Toronto Raptors Pregame Live Premiere – The Holy Grail & White Whale of NBA Contracts

Toronto Raptors Pregame Live Premiere – The Holy Grail & White Whale of NBA Contracts

You think we should tell the big guy d n he’s happy let’s let him enjoy the r look tell them when we find the Raptor see you welcome welcome welcome Raptors fans in the last video we set ourselves up to kind of take a look at trade machines

The point of this video is not to show you what I think the Raptors will do instead it’s to build off of the last video that I did talking about the different CBA rules and the power of the Bruce Brown contract to show what we

Could do if we wanted to to do this I’m using the inflated salary of Tobias Harris that’s going to be my white whale today so spoiler once I show you this trade why it works how we use the CBA to do it and what it can do for all three

Teams because there’s counter arguments that you guys have been giving me in the comments we’ll go through those at the end of the video and we’ll have some fun because as I said I’ve been playing around with some animations and learning how to do like South Park style stuff so

I hope you enjoy it at the end of the video I’m also going to show a couple of the players that you guys like as potential trade targets because we’ve been talking about how on this channel we don’t believe the hype that the Raptors are after number one picks if

Anything we’re looking to make a deal to bring in young players and expiring contracts and maybe move some of the Superfluous picks we got from the seum trade to teams that have steppan issues or like to remain really high in terms of the luxury tax and they want some

Steppy and flexibility going forward and then we’ll talk about whether Bruce Brown even needs to be traded right now because it is such a powerful tantalizing contract to competing teams and teams as we discussed in the last video that want to get below an apron or a luxury tax threshold before the summer

Of 2025 this gives them flexibility because Bruce has a team option for next year and this is on a player that can help you win so remember this video is not saying that we have to move Bruce it’s just showing the power of Bruce Brown’s contract and how it limits us

And most likely pushes us into the realm of a three- team deal so as you saw in the start of the cartoon the Sixers have dumped a contract into the river and now we go to Raptor’s HQ meanwhile in the catacombs beneath Jurassic Park a plan was being devised

You got to put the Rope under your arm under your arm but hello Mr Larry I’m I’m sincerely trying under the arm under the arm it hurts when I do that Mr there’s no way around it we’re going to have to go to San Francisco so like San

Francisco well we’re all out of jets we’ll have to take the bus and then my boat faster Bobby all right road trip Mr Larry I’ll get us some boating outfits good idea Bobby I’ll make sure the boat’s stocked Messiah you get a hold of the Warriors and tell them we’re coming

I had a private Court installed in the boat last summer Bruce can get his shots up while we’re on the way it’s this one over here gentlemen I thought you said it had a bar Mr te you’re carrying the bar Nam skull in fact pass that over we chrisen this

Puppy you just focus on getting your shots up before we get there champ we want you looking like a million bucks when we hit the bay hey I think that’s the Raptors now Stephy it sure is pass me that ball de D leave we said they meet us here keep your eyes peeled

Incoming tubular well I guess DEH made the Trap yes it was God’s plan Drake Steph and Dre told our guys that the Sixers were looking to dump contracts so our guys of course go out on a hunt to find the white whale who ends up delivering them one of the contracts but

Not before Steph swallows his mouth guard thank God for Dre magic and the maneu anyhow the white whale ends up Scooby-Doo ending being to Tobias Harris and that’s the story of how this fictitious trade came about well that’s the cartoon history anyway the real history is that I had mentioned

Mentioned in my reaction video a few hours after the seak and brown deal that our cap flexibility coupled with how good Bruce’s contract was was so crazy that we could go out and get an insanely inflated contract and potentially be buyers next year it was just a rough

Trade that I threw up but it was met with this hilarious reaction from Triple B Productions and I thought that comment was so hilarious that I decided from that moment forward it would have to serve as the template I would use for the entire trade season to show just how

Much flexibility the Raptors have and who our trade Target should be because in the OG precious trades we made it clear that the Raptors are not blowing it up it’s what I mean when I say people are out of touch when they want to blow things up it’s not what the Raptors are

Doing the seak and Brown trade is an intermediate trade whether Brown gets traded or not or something else happens is a moot point the fact is this trade tree with cakam is far from done and I don’t believe we’re looking for picks cuz we don’t have the roster spots to

Really utilize them we’re probably looking to get rid of picks in exchange for experienced NBA players with upside so this trade morphed into the next day this tweet and at this point I’m like even though it’s unlikely they move Tobias Harris from the 76ers in general

This at least showed me that you could actually come up with a scenario where it was possible where all three teams might actually consider it and it’s still fictitious like I’m not going to put on the tinf foil hat today but I have it ready and everything I’m saying

Is tin foil guys I’m not saying this trade is the one that needs to be done because even Triple B Productions is right you’re better off to go after a different white whale like the forier contract it’s why the Knicks are rumored to be talking to us because that deal is

Way less complex and far-fetched but the important part to note here is whether you go after forier or go after something crazy like Harris like this one of the Raptor’s objectives is to dump salary let me show you the other comments that came in in regards to this

One from top of top that I showed you earlier he just mentions that he wouldn’t move yak and right away I realized he was right because it takes forever to get really good centers kind of a climatized to the league to the point where the guys that do yaks type

Of job are hard to find like they tend to be older so we don’t want to necessarily train a new guy if we’re not blowing it up so I took Yak off the table and then I basically shelf it and started messing around with cartoons and

Stuff like that while I had to work and do all my normal everyday stuff as I did it I kept tinkering with the deal and last night I was commenting on a rapper’s digest video talking about how we would be seeking pics which I disagree with anyhow everyone’s naming

Their pcks in this one thread so I’m like hey I’ll throw it out and bounce it off these guys I love hearing people’s retorts to things so of course I get Giovani who comments on this Channel all the time and always has intelligent [ __ ] to say I love when all you guys comment

Because it helps me form my ideas and keep them evolving so Giovani points out hey what the heck man the the Sixers are looking to actually shed salary and that’s why they won’t move Harris this is a fantastic point if we deal with the Sixers we’re more likely to be eating

The contract of like Maris Morris or cork Moss or Covington or somebody like that than doing Tobias Aros but we already know it’s a white whale and it’s just for fun so I said to myself self is there a reason that the Sixers would still do this trade so I had to modify

The trade so here is the final trade and I think the Sixers and Golden State would consider doing this deal I think it’s a great deal for the Raptors the reason the Sixers would do this deal is they add three ring bearers and Nick nurse is their head coach and in this

Deal they add two players he loves in the form of Otto and Chris who’ve played with him before and guess what Wiggins has to and you think Nick nurse thinks Wiggins is done I think he just needs greener pastures and I think most of us know that that’s true about Andrew as

Far as we’re concerned in this trade I just picked two young players one from each team that I thought were good you could play around with that here’s my rationale Reed is Expendable if they bring in the players that we’re sending them and Wiggins so that’s makes Paul

Reed Expendable he fits our window behind Yak as that power forward uh Center that can run the court and I picked Moody as I’m sure many of you are already aware there’s a connection between Scotty Barnes and Moses Moody from Mont ver so I thought that was a

Good fit from our side but why would the Warriors do it the answer is go back to the last video to see the power of the Bruce Brown contract that’s the first thing the second thing is I’ve sweetened the pot unlike trades you’re seeing out there right now instead of me going

After picks I’m using the picks we just got to go beside Bruce Brown which we can do we can’t put players beside him but we can sweeten the pot to say hey we know you like the Bruce Brown contract and the fact that he might help you if

You manage to do well in the playin but the picks are a big deal because they’re Steppy in picks they already have picks in these two years what this does to the Warriors is allows them to drop down below the second apron in the future so they don’t get penalties that’s big next

Summer as I’ve already said and then they’ll do what they always do they will package these picks up and trade them to a team that wants to blow it up in exchange for a disgruntled star and the Warriors will be right back back in the postseason mix and I think they’re more

Investing in Trace Jackson Davis giving kaminga more playing time which Wiggins leaving does as does Moody leaving and anyone that watches dubs games knows that this is a big issue in the bay right now is they want more minutes for kaminga and more importantly kaminga wants more minutes for kaminga and

Lastly if you watch Warriors games the mentorship that is definitely going on between Steph and psky is very obvious it’s like Jedi and Padawan so I think might actually move off a guy like Moses if the deal was right and in terms of the CBA that we talked about in the last

Video this deal is Right Bruce Brown Can Only Be Moved alongside picks this is literally the potential that has okay so moving him with picks can maximize Bruce Brown whether you’re dealing with one team or two doesn’t matter three whatever this in my opinion is the problem with most of the trade proposals

I see floating around out there we’re the team that wants to make the next move that’s why they went so early with the OG trade followed up really quickly with the cakam trade so that they can get to this other trade or two before the deadline we want to make trades we

Have to entice the other teams with some honey to pull them off of players they do like they do like Moody Philly loves Paul Reed Giovani I can’t wait to hear your thoughts but I I want to go back to this I really think a guy like Nick

Nurse would see this as an improvement over to BU s Harris on their team for the playoffs this year and everyone who’s saying they can’t wait to be buyers next year is underestimating how much they want to win this year floppy Joe just got injured again guys and he’s

Expected to miss two more games at least and be re-evaluated but barwing something serious the Sixers are only 5 and a half games out of first place with lots of games left I’m telling you they like their team and they want to win so let’s say we take Toby out of the trade

Cuz it’s honestly like likely they keep them what can be done with these two teams here’s a rework for you okay now why do I suggest this one well for us it’s home runs we sweeten the pot to the warriors with picks one of them very far

Down the future when we expect to be a better team and that allows us to peel away mosus Moody we get Marcus Morris’s contract back which will expire this year and we get Melton from the Sixers and because we’ve only moved Bruce Brown to the Warriors alongside pick it’s

Legal so the Warriors get steppan Clauses they unload contracts this year in Cork MOS Covington and the option on Brown they get two picks for steppi and reasons to turn into future big players and the Sixers get three ring bearers and an improved team and once again all

Three of those players have experience with Nick nerz coaches love this stuff guys I think the Tobias trade and this trade both qualify here and it’s why I think Golden State and the Sixers are two very good trade partners with us don’t forget you could sweeten the pot

Even more we have draft C Capital if we want to to make the trades go through cuz listen Melton and Moody are not small names they would be major major fish to catch for us don’t I look at your comments in trade targets he is dialed in all right so

This part’s super fun because it comes from you guys commenting either here Twitter or in comments from other videos from other channels where I’ve run into you and we’ve had some conversations so here are some of the trades but remember the Bruce Brown checklist I’m grading these and and I’m grading these and

Determining their viability based on this playoff or play inbound teams are our trade Partners teams looking to drop an apron or below the luxury tax threshold this year or next teams with steppan needs to avoid League reviews remember just cuz they have picks doesn’t mean they’re not the type of

Team that likes to stockpile some picks and then throw them all at some rebuilding team to get a star there’s a lot of teams that want to do that and we can offer them Steppy in flexibility three team format we’ve already been through that I think it’s more viable

You can do t two team trades but I think three- team format is how we get young players and move our picks away all right so let’s start with the Eastern Conference and I will mention as we kind of go through it what you guys propos so

Here is the East remember the reds are teams I don’t feel are good partners either they don’t have assets that we want or the assets we would want are needed by them to make a playoff run okay so in the East I feel like the Bucks and the Celtics kind of meet that

Description Philly we’ve already been through so the guys we’re interested in on Philly you guys have mentioned Melton you guys mentioned Paul Reed and Jaden Springer I think those are all good targets I will say this morning I saw a Wars Report video talking about Philly

As a trade partner and the potential for the Tobias Harris contract which is crazy I haven’t watched this video yet I can’t wait to see it I got to get this one up but I’ve already been through like it’s very unlikely they would want

To move Toby but it I can’t wait to see War’s take on that and I do and as I said I think they’re a great partner next we got the Cavs you guys have mentioned a Coro I think he’s a really getable guy and they would be interested

In depth at guard they’ve had issues with injuries at the guard position all year and they very much would love a guy like Bruce Brown and they want to be going for it so in this trade we even have Markin and mocked going to them to

Improve them now then the Jazz next and then us Nicks are a very interesting trade partner last night there was a conversation regarding the Knicks in the chat on warch report regarding another video he did and Giovani I think quite astutely pointed out that the Knicks see overlap between Bruce Brown and Josh

Hart and I actually think that’s reasonable so I don’t know that they’re a target for Bruce brown but I think they are interested in other players that we have the Heat and the Pacers I would list the Pacers as green before our trade but now that that trade’s gone

Through I would say no I don’t think they have pieces that we can facilitate I mean unless the heat are willing to move off a guy like haime hawz and that’s just not going to happen he’s right where they need them folz you guys have talked about he’s an expiring

Contract this year he’s very interesting to me from the birght standpoint if you can get him to test his market value and we get a discount on him from where he’s at now he’s I think he’s around 17 mil I like that and we see the 9905 experimenting with four guard lineups

That include two slasher guards folz is a Defender he’s got great sides and he is a slasher guard I think folz is a great fit if we see the rppers going in the same direction as the 905 are tinkering and that often does happen uh the other guy that you guys mentioned

Here was Gary Harris good fit but I think the magic like him and wend Carter Jr wend Carter Jr I don’t think anybody’s going to get from the magic he remember how everyone talked about OG’s contract being so amazing for the team team wend Carter Jr at this point is one

Of the best stretch bigs in the league he accepts his role and he is literally on one of the best contracts in the NBA there’s no way we peel that away from Jeff Wiman in my opinion the Bulls are interesting I think this the overlap between Demar and Zack LaVine is very

Apparent to them at this point they have other guards and next year they’ll have Lonzo coming back so I think the Bulls could could happen because they have Pat Williams as you guys have mentioned and IO as good trade targets so there you go Bulls Could Happen Hawks I’m going to

Move the Bo to red or yellow I just don’t see it they have players I like okay like aong Wu and and even bonovich or something like that but I just don’t see them as a good trade partner there there’s a lot of times where you just

Have the same things and you’re looking for the same stuff at the same time it doesn’t mean they don’t have guys I like okay I just don’t see him as a a viable trade partner one of the best trade proposals that I saw that brought the Bruce Brown checklist into play was one

By MJ and it involved the Lakers and the Nets and it went for and it went for a home run look at this trade guys so I thought maybe the only tweak would be that the Lakers would want to keep Gabe vinsent for a playoff run because of

What he did with Miami and that was why they kind of spent the money on him so I don’t know that they would move gab so here’s kind of like an amendment to MJ’s trade but both of these are great trades and they take into account the brown

Checklist I love the Home Run swing by MJ here it’s really cool it just shows you like the Harris white whale stuff that I showed you that you could literally be trying to hit home runs this year the bottom three teams here are interesting we know Detroit is interested in inspiring contracts this

Year and they could be used to help facilitate stuff same thing was Charlotte they move moved to get Kao off the books and move Rosier and Washington Washington’s window looks like 2 years from now so we know this from the Detroit and Washington trade that sent baggley over there Washington will

Probably look to expire contract contracts next year not this year so they’re looking for two-year terms so like the for contract you could see them swap with the Luke Canard contract from Memphis which takes us to the Western Conference and of course we would rather deal with Western Conference teams if

We’re going to be improving those teams the t-wolves you guys have mentioned to me they have great players guys but just like OKC and Sacramento I would list and even the Jazz I would say they want most of the players that are on their team for playoff pushes this year they don’t

Have a lot of like movable Parts because they’re using the guys that we would be interested in the nuggets and the Clippers I just don’t see now I just got now I just got to watch Colin Gillespie up close and that’s a real freaking good Target they also have Watson they have

Guys you could move for I just think they really like them and they don’t lack death but you guys have pointed out they definitely be interested in Bruce Brown back I just see it hard to come up with the money to match it but if you

Moved in a third team it could become a viability there and Gillespie I think could play in the NBA right now for us at least he’s a very good player Mavericks I mocked a couple trades where ran Holmes gets moved cuz they could use that seller to move around but this one

Uses the Rockets and the rockets already went and moved the Ola Depot contract to upgrade their team and you guys quite rightly targeted omx in your trades that you mocked I love omx I got to see him this year he’s very good young player and obviously Canadian I also like Jaden

Hardy from there any guard that’s built like a bowling ball and has been under Jason kid for a couple Seasons I’m super interested in and Suns for different reasons they’re red here the Suns just don’t have anything I’m interested in and they have terrible flexibility with their contracts if you go down our

Roster you got contracts of every value so you can make trades work the Suns have [ __ ] guys they’ve got like nothing they can really do and they have no picks I honestly feel like the leagues should have stepped in and triggered the steppan rule with the Suns ages ago

Golden State one of the best trade partners for us because they will be seeking to lower their T they want to drop their salary and by next summer so they are a great trade partner for us the bottom three teams are kind of like the bottom three teams from the East

Because these are all teams that want the same things as us and so they might come in as a third team but I don’t see them as viable direct trade Partners okay unless you’re looking for like the Luke Canard contract from Memphis to get off your books the thing is they already

Signaled their looking to do that themselves all right that was a lot so thank you so much for your comments guys that really helped me sift through the league and take a look at what I thought was viable obviously as I said it’s all tinfoil hats all the time when you’re

Doing this stuff but I think with this checklist and a mindset that says we need to sweeten the pot instead of expecting things back for trading our guys all the time we want young players we have to give stuff up to do it and what we have to give them is the stuff

On this list we can sweeten the pots and actually facilitate like spur trades to happen okay I got two videos in the pipeline the first is going to be one that brings up this notion that we can’t attract free agents and we’re going to

Take a look at the concept that I use in coaching and coaching my kids raising my kids as a parent self-efficacy and we’re going to talk about how that’s relevant for the upcoming summer and what the Raptor’s strategy should be in terms of do we go into the summer with free agent

Dollars the second one is revisiting the Lambs so on my channel the long arm monsters were everyone’s Vision 69 I didn’t see it as a height thing I saw it as like a length disruption thing depending on the position and I think it’s timely to revisit that lastly we

Got two housekeeping issues shout out to Mr New York City who’s been great at the g-league this year he’s been a pleasure to watch and he remains the embodyment of how we can approach the era of the wemes in the chats the David Goliath Mr New York City has been named to the

G-league allstar game and no Blake Murphy just because I say he’s being load managed does not mean I think he’s faking in injury and then of course Mark Gasol who is one of the best trades ever made to change the fortunes of a playoff

Team in the history of the NBA he is has officially retired my daughter remembers being sprayed with champagne by him and I love that that is a lasting memory for her shout out to mark So guys remember it’s all about the Larry’s take care of each other be well give love have fun

And remember patience because we can’t always get what we want but if you try sometimes you just might find well Mick You he yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah [Applause] this is just kiss Thank you like to take a b to the KF youth choirs they they come a long way to be with us tonight they drove all the way thank you so much everyone thank you

With all the Toronto Raptors Trade Rumours going around we continue our exploration of just how flexible the Raptors have made themselves witg via their 3 trades thus far. We dawn our tinfoil hats as we set out to hunt the Holy Grail & White Whale of NBA Contracts.
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