The Raptors re-sign Garrett Temple + Free Agency News
what’s going on our third free agency live I have not checked my phone for the last 30 minutes so you’ll forgive me if something major has happened we will break it down together but last out checked Klay Thompson is off the market he is going to Dallas and last that check the Tron Raptors are still dragging their feet very interesting interview give credit where credit is due Jake fiser gets on with hello and welcome will Lou talking about what the Raptors could have done potentially what they wanted to do and he dropped an interesting t bit Bruce Brown ex best to be traded I believe he would not say that unless that was in fact true and that he had heard something from Bruce Brown’s agent I believe also that Bruce Brown expects to be traded so what were the Raptors looking to get for Bruce Brown allegedly allegedly the Raptors were targeting Patrick Williams and again I’m not a big Patrick Williams fan but at the contract he signed I would have understood it completely um kushaw saying as constructed RS have eight guys under 6’6 yeah um to those of you thinking the Raptors are done I don’t think they’re done but a major major potential you know guy that I wanted for the Raptors was DeAnthony Melton and he just signed with the warriors on a one-year deal so the options are drying up and the Raptors are kind of just stuck another thing that I thought was very interesting what Jake Fischer said was that the Raptor had offers for yaka purle but in typical Raptor fashion the asking price was very high now it’s nice to know that the Tron Raptors value their assets but where have I heard this asking price was High stuff before Pascal sakam ogn and Obi pretty much every single player in Raptor history has been overvalued by the Raptors and undervalued by everybody else is everyone wrong or the Raptors just like to overvalue their own [ __ ] I think they like to overvalue their own [ __ ] because Isaiah hartstein is a younger player and allegedly although some people rumored that you know the the deal was so horrible or whatever it is in fact a team option on that final deal and it is a descending deal which means that as those extensions for jdub and Chad homin potentially kick in in that final year the r the Oklahoma City Thunder had bought themselves an increasing amount of flexibility with that flip it I believe the Raptors gave yako a flat contract which is fully guaranteed for all four years so actually in my opinion the Raptors paid more for for yako purle than the Oklahoma City Thunder a small Market team play paid for y uh for Isaiah hardstein you can you can squabble over what 27 million is versus 19 million whatever that’s irrelevant that fourth year is tremendous and frontloading that contract is also tremendous so let us go into Twitter Spear and break down the current trades actually there’s a better way to do this and that is through spot trck so let’s just go in terms of free agents let’s go to transactions and let’s figure it out who did what when and let’s see here give me one sec spot track transactions okay so put that on here we are okay bro what okay transactions what am I not seeing here transactions oh here we go all transactions so here we go so here are the deals that have been finalized since we last spoke that would be Drew Eubanks was the last contract that was really signed when we last spoke a few hours ago since then we’ve had a Luca Garza extension terms of that were not announced so I’m assuming if they’re not bragging about it it’s probably less than three million a year Derek white is very interesting four years $126 million that’s a shade under annual average what Emanuel quickley got and a lot of people are saying well you know that’s like 3 and a half million Derek White’s older he’s also a lot better so again the rap paid for upside and I hope they get it Del wri with a minimum contract to Milwaukee is a great get if he can stay healthy that’s a great contract for Milwaukee De Anthony Melton one year bet on yourself contract with golden state could the Raptors have beaten That Couldn’t the Raptors have beaten that could the Raptors have given him three years I think he fits man I think he’s a fantastic young player I think they got they got a steal for him but what’s the long term I’m not sure but I mean maybe he didn’t want maybe he didn’t want that maybe he just wants to step into the Klay Thompson vacancy and kind of you know increase his value for next year so maybe that’s what he was looking for he was looking for a proven contract and maybe the Raptors couldn’t compete with that and maybe at that point locking him in to 15 million a year for three years wouldn’t have made as much sense to him as a bet on yourself contract but I’ll tell you a player who takes a one-year deal like this is usually usually positioning himself for a much longer term te longer term deal and usually those players while it’s risky to to you know kind of ward off that inst you know the stability of a long-term contract I do trust that he will absolutely get a bag next summer Aaron holiday two years 10 million good deal good deal for the for the Rockets uh very intelligent Nicholas Batum two years $9.6 million with the LA Clippers um I understand what they’re doing in terms of like trying to replace some of their depth but this is not great um I think he’s he’s passed his Prime and he should be signing minimum contracts at this point in my opinion and Klay Thompson three years $50 million to Golden State Warriors which opens up the place for LeBron James demard Rosen and the Lakers right now I believe that the Lakers are holding up free agency because what they do is going to dictate what everyone else does and that’s just the way free agency always works if you remember last year Fred Van held up the contracts of Dennis Schroeder and Gabe Vincent and right now we are seeing you know Klay Thompson was holding up the contracts of a lot of players I think Klay Thompson was a domino that needed to fall Lakers know they can’t get Klay Thompson now perfect I think the Mavericks I think the Mavericks overpaid personally and it’s a signning trade and they got rid of Josh Green as part of that deal I really like Josh green and sending Josh Green to Charlotte when he was so instrumental for you as a role player in the finals to me it’s like I understand what you’re doing here you’re trying to pair you know Klay Thompson as this like threat but the idea of Klay Thompson returning to past glory to me is just it’s over uh you know I think Josh Green is GNA have a really bright future and if if the Charlotte Hornets don’t know what they’re doing with Josh Green I would love to get my hands on him because I think that could be a that could be a really interesting player for the Raptors um let’s check where we at free agents 2024 free agents okay so in terms of what is still available out there these ads are merciless LeBron James Remains The Big Fish he’s still available he’s obviously not available he’s just just waiting to see how much he’s going to he’s going to sign for with the Los Angeles Lakers right you have Gordon Hayward who I think at this point at the age of 34 may be in line for a $3 million $5 million type of deal I’d be very surprised if he gets more than that there a bunch of teams that still have their midlevel right uh you got Kyle Lowry again probably a minimum guy at this point at the age of 38 who is the first young guy that’s available it’s Gary Trent Jr Marquel folz Mal Beasley tus Jones if you consider him young he’s 28 if we sort this by age in terms of the guys who are available and just have a cut off in the Raptor’s range of hey they want to they want to sign guys under 28 you got Ty 28 and under you got Jordan mclin tus Jones Luke Canard Shake Milton Dylan Windler Malik Beasley Hayward heith some insight from Jake fiser on Hayward heith as well as Caleb Martin Caleb Martin allegedly was looking for you know somewhere close to 20 million 20 plus million dollars he don’t want to go back to the heat he’ll probably have to go back to the heat but maybe some team is going to come but the teams with cap space are shrinking by the second and now it’s just going to be okay for all of these guys who’s going to settle for the mid-level exception right who’s going to set set settle for half and whereas in years past I feel like teams would have been very willing to give a full mid-level just willy-nilly twoyear threeyear type of deal we’re seeing now that there’s a little bit of trepidation because something interesting that Jake fiser talked about which I think is something that I was really missing in this entire equation which I mean I really suggest anyone to check out that interview it was really it was uh pretty informative was that teams don’t want to dip into the second apron three out of five years so they’re looking at these short-term contracts as means to get out of it which is interesting because you look at the Raptors and how they’re positioning themselves with contracts like Sasha venkov and Bruce Brown in now multiple years you’re constantly giving yourself this leverage of flexibility and obviously the flexibility you own is flexibility you can then trade um are any of these names sticking out to me Mo Vagner is a name that sticks out to me as a player that I think could fit what the Raptors need Jeff dton if he will if he’s willing to come in on a minimum I think he’ll give you Jeff Dalton’s a better player right now than Davon Mitchell just can I say that without triggering some people miles Bridges will not be a Toronto Raptor Marquel FZ would be a very interesting get for the Toronto Raptors Malachi Flynn is probably not going to be in the NBA next year Oshea brette could be an option for the Raptors I just would like the Raptors to go for something they don’t really have on their roster right now Josh aogi as a sort of rebound heavy type of guard um who has positional versatility sort of fits the Raptor mold of how they like to play Gary Trent rumors are reports are the Raptors are moving on from Gary Trent sadique Bay again the injury complicates things but if you’re not injured I could see the Raptors making this precious auua allegedly you know with Isaiah hardenstein moving on to the New York you know from the New York Knicks I think they should bring him back they’re already familiar with him he’s one of weirdly enough the best bigs left on the market right now and that is really just that is an indictment of how bad this draft is sorry this free agency classes I mean if you think about it we have followed up one of the worst drafts in NBA history with one of the worst free agency class in NBA history and basically every single guy in this free agency class was terrible or old right so really the value guys and the value guys are taking short-term deals so really if the free agency class is terrible and the draft is pretty terrible especially the lottery of the draft where you’re going to find Value is trades and I think that the Raptors are really setting themselves up 4 one but they’re really dragging their feet here I mean it has been a full 23 hours in 40 minutes since free 20 minutes since 40 minutes since free agency broke 20 minutes since free agency opened so we’re going on 24 hours and we will keep this live open until about 6 615 630 and we’ll see if something breaks at the 24hour mark it would be really interesting um Jerome Samuel saying how do you figure Jeff is better than Davon well for starters they’re roughly the same age and analytically speaking at least and watching them play Jeff is just a more complete basketball player offensively I think he’s better um you can make a case that Davon might be the better point of attack Defender but Jeff has no slouch as a point of attack Defender he’s just a I think he’s a better table setter I think he’s a better playmaker I think he’s just a he’s just very low usage I think Jeff thon’s biggest problem is that he’s super low usage and he doesn’t do that he didn’t do some of that paint penetration stuff but it’s as as he just he’s a weird player to sort of fit into your roster but he’s also paid less um yeah I think the Raptor should stamp Pat and just focus on internal development um I don’t think so man um derp saying boban or bust I would love to bring on boban he’d be great be awesome Paul B saying an ad blocker extension would have come in handy yes it would have um okay I mean James wisman as the ultimate hailman let’s develop a big and see what’s left but I’m just not for it I know he’s 23 years old but I’ve seen enough at this point Tai Tai Washington would be a very interesting player I I’m not sure how I feel about Tai Tai and desan Knicks but just looking at some young players that I do like right um overall players that I would take a swing at right you could really look at a guy like Usman garuba a player that I did like in the draft cycle but I’m not really sure of right now Musa diabate right will the Clippers bring him back he’s athletic he’s very long it’s type of raptors he Prospect you know that the Raptors might want to take a chance on on a two-way or again this is going to be really just end of roster stuff right um Dean Nicks is a guy that I really like now I understand he has all sorts of you know warts and stuff but if you’re looking for a culture Builder you’re looking for a team guy that’s just going to come in and you know compete for minutes as a backup point guard it’s just you already have three point guards who are not really ready to play in the NBA right now so I I feel like you already parked your development point guard sits at the end of the roster doesn’t do much but pray you know prey I feel like you already have that player so the Raptor’s real like goal right now is getting a real upgrade at the point guard spot and I feel like as much as d right would have been you know something I think they really want to play some of these guys so they want to probably play Davon Mitchell if they’re not trading him they want they probably want to play you know they haven’t even announced that Davon trade yet so they probably want to play you know some of these older rookies that they got like Jonathan mobo and um Jamal shed I think they want to play these guys and I they want to play them early and then you know if they fail they fail and they go down to the G league but I think they would look to probably play these guys Dennis Smith Jr I’m not really sure where I’m at with him right now but um could be an interesting get for the Raptors as a let’s see what we can get out of it Vlad Co conar from the Denver Nuggets is another guy that I think has been high on my radar at times it’s just again you have so many what what Matt saying they have announced the trade what trade oh the Davon trade did they announce it like did they make it official as in if I went to raptors.com with Deon Mitchell Sasha venkov and you know those draft picks would they would they all be Raptors that’s what I’m trying to understand here because I’m trying to look at like let me let me see here um okay wow what the get out of my [ __ ] what the hell is going on here Olympic break dance get off my screen man okay so overall where are we at here with these players so Gary Trent Jr until they renounce him is still a cap hold of 27 they haven’t renounced it yet I guess these ads are Relentless like truly Relentless um Will Barton will okay so I mean in terms of where we’re at right now obviously jacobe Walter is getting signed Jordan wara would yall want to bring Jordan wara back do you see enough okay where are we at here okay so how many how many roster spots the Raptors have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 hold on let me double check that 2 three four five six 7 8 9 10 11 12 so I’m not entirely sure Javon Freeman Liberty is going to be on the team next year I understand he’s under contract right now but I have I have have doubts I’m not sure Chris bue and Bruce Brown are going to be on this on this team next year so among the players that I expect to be really on this team next year you have like I’m going to say locks these guys expect them to be there unless something happens one two three four so IQ RJ Kelly that’s three Scotty that’s four Sasha that’s five Grady that’s six Will Barton that’s seven Jordan War that’s eight Jamal shed that’s nine those are the people that I’m like that’s nine players I know will be there you could say likely to be there as oai that’s 10 Davon that’s 11 that’s say Sasha venko that’s 12 right yaka purle that’s 13 so yeah there’s a world in which you could say the Raptors could St pad do absolutely nothing I do not want Will Barton did I say Will Barton or is Will Barton on the yeah we have will Barton’s cap hold until he signs with another team I guess I don’t know why that’s on our books but it is according to spot track um yeah I’m just I cannot imagine a world in which the Raptors have this roster going forward it doesn’t make sense who’s your backup big who’s your center right now like look at your depth chart right now who is your Center you have yaka purle Kelly linic I guess behind that you could say you have Chris bue slash you would have who else okay you have URI sham okay your guard rotation hold on let me see if they have a depth chart let me see positionally okay so in terms of guards on the roster I think this is a better way to think think about it anyway Emanuel quickley RJ Barrett Bruce Brown Davon Mitchell Grady dick are you happy with that guard rotation I think you’re missing a deao backup point guard so DJ carton obviously gets bounced for Jamal shed and then you add you add jacobe Walters to this is that a sufficient guard rotation are you happy going into the season with that as your guard rotation then your forward rotation is Scotty Barnes Kelly olenic oaji Sasa venkov Sasha venkov and Chris bue and your Center is yaka purle and I guess you would put URI shamsh on there I think Kelly is more of a power forward I think it was really weird for the Raptors to play him defensively at Center so I think the Raptors really have three needs right now if they can now if they choose to ignore one of these needs for to give Grady and jacobe Walter minutes which is like the backup shooting guard okay let’s ignore that the Raptors need a real backup center who can block some shots so I understand why some people were really anxy about ansy about jayen Smith and they need a real backup point guard who can table set for you which is why I think we should be looking at tus Jones apart from that I’m not really sure what’s left for the Raptors um Brandon Carson might get some minutes of the five yep uh Eve Mei would have been nice yep the front court is soft as [ __ ] one injury and it all collapses again I agree so hold on H JMT Holdings saying Raptors not looking to improve the roster this year focus on the 2025 draft and only looking for draft picks and bottoming out I don’t think you’re right I think you may have said something similar to this before I appreciate the super chat um but I don’t think you’re right I think the Raptors are looking for okay this is exactly it yes this is exactly it what what about going after Dron I think Dron sharp would be the play here and I think it would be really smart now one thing we haven’t talked about on this show which we definitely should is the possibility of getting Brooklyn helping Brooklyn to bottom out now this is a deal that makes a lot of sense on paper and in general it moves Scotty away in theory from that power forward position which I never want to see him play how would yall feel about about Dron sharp and cam Johnson right for Bruce Brown and a heavily protected first round pick how would you feel about it when I say heavily protected I mean like top 15 protected which like for five years is top 15 protected that kind of like it would be a heavily protected first it would be a w yes you saying Hell no yes take it and run so the only issue downside would be Cameron Johnson is a little injury prone he’s a really good player but he is 28 years old does that make us good it certainly doesn’t make you bad who is Don Dron sharp well clutch Tatum how you gonna say hell no if you don’t even know who the player [ __ ] is he’s a really good Young Center I think he’s got some good athletic upside he was a first round pick in Scotty’s draft he is a former Scotty Barnes teammates you would be actually reuniting quite a few Scotty teammates with this so here’s my is Cam Johnson a good defender or starter worthy actually he is both a good Defender and starter worthy and let’s figure out that hold on one second let me show you who cam Johnson is per crafted so this is Cameron Johnson in a nutshell take a look at his Advanced numbers over the years he has literally never had a negative value of a replacement ever he has a really solid versatility index although it went down last year I don’t judge last year too much I think last year was a tough year but in terms of games played I think you could probably say he’s been a little injured prone rookie year 57 then 60 then 66 then 42 then 58 it’s one thing when he’s your player it’s another thing when he’s another team’s player when he’s another team’s player he looks really injury-prone it’s another thing when he’s not your player and I would tell you he’s about his injury prone as OG an anobi which probably makes it feel a little bit better his three-point attempt trade is madness and he is a really good three-point shooter the last three years Cameron Johnson has shot 42% 40% and 39% from he is a lights out shooter with an effortless stroke he’s a great free throw shooter he is a very good Defender although I think last year was one of his worst defensive years according to crafted his worst skill is free throw attempt rate he does not get to the line but his shot quality is the 90th percenti his three-point attempt rate not just for Bigs but just for NBA players in general is 57% so that’s a 76 percentile he takes a ton of Threes he’s not going to do a lot of dribble creation but he is a great play finisher he is like the perfected version with defense of Sasha venkov and a perfect pairing synergistically for Scotty Barnes this should be the Raptor’s Target and he’s a pretty good defensive re rebounder and a pretty good and according to this a really good uh Defender at The Rim holding opponents to negative 7% based off of what they’re specifically he doesn’t get there enough he’s not a big shot blocker his versatility index is in the 79 69th percentile which puts him right around the range of precious auua as a Defender he’s just better as a Defender he’s not as point of attack dominant as precious but as a Team Defender he is Elite Cameron Johnson is the type of player that helps you win in spades how would I describe him to a person who’s never watched him play he’s a little bit like the Fred Van vet of power forwards in that he doesn’t like he’s worse obviously but like it’s it’s not obvious what he does but he’s really good at everything that you don’t pay attention to it’s not going to be too flashy it’s not gonna be he’s notna be dunking on guys or whatever but Cameron Johnson is a really good player he’s also got great positional versatility he can play three four and he can probably even play five a little bit hear me out no um too late for a center no and and Dron sharp is you know no slouch either hold on let me let me check out uh let me let me let me pull up Dron Sharp’s splits here and then we’ll go back to monitoring free agency here so this is dayon sharp crafted again he is 6’9 265 lbs he is a center with Center size okay and in terms of is he getting better yeah last year was his best year in terms of valueable replacement this is exactly the type of progression you would like to see from a player he’s clearly a hard worker really good kid and you have a player on your team who knows him really well this was also last year was his first year with a not negative box plus minus this is a really good sign if prior to the age of 23 you can get that box to box was minus to zero that’s a really good indication he is efficient around the rim shooting nearly 60% true shooting which is great he gets to the line like a beast 92 percentile he’s an offensive rebounding Maniac um you know at a 6.4% like that’s insane uh 998th percentile offensive rebounder so overall although he has significant limitations he doesn’t take a ton of Threes he don’t make a ton of Threes his shot quality is poor because he’s probably taking a lot of contested twos he makes a lot of tough shots and honestly it’s good I mean he has a sufficient passer rating overall defensively I mean the vers is not great but that’s largely scheme related I have seen him switch out and not be terrible at it so I mean as a rebounder he’s just Elite as a rim Defender and rim frequency Rim frequency is not great but yeah 65th percentile defensive player and 69th percentile offensive player at his age is a very very very good thing to give up something for um so if it was multiple seconds sign me up um it would be really far out it would be a really really really far out type of play uh saon saying undersiz Center though he’s 265 pounds with a s foot wingspan and he offensive rebounds like a beast he takes up a lot of space you have to watch him play he’s pretty athletic too so he’s got like that little bit of vert uh he would work really well off of Scotty I remember watching a lot of m games where Scotty was just beasting with the with the alley oops to him so I think that you would be doing a great service to yourself by getting dayon sharp another guy that I really like on that roster is DQ Whitehead if you’re a little bit anxious about giving up you know first round picks and you want some young Talent back in the door I wouldn’t mind throwing Davon Mitchell into that deal as well with Bruce Brown sweetening it with a 2028 first round pick top 15 protected yeah it handicaps you a little bit but unless you believe the Tron Raptors are ever going to do one of those all-in pushes doesn’t really matter alz saying 69 when dudes are 76 now who’s 76 nobody’s 76 wbi is 75 you deal with them once a year and Zak I mean bro they’re both in the west you play them four times a year are you really going to prepare your entire roster for that um that’s not how the draft works I’m not really sure who you’re talking to there but yeah so yeah so I would definitely trade for these two young players they’re two of and and man if I can get them to throw in DQ whad into that that would be just great um you know pretty athletic really highly ranked hasn’t worked out so far but maybe um okay let’s go back to Twitter and see what is up with W let’s see if anything else is broken in the meanwhile um so yes I mean Klay Thompson choosing Dallas over Los Angeles is very interesting to me did he trust that Jason kid would have a better plan for him than JJ reic that’s very interesting or does he know what some of us May ECT which is that the Los Angeles Lakers is about to be a horse and pony show and what he was going to be is a scape scapegoat for that right that would be very interesting in terms of centers Goa bati and om y are probably really good stop Gap Solutions I’m looking at Foundation pieces right now that’s why I’m suggesting dayon chart I’m saying that’s a foundational piece right Detroit had the fifth pick three years in a row with the worst record that would never happen right hang on is that true three years in a row no way I know it’s two years in a row I don’t is it three years in a row let’s think about this here assar Thompson Ron Holland Jaden Ivy holy [ __ ] you’re right it was three years in a row wow you’re right it was three years in a row that’s tough no he didn’t mean three out of four years cuz the year before that they got the number one pick with Kate Cunningham have they literally been the worst team every year though that’s the question Manny crypto saying I’m going to ask to lend me $100 what P Pistons are poverty Orlando was the worst yeah in the first of the three there we go that makes sense okay nothing breaking right now we are just around 15 minutes we’re 15 minutes away from the 24-hour anniversary of when this started for the first time since 201920 Golden State and the LA Clippers are both projected to be below the luxury tax the two teams have spent 950 million ion combined since 2020 2021 that is crazy wow Bobby marks you know for for all the stuff people say about him as an executive has become a really interesting person to follow in terms of understanding the cap so this is how it looks with Klay Thompson if y’all can see my screen yes you can um starting five Luca Kyrie clay PJ Daniel Gafford what you’d be crazy if you think they’re going to be starting Daniel Gafford over Derrick livley next year no Derrick livley is definitely the starter reserves are Dante exom Jaden Hardy non- guaranteed Quint Grimes o I forgot about Quinton Grimes going there omx Prosper let’s hope he gets better Maxi kleber Derek Lively Dwight Powell second round Melbourne jinsa they’re solid team I just I’m not really sure how this I’m not okay this is does not mean being a clay hater I like Klay Thompson but I don’t think he’s worth three years $50 million has there been any player where I’ve been like that’s a great deal yeah of course there have been a few Malik monk was probably my favorite deal of free agency so far I you didn’t hear me say one time that Derrik White’s not worth this Dereck white is absolutely worth this and honestly I I think dlon Wright great deal dlon Wright is worth it drew EU Banks is probably not worth this but yes so overall um oh and and honestly Pistons fans are not going to be happy when I say this I think the Pistons have had the worst offseason so far some total everything I think they’ve had the worst offseason so far it’s been bad okay let me make myself bigger and answer some questions look at look at NBA Central hang on the Warriors planned to bring uh Klay Thompson Off the Bench behind Brandon paj jimsky next year yeah we heard that Brandon is going to start Flash Forward if Thompson had returned to Golden State the Warriors had planned to bring Thompson Off the Bench behind sophomore guard Brandon Pinsky yikes so Minnesota and Sacramento are showing interest in Lori marinan yeah I don’t think that’s going to happen the Wizards could sign and trade tus Jones oh oh yes please let it be for Bruce Brown Jamir Nelson Jr is joining the Spurs summer league roster that’s great man I I liked his dad a lot the Bulls are looking to dump the contracts of Zack LaVine and Lonzo ball um Good Luck the Lakers are very open to moving D’Angelo Russell that is a little surprising the miam he believed that their team is good enough to contend at full strength oh God do they well what else are they going to say the Phoenix Suns are keeping Yousef nkit whoa okay wow the Lakers were willing to offer Klay Thompson 80 million over four years he did themselves a big favor so he took less money to go to Dallas that’s taxes Spurs interested in Brook Lopez does that mean they might be interested in another big there has been communication between the Lakers and demard rosen’s agent per Chris Haynes it will take it will take either a one-year deal or a sign and trade where you can get three-year deal going dear doesn’t fit dude just sign Gary Trent and call it a day the Phoenix are showing interest in kylei oh god well they need a point guard I guess I don’t know why Kyle would go there come on home Kyle that would probably be the best idea um you know like why ring chase at this point with a team that has no chance am I missing something okay we have exhausted all of that let’s check leion Hoops Legion Hoops dos what Jason Tatum agrees to a 5year 315 million supermax extension with the Lakers per Chris Haynes largest contract in NBA history I guess the number seems crazy and don’t tell me I know where the Cap’s going I mean he’s a top six player you’re going to have to pay this it’s only crazy because he’s the first guy to do it it just it feels nuts but then next year you’re going to see some of these other extensions kick in and then I’m just telling you man like the Raptors are in a good place with this cap situation because you have a lot of teams that are going to have to pay like like what’s giannis’s next contract going to look like like and what’s the value in the back end of that contract the Raptors will be competitive right when all these teams with these older stars and the Raptors could have been that team with Fred vanley and Pascal SE yakum and ogan anobi they chose to Buck the trend they chose to be younger and that’s going to help them that’s G to help them because right now try as you may you cannot give Scotty Barnes 315 million if you could you probably would have but you couldn’t so you didn’t I don’t think he’s worth that where are the Celtics getting all this money from well that’s the big Ms of all here is that the Celtics are currently for sale and this is not going to be current ownership’s problem uh paying a combined at one point Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown will make a combined 1105 million dollar a year clutch Tatum saying we got plumbers on our bench that’s how we’re paying our mans bro that is such disrespect to Payton Pritchard who deserves to get paid um that’s disrespect to Luke cornette who just got the bag that is disrespect that’s disrespectful man straight up you got you got some talented guys on your band Sam Hower is is is great he’s a good player Rob did you want the Raptors to draft dalon connect yes yes I would have been fine with it I wanted them to draft e Eve Mei I’ll take that I’ll take that one with me to the Grave like if I’m wrong I’m wrong and you know what probably am going to be wrong but yeah no way bro just call JT and JB Shaq and Kobe yeah you see man honestly the the underrated player on that team is Drew holiday he makes all of this possible you don’t got Drew you don’t have a chance Jason Town Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown are really good players but they are being like they are really being carried by a system frankly it’s not an individual Talent thing they’re not just out talented anybody I wanted Tristan the Silva damn the magic well if the Magic’s recent draft record should give you any indication you dodged a bullet Jed Howard is not good last year frankly I have faith that Anthony black will be good at some point but he wasn’t that great either last year so you know the jet Howard thing is is going to haunt them in my opinion like I could be wrong but yeah I like the Caleb Houston thing so overall I think the magic are a above average organization but I’m I’m struggling to understand what they’re doing with the draft sometimes I like Grady more than jacobe so do I vogner B Caro pretty good though okay Devil’s Advocate if you could do that draft over is Paulo benero going over Chad hren B for real whatever happened to our second round pick nah I don’t know uh but David Johnson’s probably not gonna be an NBA player he’s died into what will make him money in the NBA I think I have High Hopes um yeah we already talked about it mobo has Draymond Green ceiling Dray yeah I mean like I I okay this is going to be controversial to anyone who thinks Jonathan mobo is precious auua as a player stop just stop stop you’re being stupid they are not even close as players they’re not even close it’s not even close bro you have to pay attention to more than just this guy has a ponytail this guy has a Nigerian last name and so this guy is going to be like this guy please stop for the love of God this is a PSA please stop stop making content like this please God stop he is not precious auua dude this guy is like a really really smart basketball player he’s not a raw athlete who’s just bumping on athleticism he is a real guard trapped in a Big’s body with wing size that’s not precious a chea bro stop it Aaron Gordon is a much better comp I don’t know I disagree with that but the precious sucha thing is wild just shut up like don’t do that like it it’s such and I’m gonna have to listen to this for for an entire year you know let me tell you something if frua had Jonathan Mobile’s understanding of basketball he would probably be a 30 Mill $25 million player okay like you got to stop it Jaden saying whoa Goa I’m assuming a deal broke let’s see is it the Raptors did the Raptors sign Goa bday are we about to have a celebration I I don’t know about celebration but let’s see where we at h free agent gooa Tuesday is returning to the magic on a three-year 25 million contract okay another one bites the dust um I’m just going to say this as you know I talked to someone who would maybe know this and actually like if Brian gets on this podcast at some point he will also be able to attest to the fact that when we were talking about the second round I was talking about Jonathan mobile the entire time um but I would tell you this in summer league you will see you will see the expansion of Jonathan mobo I promise you that clip this remember it yes Raptors are not going to make any big trades Rob they will be bad for the next few years I disagree I think yakob is overrated okay that’s not me saying it sorry I was reading a comment but don’t let I don’t think he’s overrated I never saw precious can’t wait for summer league me too so we are 2 minutes away 2 minutes away from the 24-hour mark on free agency and the Raptors have not made a single transaction mobo already flashed some versati combine rebounding and taking it Coast to Coast for example that’s the exact thing right like like with precious auua like we watch the entire precious auua you know um experiment hold on here Rob what player would you compare jacobe to on the downside um Reggie Bullock meets on the very very very very very improbable upside Devin Booker so yeah somewhere in that range of reie Bullock and Devon Booker I don’t see him ever becoming Devon Booker he didn’t really but I mean you know every time I say he can’t create his own shot someone forwards me like four clips of him going behind the back and doing just that so it’s been there in spurts but Raptors already tore it down um Jay Gua saying just say kcp it’s safer I won’t say kcp because it’s not safer it’s it’s just Dumber so basically cavius call about Pope I remember Young kcp was a guy that I would trust on like four positions and three positions three and a half positions and I just don’t trust I don’t trust um jacobe Walter to guard two positions right now so that’s just my perspective on it I don’t see him as a great defender yet if it was just an injury we’ll see but he has a long way to go as a Defender before I put him in the same breath as jacobe W uh before I put him in the same breath as kcp that’s why I keep saying that because because Reggie Bullock is not nearly as good a Defender um we need Ace Bailey Daniel please no um no no cap blocks please all right if you want attention Flash Super Chat okay mobo equals Isaiah Stewart absolutely not clutch Tatum come on bro beef stew is a Point shooting big big all right no I understand why people keep doing this people see a player and then they physically see another player right but it’s not the same player who’s Ace Bailey he’s a high school player going to college next year he’s good he’s really good it’s a good Wing Prospect mobo is a 6 foot6 Anthony Davis Journey wise um I see what you’re saying because they both grew up guards who became bigs I get it Daniel saying mobo equals Fred vanite Jesus Christ okay must we be so fixated on comparisons just comment on their strengths and weaknesses and how they can fit into our system comps are kind of lazy move in my opinion well I think it helps people to visualize what a player is when you do a comp right like and For Better or For Worse right like when you say Scotty Barnes is Draymond Green a lot of people start getting way too carried away with the zero level score stuff right but if you say Scotty Barn is Magic Johnson maybe people get too carried away from the positional versatility stuff so it helps sometimes you have a player that’s very very hard to pick down sometimes you have a player that’s very incorrectly compared to another player right so you have a player like Kade Cunningham what was his draft comparison Luca donic has anyone seen that yet because I haven’t I never I’ve never seen him as LCA donic I never saw it at any level he don’t manipulate defense nearly well enough to do any of that he’s just a big playmaker and people thought oh that’s like Luca those are what I call Lazy comparisons however sometimes comparisons are helpful because in order to unlock a player you have to put them in situations right so so if you see if you see Grady dick right and you start to imagine him like other movement Shooters in the past guys like JJ reic guys like Klay Thompson it’ll help you right to to really understand um what’s shobe Walter’s ceiling um that’s really hard to say about a 19-year-old man um again you can point to like the 0 point 1% type of outcome and say it’s G to be um it’s gonna be like Devin Booker but I mean he’s got so far to go from Devin Booker really um but at the same age if you put him one-on-one it wouldn’t be that far different type of player though so he’s got a lot to do he’s but physically there’s a lot of similari sizewise and all that stuff it’s it’s similar but Booker’s got that smooth sort of has he pullup you know he’s a self- Creator he can he has like some serious point guard skills and ironically Darko rakovich would know about that so I’m trying to compare him to a player the reason I only brought up Deon Booker is because Darko had had a hand in Devon’s development so he would know Mitchell Bernard saying comps are misleading because we’re dealing in probabilities I prefer it when you stick with Rangers I also prefer to stick with ranges right I do because you know okay so Paul B saying can you talk about Jamal shed’s defense sure um I think that he is a really physical and when I say physical I mean someone who likes to be physical someone who enjoys contact someone who’s willing to hold his base someone who can deal with a crossmatch and not get completely bullied I think there’s like toughness in him when he gets cross matched onto a big again it was College big but you know I think he has a little bit of that grit that Kyle Lowry showed like the ability to pension ability to get charges and stuff like that he’s not the biggest guy he’s obviously 6 foot one with a 6 fo3 wingspan so you know again switching over to Wings is not going to be a primary he’s never going to be a primary defender on a wing so this is not a Marcus Smart situation right where you’re going to be like okay Marcus Smart we’re going to put him on that small forward who’s giving us trouble right because he’s got that low low Center gravity that’s probably not going to be it but for a possession or two absolutely switch on to a you know stretch four like a cam Johnson he could probably hold it out so jacobe to me is going to be mpj I can see it in the future how Michael Porter Jr is a 6’10 sniper movement shooter I don’t get it um shed’s range is more Javon Carter Mike M KY so I don’t see him I get what you’re saying though Javon that that feels right that feels right but I think it’s more Patrick Beverly meets Fred Van vet you know it’s not quite as pure a playmaker as Kyle low it’s not nearly as physical a Defender um KY obviously the physical gifts he’s really good at playing passing Lanes I agree with that I saw that I saw a lot of that in in the games that I watched of him after the draft and before the draft it’s just you know shed has the sexiest defense I’ve ever seen really you really should have watched some Ryan dun tape then um sahad Chala saying OKC has poti three first round picks and the Raptors snag one them from them that’s there don’t need three more rookies I think if you ask the Thunder how do you feel about having three rookies next year I think they would say we feel fine Jay snod saying can he shoot is that a Jamal shed question in theory yes he can shoot I don’t think his shot broken I don’t think the percentages are necessarily great but they’re also a little misleading um Guardian Transit sayings Trent right now is looking lucky to get 10 million yes I think the market I think he he may have vastly overestimated his Market but I do think that he’ll get the full mid-level from someone I’m just curious who that is and if the Raptors will have to facilitate a sign and trade that could also be interesting araf Haron drop your Wiggins package I can’t do that again and again and again that feels like repeating myself I’ve already said it like if you know golden state is not a tax team right now this suddenly opens up the floor to actually do the Wiggins trade so if they’re not a second apron team right now I believe that you can now do Andrew Wiggins plus stuff right so now you can do Andrew Wiggins plus Moses Moody plus a pick for Bruce brown right and um okay besides sharp what other Center you look like that’s getable says Manny crypto besides Dron sharp what Center would I like well I wouldn’t be against Walker kler I understand you know there are some limitations there but more or less as a yaka purle replacement the rim protection certainly wouldn’t be the worst thing the youth and upside wouldn’t be the worst thing either I wonder what they would want for him Eve Mei would be great uh but I don’t think they’re gonna trade him right now man it’d be interesting Eve Mei for yaka purle and just that would fully signal a tank Paul blunt saying Scotty just helped Bruce sign up for a Canadian Tire points card is that is that real is that on social media like what am what am I missing here where is that RJ plus picks for Lori Markin in Lori and Scotty is the best duo in team history well they’re definitely not the best duo in team history but they certainly would be the best duo Scott’s ever had um Brooklyn has potentially four first round pi picks in next year’s draft well that is very interesting what would you feel about bringing in Caleb Martin on a two-year deal to start at the four well I guess that begs the question is four to you without bam out of Bio right there do you see him as a four or a three um Sports Empire LeBron to the Raptors please don’t do this I don’t care if that’s your prediction that’s trash and I know you’re trolling and I know you don’t believe that and there’s no place for that in these comments okay Garrett Temple is back okay great all right the Raptors waited exactly 24 hours and 10 minutes the Toronto Raptor signed Ford Garrett Temple he has agreed to a one-year deal to return to the Raptors he is repped by Mark bartelstein of priority Sports cool so the Raptor sign Garrett Temple that is that’s a roster spot gone um but I’m for it cool I’m not against it he was definitely a valuable vet and he won a lot of brownie points with the coaching staff and I’m pretty sure at some point he is going to be part of the coaching staff so really good vet really professional really good adult in the room to teach the young kids how to be you need guys like this in the NBA veg grassing Scotty’s fed I think he’s like he’s kind of serving that daddest young role but without without all the money attached to it I don’t need Udonis hlam I mean bro anyone trolling this just really I think you you’re missing you’re missing the point you really are I I’m perfectly fine with this sick of the suit pcks why dude are do you hate fashion J snad what are you wearing I’ve never asked a dude in my life what are you wearing but if you’re sick of Garett Temple suit picks I want to know what’s what what what what’s your fit game what do you on right now if you’re if you’re sick of Garrett Temple you know who I’m not even going to talk about it because I don’t like talking about other men and what they’re wearing but they there are a couple players on the Raptors that I I’m I’m happy I’m I would be happy if that’s the last time I see what they’re wearing he rather see Gary yeah I would not bro I seen Scotty wearing that um Matrix sort of um y’all remember that he like he looked like he was Neo and I was like I know G Temple put him on that Maran saying wonder if this news means the Raptors are leaking all their free agency news at once be Gary soon so here’s the thing if you if you do this deal it precludes you from doing other deals which means that like there are certain things that get out you you typically take care of this thing after you secure everything else G Temple was not a priority okay and you’re definitely not adding you know one and a half to2 million to your to your sheet do you know what I mean like you’re not adding this before you exhaust all the other options of what you were going to do so yes either it comes out in the next few hours or you know hold on here one sec I got a I got a I got to update our video title to Raptors resign Garrett Temple so that it is accurate to what we are talking about right now so yeah so I think I think G Temple was a phenomenal bet last year I really um hold on one second okay saved and adjusted I wouldn’t say it means we’re not doing anything at all I I I do think we’ll do something pack your bags Bruce again he expects to be moved when will he get moved I don’t know uh Jay Gua with a super chat what if Scotty plays the role of D rozan in a few years for us to acquire Shay you doing it no no I’m not I don’t think Scotty is on the D rozan tip bro I don’t think he’s on that D rozan trajectory I think he’s more on the Shay trajectory himself at which point you would be trading a young Shay for an old Shay and Scotty’s the better Defender so do you think RJ or quickly has a potential to be the second best a championship team potential is that dreaded p word that I have no idea right now um I think I’ll answer your question with a sort of conditional answer it really does depend on how good Scotty Barnes is because if he turns into like Prime kawh Leonard then maybe but if he’s not that level of player if just kind of like the Jason Tatum level of player if he’s a little less than Jason Tatum level player then no would you take D’Angelo as a backup point guard no I’m not trading Scotty Barnes for SGA says 6 Canada I’m sure Scotty would appreciate that he just sign Temple as an assistant coach instead of using a roster spot it is a completely different dynamic um and you have to understand that I understand that that’s not necessarily the easiest for people to understand people be like why don’t you spend your roster spots and all these young 18 19 20 year olds and why don’t you spend your adult coaching jobs you know why don’t you g Temple F coaching but you have to understand it from also the team balance and dynamic perspective right it is very different for Thaddius young and Garrett Temple to talk to you as one of the coaches versus as one of your teammates and if you’ve ever played competitive Sports you need to be the case right teams have Team only right like yeah that’s much closer to what it is yes players listen to players I don’t think it’s that um necessarily it’s players listen to coaches as well obviously you know Emanuel quickley is not sit here like shunning everything that you know he’s not sitting there like Darko rakovich you’re not a [ __ ] player get my ear that’s that’s not happening at all naturally the Toronto Raptors you know have good guys and I’m sure Jobe Walter will listen but you know bus rides plane rides coaches are sitting together right they’re buing coaching that’s your job but Garrett Temple his job may be mentorship right erri saying Garrett Temple haven’t accomplished nothing okay well far be it for me to say this is a very weird time to tell you about double NE negatives but ironically your your statement is accidentally he haven’t accomplished nothing is correct because he has accomplished a lot come on man look up Garett Temple’s life and tell me what you find I promise you you will find you will come back and apologize for that statement he’s accomplished a lot he has accomplished a hell of a lot look at his college career look at him look at his life look at his dad look at look at what he’s done and tell me that he’s not like really solid dude man sometimes it’s easy to talk to team lead than the manager sure yeah that’s exactly it Temple is a players player always respected I agree you know there are certain players look at what look at what the Raptors traded the Raptors traded Marcus cambi to get Charles Oakley right the Toronto Raptors traded Jonathan Bender to get Antonio Davis right the Toronto Raptors have done this multiple times the Raptors traded a young yonas funis to get marasol you have traded for older guys before the Raptor traded a younger player to get an older player when they traded Terence Ross for sergy Baka you don’t think sergy bak’s finals experience helped you you don’t think that Charles Oakley’s finals experience helped you with the bulls and all that stuff that he did with Vince you don’t think some of that institutional knowledge now imagine you’re Vince Carter right you’re you’re a Snappy hyped up you know 21y old you’re you’re you’re you’re getting gassed up by Gatorade commercials Nike contracts who you listening to at that point you’re listening to your parents yeah you might be listening to Butch Carter but now you got this vet he’s Michael’s best friend in the NBA Charles Oakley coming up to you and saying young fell you got to take care of your body in the off season you’re gonna listen to that you’re way more likely to listen to him saying it and also Oak was like a real like you know he does tell you twice type of guy so I feel like you’re going to listen to that a little bit different gett Temple same thing gett Temple is telling you telling Grady dick something I think you know Otto Porter all these guys I mean these guys have careers that you could Envy you don’t always have to bring in a Carmelo Anthony or Trac andrady at the end of your bench because that’s that’s different that’s not what you’re trying to emulate you know that’s that that’s not that’s not even a that’s not even a realistic outcome I understand a lot of you know ego-driven people they try to bring in these vets at the end of the bench but you know who I’m looking at at the end of my bench I’m looking for Aaron mck Derek fisers Devin George’s I’m looking for Rick foxes Robert or I’m looking for you know in the current NBA I’m looking for Garrett temples dadus Young’s Mike Conley’s eventually right you mentioned Butch Carter what are your thought feelings on him as a coach curious honestly a little bit before my time little before my time I really started watching the Raptors more when they hired Lenny Wilkins I’ve heard really mixed things I watched maybe one year under Butch Carter and I don’t have like the greatest memory of it um so I can’t I can’t say but you know anecdotally did he not help you know rise up two of the best young stars and did they both kind of become drastically worse after yeah Derek white yeah Derek white Drew holiday these are the type of these are the type of personalities you want to put at the end of your bench Brook Lopez Robin Lopez right step Adams I’m just going down the list of like really just solid solid dudes be great for winning organizations to look at right who else who else we looking at eventually a guy like Jeff dton you know what I mean like just culture Builders guys who don’t he don’t they don’t make too much noise they’re very flexible they set a good example Chris Paul sure Josh Hart m not so much Josh Hart I love Josh Hart but that’s he doesn’t fit that mold he’s he’s a he’s a [ __ ] disturber for sure he’s gonna PJ Tucker sure PJ is a great example like because I mean Anthony Parker great example hor garosa great example rashan EST stage great example um Chris MIM Scott Pard you need Jose Calderone Brian scalabrini yeah man you need these guys you need these guys at the end of your bench and some people call them scrubs but they’re not scrubs man they’re good you got to look at like look at an entire body right like I mean I’m not trying to give an anatomy electrics frankly I am deeply underqualified and unqualified to give an anatomy lecture but look at how your body moves right the parts you focus on are what your hands because you see them all the time your face you see it all the time your brain because you think about it sometimes your heart because it’s a very major organ that people talk about you think about your L do you think about you you think think about your liver your kidneys do you think about you know your patella tendon do you think about all the functional parts of you that make you who you are right now you might not think about you know a particular you know tendon but I’ll tell you right now the second you lose it you won’t be able to walk and you probably never even know it existed so that’s what I’m talking about like as a as an example of an organism that needs to exist it requires a lot of things veterans requ require a they they they provide a buffer every functional organization tends to be on the little bit older side right so FS saying we need a vet on the bench like rash show so we can let’s NBA are you from real GM because that seems to be like a really big joke around there I remember when fans complained how JV was averaging 30 points 20 rebounds while saying Gasol was averaging 0 points four rebounds completely missed the point of adding Gasol that’s annoying me to no end that’s exactly it right sometimes less is more most of our fan base delusional as [ __ ] honestly I used to think that I used to think our our fan base was was pretty dumb and then I would listen to other fan bases talk about their teams and I and I started to think maybe Raptor fans not that bad you know like I think some of them are all right you know a lot of them are all right maybe Jamal shed just posted a story of him in Toronto that’s awesome let’s let’s go check that out one sec um oops I am logged in to not my account on Instagram okay cool I’ll cut him some slack let’s that’s fair other fan bases be worse I just see hating us turning into them I think we’re evolving the right way instead of the wrong way I’ve seen some really stupid stuff in Raptor Phantom like over the last 10 years it seems to be getting better so credit to whoever is contributing to that um okay so another one bites a dust you know it’s like I mean that was pretty expected I think the Raptor signing Garrett Temple pretty expected they obviously thought very highly of him and you know he’s he’s a good piece going forward I wonder if they do sign another one of those guys like I wonder if they bring in another veteran and who that player would be it would be interesting so Bobby marks with this little graphic here um largest contract in NBA history first $70 million player in NBA history that is insanity you think about Jason Tatum making $70 million in one year in 2029 2030 Jason Tatum will be making 71,543 th000 wow contract do maximum raises goes from 54 5 58 62 6771 that’s [Music] nuts that really is crazy fa has sent me a story typically that means some news what’s going on oh he just he’s so funny he sent me uh he sent me Jamal shed’s story got to appreciate this community man whether I’m plugged in or not literally people Ming me all day long spotted this player at this airport spotted this player at this restaurant seeing this player at the mall this player might be doing this this player doing that it’s it’s it’s like y’all like like we’re like the secret police here Luca will be the first 80 million that would not surprise me well In fairness he doesn’t take all of that home but yes I see what you’re saying got spies on the streets absolutely um I mean where are the Raptors right now if they don’t make a trade I mean I I’m fully convinced that they will make a trade at this BR bound contract was not just signed to let him expire for nothing right I just going to hold on to him and then disrupt their whole team I think there’s also the added benefit of going into training camp with the roster that you intend to keep like there’s continuity Bruce Brown’s obviously going to play minutes why would you play minutes to a guy that you just intend to trade if you’re looking to develop you know what I mean like why not just did the summer league Rost did the summer league uh um it already came out summer league schedule already out hold let me check this that’s three days ago my bad I’m behind Okay so we got Oklahoma City July 13th Denver July 14th Utah July 17th Miami July 19 okay and I guess it’s the same rule you can’t lose more than one game probably lose our first game I don’t know I haven’t really enjoyed Raptor summer league a lot the last couple of years got to be honest this might be the first one where I’m like really really dialed in and looking forward to it the Scotty year was all right Christian Koko year was all right Grady last year was just it was a little difficult to watch not gonna lie um which game Scotty pulling up to probably pulling up to the Miami he’s probably pulling up to the Miami or Utah games he usually shows up late but you can imagine the team is going to be there um rank our second rounders mobo Chad exactly in the order we picked them that’s how I rank them Dean Hernandez here yeah Scotty summer league was fun um I think Jonathan will be out for blood in summer league I think he wants a roster spot and you know he’s obviously a very competitive dude who’s used to this level of and then also he’s like a very good transition player who makes like a lot of good decisions in transition and summer league is a lot of like pickup ball Jonathan seems like a really good pickup ball player so you know skill size speed all of it kind of matches up so I don’t know like Grady could struggle because he typically relies on like solid guard I still rely on Jamal said oai baji I guess is playing on summer league right let’s see here what is our summer league roster it doesn’t say what our summer league roster is on that let me see if there’s a nope not yet available I mean our roster last year was pretty ass we had Ron Harper Jr you had guys really really really hyped up about Moses Brown for some reason get rjan nard David Johnson Maris Noel yeah I mean I understood the Maris Noel thing I didn’t hate on it too hard but I really didn’t understand longterm what the Raptors were thinking there uh James mman we should try him out might get something well your name is already Elbo I’m not sure where we go from there but that’s that’s a fitting take James wisman is not a good basketball player James wisman is also a distraction when you bring in bust into organization it is a distraction Raptor probably find this out also he has been given ample opportunities and he was on the bench on the worst team in the league last year have you caught the memo the Raptors want winners they want guys who want to come in and win guys who have won on the previous yeah well I I caught that so I mean you want you want to you want to bank on archetypes and you want also Bank on history history is showing us the Raptors are prioritizing High achieving college players who won a lot in college you said that mobo is a high rebounder is just a good jumper or does he also have a good sense of timing and boxing out and getting to his hands on the ball I don’t even think he’s that great a jumper it’s just incredible nose with the basketball um I can’t remember exactly his hand measurements but some people just get off the ground quicker than others some people have better hand eye ation than others some people just have a better sense for like the basketball like they just have a better sense for angles in terms of how things are coming off and whatever so I think that um this is something I was researching a lot last week and it was about Chad hren and what Chad hren does to stay on the court he’s not some super athlete he’s not very strong he just plays angles extremely well Chad is a very smart athlete he may not be the bounciest athlete not be the most fluid guy but he is just such a functionally ridiculous athlete and it’s it helped him be so successful last year W is the same way right how are these string beans surviving It ultimately just comes down to understanding angles and being really smart with your basket uh smart with smart with your body so Jonathan mobile reminds me of that like he’s he’s got big shoulders so he clears a lot of space with the rebounding have you ever played basketball uh against a guy who just always gets the ball like it doesn’t matter if it’s anywhere near him he just if it’s a loose ball he’s got it if it’s on the floor he gets it when it’s an offensive rebound he somehow just manages to tip it that’s him that’s him in a nut show he has a nose for the basketball so by 23 urri should be LeBron great continuing on with the trend uh Bruce plus Chris for cam Johnson Theon sharp if can do that for two seconds good trade if we can swing it I pretty much I’m pretty sure I just said that trade earlier in the show and I added a first I heavily protected first um any trade ideas as to how Dorian fny Smith cam Johnson and Dron Shard can become future Raptors yeah sure you know you give them you give them all your expiring and you take those guys back and that’s that’s kind of it right it’s like are they trying to package are they trying to look at that as like we want to get off of Ben Simmons contracts so we’re going to use dayon sharp and young assets that we have to sweeten the deal right um so I could see that for sure um James wisman is trash how are the Raptors going to focus on developing URI Kay when bust wisman is on the Raptors um I think I would look at it the other way how are the Raptors going to focus on um no like look any player you take a chance on at this point it’s because you’re trying to correct something right you can think of it like crooked teeth right you’re trying to correct it you need braces you need a retainer you need invisaline you need something to correct it right it’s not going to correct itself James wisman is on the wrong trajectory now if you believe the Raptor should sign James wisman you are of the opinion that you can do something that Detroit I apologize there’s some construction going on above my head um Monday at 6:30 on Canada the day this probably shouldn’t be happening but whatever let it slide it’s not too disruptive um Chi-Chi thing is is wisman on the Raptors no URI and jacobe are both anime fans as a person who never really watched anime I’m not really sure if that’s bad or good I just think of it as a quirk but yes I I I also saw jacobe Walter talking about anime and I was like that’s cool these kids are 19 wait did we sign Wiseman what the [ __ ] what why is everyone talking about James Wiseman no don’t tell me we signed James wisan am I getting head faked again I’m getting head faked again oh this is interesting hang on share this instead this is a very interesting post by NBA dunk Central CL Klay Thompson’s Antics behind the scenes have been equally as exhausting as Draymond Green’s per Jay D ports clay has been equally as exhausting behind the scenes it’s not as loud it’s not as loud because it’s not you stomping on someone’s chest if he’s slamming stuff on the bench and sulking and doing that on the court how do you think he is in practice how do you think it is in the locker room it has been uncomfortable it has it just doesn’t come out as loudly as Draymond Green honestly I fully agree with this um every single so this is the crazy thing every single um presser that I’ve watched of Klay Thompson’s I’ve gotten this impression of very heavy energy very Cy very offensive not a good place to be as a team leader right and you know maybe a lot of that comes down to Ego right a lot of that comes down to you know feeling a little bit like you got to prove it you got to prove it all to yourself right um maybe that has to do with the fact that you know your general manager left right the guy who signed you to that first big deal left maybe some of that has to do with dysfunction you know a dysfunctional relationship within the lock room maybe that’s you know so I’m not necessarily um but you know things Peak good good we resign Temple I agree okay I hope um clay has been entitled bare ego he’s also worked for it let’s not pretend like he’s not a champion and he didn’t earn those Championship checks he did um you know he’s he’s a phenomenal shooter I think he is a little bit overrated we should wave him then who are you talking about Chi-Chi saying well obviously the guy was just pushed to the side after committing his career to the team they did him dirty okay they paid him not including luxury taxs nearly I want to say $120 million to not play basketball they did not do him dirty they paid him very well he’s been overpaid literally his entire career his entire career and frankly he was a really big part of why they lost last year and frankly I don’t think he was a big part of why they won in 2022 I’m sorry no no no no no no we not gonna we’re not going to revise history KY Thompson’s had a fantastic career but Nick’s 100 a GM please don’t cap blocks again if you’re so thirsty for attention Super Chat like like a big boy that’s your final warning you take away clay shots they win four rings um yeah um I’m going to ask you one more time no more cap blcks okay derp saying clay got paid yeah he did and again allegedly the the Lakers were willing to offer four years 80 million so I mean that’s just crazy and what is this like I mean you know I guess people get excited and this is something I was talking about yesterday with Coach Mo on one of our extensively long lives it’s like people get really excited when you when you you know pick up a guy who’s maybe had a bad year towards the end of his career and you’re like oh he’ll turn it around here like Gary will just morph into glove 96 version or you know car Malone just about to turn into Utah car Malone even though he’s had a couple wash Seasons or the tronto Raptor signing hem elij at the end of his career right Klay Thompson is at the very end of his career I promise you that like next three years he’s going to be washed so I just cannot understand yeah you’re gone um Bana Gibson same warning as Nick GM Nick you’re gone banned and bana Gibson I’m going to say this like no cap lock I don’t believe La offered 80 million it doesn’t matter what you believed it matters what was reported by people more credible than you okay so I’m not trying to get KY but please do not do not cap loocks it’s very annoying as a general philosophy in life try to ask yourself would the the world be better if everyone did what I was doing if the world would be worse if everyone did what you were doing don’t do what you’re doing be saying I learned my lesson with the cap locks great people at cap lock button stuck I wonder how it got stuck I wonder how it got stuck um Jordan P Andrew wiggin Steph Curry won that Championship my opinion facts like Kay was like the fifth best player on that team here maybe sixth do a live during summer league games um we do it after absolutely uh we got 46 people in here make sure to get let’s see if we can get up to 400 likes that would be beautiful on this video 400 likes it helps the algorithm doesn’t take you a dime do it now we just got 421 y’all messed up the vibe but maybe we get down to 420 but yes 46 people I like I like numbers like that to Flip Flip up I don’t love when we have 666 people in the chat usually want to ban somebody whenever whenever we get that number it’s not good all right Steph Wiggins Looney Dre and pool all more important probably yeah yeah Looney didn’t play too too much but yeah he was important um and for a while um Gary Payton was important oh LOL okay sorry I I feel like I should read in in in a voice that would be more suited to to you you don’t have to unsubscribe you’re B you’re out out I was talking about this the other day and I completely lost my train of thought and I didn’t not finish it um it was about Warren Buffett Warren Buffett right when I was listening to this interview Warren Buffett and they asked him what okay uh MK lp82 what do you think of a mountain pickup I think it’s great I think it’s a great bet on yourself contract I think he’s going to get more money next year um I doubt he less money yeah um so specifically Warren Buffett when he was asked what’s the best part about being you yourself I think when I was listening to that interview I I cycled through some thoughts in my mind of what would be so great about being Warren Buffett would it be you know being successful wealthy you know all that stuff and he responded and he said it was freedom of Association he works with the only people he wants to work with he doesn’t mess around with people that he don’t wants around with and I think what I was trying to say is that we all most of us typically have that most people have a boss we don’t want to deal with we have friends we’re too afraid to confront we have maybe subscribers that we have to be super duper nice to because we’re afraid but what if people think I’m a bad person because going back and forth with one of my subscribers and then people unsubscribe you know we have people where you know maybe if you’re a raptor fan you like oh man I don’t want to be too critical of this Emanual quickly contract because what if some Raptor fans out there really don’t like what I’m saying and then you know what I mean that’s freedom Freedom Association and freedom of speech are very very important things and typically the more money you have the more of that you have in your life the more happiness you have right so that’s kind of the point here is that I figured out that you don’t actually need billions of dollars to have that is a gift you can give yourself right now you don’t have to put up with [ __ ] if PE if you don’t like and manipulators and you work for a liar and manipulator bro if you have a hard enough stance on it go find another job you will find a way if you believe in your standards enough you will find a way to live within those standards right if you believe that you’re worth being paid $200,000 a year if you really believe it if you honestly believe you’re $200,000 a year person you will not stop until you get it you won’t stop so don’t sit there right don’t sit there and be like yeah I think I’m a $200,000 person but I’m going take this you know $18 hour job for now don’t do that just go get what you think you’re worth in general personally I think I’m worth you not cap locking my entire [ __ ] chat okay I’m just I’m just I think it’s respectful I think most people are pretty irritated by it if I ran a poll probably most people would vote that that’s annoying right Urban Wrestling Network dope um I agree man and it’s not even like it’s like um Rusty Nail saying I got gaslighted by my now ex-friend when I explain to them how my brain is wired in social situations H yeah don’t yeah don’t let don’t let people do that to you man just I mean solicit advice from a random person on the internet it’s just you know know your worth just don’t be delusional about it what’s delusional what’s delusional right like again you might be right like like Kenny Smith was talking about something the other day I thought it was really poetic and very interesting he said that he was um in his second year in high school he was telling someone that he thought he should go to that he wanted to go to the NBA and the coach coach told him oh I didn’t know that was your you know I was I’m surprised that you want to go to the NBA because I didn’t I didn’t get that from your work ethic like I didn’t get you you don’t seem like you’re working like you want to go to the NBA and he took that as a challenge right that’s great right sh Sheran Forbes happy birthday sir your two most valuable Assets in life for your time and freedom be wise how you spend your time so you can enjoy more freedom in life work for yourself if possible reap the full fruits of your labor I agree that is beautiful yes I agree you know we spent a lot of time [ __ ] on fed van for betting on himself ultimately betting on yourself is not not the worst philosophy it’s actually a pretty great philosophy if you’re not inherently corrupt person but I do think that within all the things that we do you know trying to protect ourselves trying to you know stand up for ourselves I do believe to some extent we must also ask how our actions impact others right are we making other people’s lives more difficult are we leaving situations better than when we found them right if we are a part of a community if we are a part of a building you know if you live in a in a condominium if you you know I don’t know like I feel like most of us will walk past you know I don’t know a McDonald’s rapper or a McDonald’s bag just thrown on the ground and just be like someone else who picked that up why not you why not you what does it take takes two seconds pick it up throw it in the garbage it’s not that hard if every single person did what you just did the world would be a worst place right yeah Wi-Fi hotspot that’s fun pepperjack with a super chat y Rob yo Rob did I just mispronounce my own name I just called myself robe sorry wow yo Rob just a small token of appreciation for your busting your ass especially the last 48 hours you’ve been working harder than wo during freey keep it up my man well I got seven hours of sleep last night and I don’t think w got seven hours of sleep last night so I don’t think I’m working harder than W but I appreciate this and thank you so much yeah um my tax money pays for people to clean litter um again you’re entitled to that opinion but personally I think the world would be a better place if more people just I’ll I’ll leave you with this and this is just you know and then we’ll do one final check of Twitter and we’ll call you know we’ll call it a live and then maybe we’ll we’ll congregate at midnight and see what else broke down if something else breaks down but this free agency seems to be very slow okay there is a gap between fault and responsibility a big one in life and you should never forget that in my opinion it’s not your fault right it’s not your fault that your parents didn’t teach you how to manage your money that’s not your fault it’s not your fault that your teachers in your school didn’t teach you how to manage your credit it’s not your fault that your parents fed you McDonald’s when you were a kid thus pretty much wrecking your entire taste buds and wiring you to like junk food for the rest of your life none of these things are your fault just like it would not be your fault if you open your door tomorrow and you find a newborn baby there not your fault someone else put it there right but would you agree that it would be your responsibility to do something about it right your genetics are not your fault right you got bad skin if you got bad teeth that’s not your fault sometimes That’s genetics if you got you know a faulty you know if you have health problems because of genetics if you got diabetes because of genetics that’s not your fault it’s your responsibility to make your life better if you live if if your parents were poor and you grew up poor that’s not your fault guess what it is your responsibility though I was alluding to it earlier that most of us would understand that if you if you could crack Kobe or Michael or LeBron or any one of these people’s heads open you know not viciously but just science scientifically if you can crack it open and just evaluate thoughts that they were having when they were down two down three after a tough loss after they lost the finals well Michael Jordan never lost the finals LeBron’s lost plenty that’s a bit of a shot at LeBron I apologize for LeBron fans out there but my point is if you could just see what that motivated what did that loss what did that you know what did that spark and most people who are great most people who are successful and you don’t have to be LeBron great or Michael Jordan great just great great great great neighbor great Community leader a great you know boss a great whatever right you will find in most cases that negative negative situations breed positive thoughts right when I lost my parents like my my dad I was very mad at the world I guess for a while and then when I lost my mom there was a part of me that was looking around at all my cousins saying y’ y’all have both your parents how come I’m The Unlucky One to lose both my parents I’m 20 years old how the hell I’m I supposed to to survive in this world losing both my parents and that’s really tough you know that’s a tough thought to have and that’s a great way to be victim right and I remember you know um I had an exam like the day after my mom died I had an exam it was right around midterms in 2008 and I had an exam and I remember you know a friend of mine telling me it’s okay you know you can take the semester off people will understand I was like okay I thought about but I thought about what they said like people will understand you know you lost you lost your mom that’s a pretty big thing people will understand and people kept saying people will understand people will understand people understand it’s not my fault my that my mom passed away it’s not my fault I’m an orphan at 20 it is my responsibility to make my life better honestly for a little while I kept the resolve I went the next day I took my exam I did not do well I continued to stay in school but eventually all the people telling me that I needed to relax that I needed you know that it was okay that I was falling apart and all that stuff it started to take a on me and I and I feel like I started to really slip then my grades did start to slip then my health slipped then my habit slipped then my home slipped then my work slipped and I wasn’t working for a while and at some point someone reminded me of this they said it’s not your fault that your mom is dead it’s your responsibility to do something about it it’s it’s it’s not your fault you know as much as you may beat yourself up about and say oh man I could have helped more I could have done this I could have done that maybe I could have saved or whatever no it’s not your fault man this is life but it is your responsibility to make your life better after that just like it’s not your fault you get laid off it’s your responsibility to find a new job so that’s all I’m saying right NBA said good comparison between mobo and precious oh dear God um sorry I’m trying to I’m trying to scan these uh thoughts or comments here if every man had a full grasp of the value of time and Freedom the world would be more prosperous problem you can find yourself in an where productivity and competition have been made a and truth be told our environments are drastically almost always shaping you know our realities if I spend this entire live venting complaining and being overly negative you’re going to leave this live way more negative and emotion negative if I’m positive not false positive not fake positive not false positivity not oh sunshine roses that’s I consider that delusion ignoring problems doesn’t make you positive it makes you frankly it makes you part of the problem no like if if I um only talk about the problems if I only I if especially if I talk about the problems from the negative lens I feel like we all because this is a community that we have built together because this is a community that we all participate in I believe that we are all going to be charged that way that’s why whenever we go on players choice and I’m not screaming and I’m not yelling at guys and you know people call it boring people say no bring back ticket bring back ticket these new bums they’re not been why because in their homes the standard is being set that when you got a disagreement you yell you scream you throw things you call people you know words you call people derogatory things you cross you cross a lot of boundaries you threaten people I’m going punch you I’mma do this over basketball bro come on get real you know I don’t but but that’s that’s the thing right you know what I mean like it’s like if you eat McDonald’s your whole life everything is going to taste like it’s lacking salt right why because your taste buds are dead geez trolling thank you for the content um y rob you calm that panel down and inject wisdom I try you know I’m trying you know there’s a lot of people out there I think those people are naturally like like um you know pretty calm like I think you know uh jaill toown appropriate name he’s cool Mars is pretty level right uh Ron is pretty cool like I I think it just it takes one person to start stirring the pot and start screaming you know what I mean like we’re all children to some extent that weren’t Hur at some point and it’s just like like when you find like an adult who’s always screaming you’re like you weren’t as a child you know um okay let’s just do a quick runaround of Twitter and see if anything has happened at all I’m assuming if anything had happened y’all would have probably talked about it um nothing nothing nothing nothing are we getting anything from Jake Fisher next up rival executives are prepared for Luke Canard to remain in Memphis even after the Grizzlies deined his player option League sources okay having already signed a future Hall of Fame point guard Chris Paul another veteran Spurs are targeting in free agency as French forward Nicholas Batum well that’s that’s no good now because he ended up going to the Clippers Orlando Magic has found a found a new three-year agreement with goo bati yep we know about that we are not we do not expect Lori marinin to be traded but that has not stopped multiple teams including Golden State from calling Utah I wonder what they’re offering are they offering JN are they offering Bon paj jimsky like what are they offering um damn so I like I really like Josh Green I’m I’m sad to see that the the Charlotte Hornets value him that much but I wonder if he’ll be a starter for them at some point because I think he really fits um he Shores up a lot of things was very impressed with his hustle and his three-point shooting overall like I I just thought he was he was really good for them in the in the finals he was he was a player that I never had any concerns about and the more he played it seemed like the better things got for them um okay Dr Gabor mate’s book on trauma so friend of mine um two friends of mine actually they run a bookshot called Seekers books shout outs to Seekers books in the annex and they said that garate has come in there quite a few times yes any news from venkov I think he’s staying um you like Josh green or Naji Marshall for Dallas more so here’s the thing you lost Josh green and Nar sorry you lost Josh green and Derrick Jones Jr and you replace them with Klay Thompson and Nai Marshall so overall I don’t know I’m not I’m not sure like if if that’s a net neutral net positive I think you could sell yourself on Clay being a more Dynamic offensive player than all those guys combined but you know there is a timeline thing here and I’m I’m just I don’t know man like you know you had a system that optimized him very well he has not been really good the last two years and it’s just like at this stage it’s just like what are we expecting here what’s to turn around right and if he’s just going to come in and then be disgruntled about like you know I’m not being treated like the champion that I am I think here’s the thing delusions of grandeur are always very important humility must be adjusted if Vince Carter walked around in Atlanta and all the pit stops like yo I’m not respecting you like the Hall of Famer that I am it would have never worked out right so if if Klay Thompson can have an attitude adjustment and realize he’s not a max player anymore he’s not a guaranteed starter if his departure from Golden State is an ego based thing of him not being able to accept the reality fact that he’s not a starter in the NBA right now I don’t I don’t think it’s going to work I’m sorry I’ve never seen it work where a guy just refuses to accept who he is like that’s just not not it thanks a lot man appreciate it all right um let me know if the internet was a little bit choppy one one bar two bar the whole time y’all tell me every time I’m at one bar and I’m panicking that it’s still going going all right but would you say that RJ Barrett has a similar energy as Andrew Wiggins no I wouldn’t Hoops hype released summer leak rosters that’s cool it it can’t be complete anyways like it can be temporary but it can’t be complete because I mean unless you’re telling me U shamay is on our summer league roster and Jamal Shad are on our summer league roster Andre Lee saying do you think Kyle Anderson is a good fit um yeah if if anything okay so here’s my goal my goal is to get Scotty away from the four spot my goal is to get him back to the perimeter as a perimeter player I don’t want Scotty operating as a power forward feels like the Raptor are building this team under the assumption that Scotty’s going to be a fourman because they don’t really have a power forward on this roster that’s not Chris bu or Bruce brown right and I understand you know positions are fluid right um K crazy saying it’s Choy that’s what I thought yeah I a little on sound yeah can the Raptors get get Josh Green I very very much doubt it now that you know if if it has been let down unless it’s a lie right um the Charlotte Hornets were targeting him for a while Scotty R IQ RJ something Kelly linic Andrew thoughts on cam Johnson I would say scroll back to about the 15 minute Mark I went into a pretty big deep dive into why cam Johnson and day ronar all right guys I’ll talk to you later have a good one and if anything happens at midnight we’ll do one if nothing’s happened by midnight we’re not just going to do another live so this free agency has been a little bit disappointing I was expecting the Raptors to be a little bit more active than just Garrett Temple but look I’m gonna end this live and I’m gonna have phone blow up with like Bruce bound traded and we’re going to be we’re gonna be back at it again so we’ll keep it on hold I’m gonna be around but yeah have a great Canada Day guys cheers oh and final note thank you so much to jerone Samuel H JMT Holdings um jam Baron uh Jay gu and pepperjack super chats much appreciated getting our July off to a very very solid start thank you so much
The Toronto Raptors, notorious for their slow movement patterns and extreme proneness to standing pat are at it again. According to Jake Fischer of Yahoo Sports, the Raptors have had numerous bites from teams like OKC on Jakob Poeltl but their “asking price remained high”, and allegedly they had geared up for a Bruce Brown trade with either Milwaukee or Chicago (Patrick Williams) but that didn’t materialize.
It’s a game of musical chairs and the Raptors tend to think patience is always the right answer. A 23 million dollar expiring Bruce Brown in a contract year on a young rebuilding team…the Raptors overvaluing their own pieces, rolling over flexibility.
Where have I seen this before. Klay Thompson signing with the Mavericks should open up some space to move for the rest of the NBA as he was allegedly one of the final bigger dominos to fall.
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Milton was not a option after the Sac trade
Omar Yurtseven as our center….potential
Temple is kind of a waste of a roster spot.