This Bruce Brown Trade Could Happen Sooner Than You Think

This Bruce Brown Trade Could Happen Sooner Than You Think

previously I’ve spoken about Bruce Brown and how there could be difficulties in trading him at the offseason and that could still be the case but some of the latest report suggest otherwise and that Bruce Brown could be traded a lot sooner than we might [Music] think we are back at it again on amateur R Eclipse where we continue to provide you with Toronto Raptor’s news coverage and Analysis but over on this channel we take the best highlight and segments from the main channel amatear sports where we do live streams covering the Raptors even further and put them on this channel to make it a whole lot easier for you to consume the content if you like what you see from this video today make sure you are subscribed to the channel because we’re always dropping content over here that you’re not going to want to miss out on especially if you are a Toronto Raptors fan and also along the way it really does support the channel if you smash that like button now let’s get back to the video and when I say a lot sooner than we might think I also say a lot sooner than I’m think I I very much thought that it would be difficult for the Raptors to make any move with Bruce Brown in the offseason it just be difficult to do I I didn’t rule it out I didn’t say it’d be impossible but it seems like bringing Bruce Brown back and then looking towards a trade maybe closer towards a trade deadline is the more likely Avenue for the Raptor to pursue with the forward who wasn’t his best when he arrived with the team but I I will maintain and I I see some some stuff in the chat here saying Bruce Brown isn’t good like what are you actually going to be able to get for Bruce brown but Bruce Bruce Brown at least according to himself was dealing with an injury and even if he wasn’t and he wasn’t playing that well for the Raptors as well as maybe we would we would have wanted and would have expected everyone knows who Bruce Brown is everyone knows how good he is especially after you know his role in the Denver Nuggets winning the NBA championship in 2023 and perhaps you know having a player like that coming off the bench would have allowed them to progress even further in 2024 But ultimately they were priced out by a very lucrative offer by the Indiana Pacers is about $21 million with I think it was I think it was 22 actually with a $23 million team option for next season and that team option I thought like there’s just there’s just no way the Indiana Pacers are going to pick this up there’s just no way after one year like I I love Bruce Brown I like him as a player but there’s no way a team is going to pay him $23 million well all of a sudden the rout is could be that team has to pick up the $23 million contract because 23 is a good number to trade it’s not a crippling number as far as trades are concerned so picking that up for the Raptors give them the option to move him and according to the Toronto Star the Raptors are preparing to trade Bruce Brown this off season the Nixon Lakers could be teams that look to pick the player up but there was going to be plenty of contenders willing to offer a first round pick to make this trade happen and again this comes from the Toronto Star and it’s interesting looking at this article here here because I’ve always maintained people know who Bruce Brown is there were going to be offers for Bruce brown but so many Raptors fans became almost afraid and frightened and and almost enraged by the trade that went down to bring Bruce Brown to the team by the way the trade wasn’t for Bruce Brown to come to Toronto the trade was sending seak to the Pacers for picks and we needed to match salary somehow well in comes Bruce Brown who makes probably a little bit more money than he should be making that balance of the salaries to make the seak trade possible bringing Bruce Brown to the Raptors so it’s not like the Raptors were like in a crippling spot by having Bruce Brown on their team but there was a people who there were people who were enraged thinking we’ve absolutely tanked Bruce Brown’s trade value we’re never going to be able to trade and we’ll be lucky to get a second round pick and I thought no contenders know who he is and they’re going to be willing to offer a first round pick and the Raptors what delayed this trade and why didn’t happen at the deadline and you know they can still trade him now so it’s fine but they didn’t trade him at the deadline they want a 2025 pick not a 2024 pick all that people were willing to offer were 2024 picks well now it’s impossible to offer up a 2024 pick because we’re going to wait until after the draft is done in order to make this trade and the Raptors are eyeing a pick for the 2024 draft and once again according to Doug Smith who is well connected with the Raptors expect plenty of contenders willing to offer their first round pick for brown and the 2025 draft as We Know it’s likely to be a lot stronger than the 2024 class so the Raptors understood they had time on the side understood they had the possibility of flexibility with this contract and now we’ll have the opportunity to move Bruce Brown and pick up a first round pick so this is an interesting one because I certainly would not have expected a trade to go down this summer and I’d say I’m not I’m going to go back to my point and say at this point I would be I would have the expectation that Bruce Brown now is is going to get trade in the summer if they’re pursuing it but a lot of the initial reports suggested that the Raptors are going to be pursuing a Bruce Brown trade in the offseason they’re going to be they they are going to be pursuing a trade but like yeah obviously they’re going to be pursuing a trade they’re going to try and make one happen but there’s not going to be a significant rush to do so and in the end you know if if the Raptors want to continue to kind of hold their cards close to their chest and play this one out as long as possible this could be a trade that ends up getting delayed a little bit longer as well but again with the new found reports with the aggression towards making a trade with the aggression towards you know setting up your core for the season knowing what’s in place having people you know want to be here and having players that are here that you want to have here as well I understand wanting to push for a trade to happen and I think the Raptors have benefited from results in the playoffs the Lakers getting the nuggets in the first round was great because the Lakers weren’t better than the Nuggets they they could have be maybe any other team but they couldn’t beat the Nuggets so from the Lakers perspective they’re thinking they underachieve I think the Lakers could have gone further had they not run into the Nuggets but in their eyes they underachieved and now are looking to make a fix perhaps Bruce Brown looking at him could be part of that fix look at the New York Knicks running out of gas in the second round had they been the conridge finals are they as aggressive potentially and trying to make a deal here for Bruce Brown who knows maybe not so once again I think the Raptors have profited a little bit by some of the results in the playoffs as far as a Bruce Brown trade is concerned so I I I can see the Raptors trying to move on from him in the off season and I think that also what is a big reason why they want to push for this want to push for this trade now is to not be paying that $23 million to Bruce Brown specifically because they want to focus their financial side of things well they have to worry about Emanuel quickley they will eventually have to worry about Scotty Barnes but they also want to worry about a certain Gary Trent Jr he’s coming off of an $18 million contract 8 half million dollar contract uh player option that was taken this season he’s an unrestricted free agent getting Bruce Brown off the books is going to give the Raptors an opportunity to free up the flexibility to bring back Gary Trent so I think a lot of what these rumors sort of suggest number one the Raptors want to solidify their Ross for this upcoming season but a lot of it as well is going to be hey we have a priority to bring back Gary Trent Jr it becomes a whole lot easier by getting rid of Bruce Brown getting rid of that contract and focusing on resigning Gary Trent Jr bringing him back to the team because he had a positive end of the season and if Gary Trent kind of accepts a I’ll I’ll put it in a you as a sort of youthemism say a more specific role then I I I think that there could be a great relationship long term between Gary Trent Jr and the Toronto Raptors especially with the player seemingly like he enjoys playing for the Raptors he enjoys playing for Toronto he just enjoys it here he enjoys playing in the Eastern Conference so with all that in mind with all that being said this is a probably a smart move by the Raptors to try and move Bruce brown right at the start of for agency closer to the NBA draft getting a pick for next season rather than this season getting a 2025 first round pick rather than a 2024 first round pick and with all these things considered as far as Bruce Brown is concerned uh it it’s easy to want it to happen but perhaps it’s a little bit easier said than done it’s still a big contract it’s still going to be maybe difficult for a team to try and Max the salaries there but maybe it’s going to be easier now than it would be close to the deadline regardless if a trade doesn’t happen this summer in this offseason we know teams are willing to give a first for him we know teams are interested and again the Raptors can Main maintain that flexibility and we still be able to trade him up towards that 2025 trade deadline so look the hope for Raptor fans I agree is to trade him as soon as possible if we got to wait not the end of the world something good can still go down for this team

The Toronto Raptors acquired Bruce Brown in the Pascal Siakam blockbuster trade. Raptors fans really did not know how to feel about getting Bruce Brown but he seems to be a usable moving piece in an upcoming trade. After winning the 2023 championship with the Denver Nuggets, Brown has not had the same hype around him since.

What do you think we can get for Bruce Brown? Do we try and make him work in our system?

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