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Originally Posted by octothorp
Not sure which way the Raptors are going in the offseason now. None of Lowry's preferred destinations will have cap space to sign him. Raptors won't have any cap space if they don't renounce him. Sign-and-trades are really tough to pull off and rare in the NBA (I don't remember all the rules but one of them is that the receiving team is hard-capped).
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If I were to completely guess what happened was that teams simply lowballed the
Having a well known fleecer as a President will do that as nobody wants to lose in the public’s eye. So the Raps stuck to their guns even if it meant losing an asset as in the future teams will know the Raps are willing to do this. The fault to me wasn’t at all on the Raps. They simply didn’t want him enough. Wouldn’t surprise me if Lowry signs on for another year and we do this all again a year from now. It’s not ideal for a guy like Flynn, but hey, it’s just a year. Perhaps by December the Raps may get a piece that can step in and develop.