It was apparent last year that they were a fringe playoff team in an uber-top-heavy Eastern conference and were getting insane deals for both OG and Siakam. Instead of selling, they turn into buyers and get Poeltl from the Spurs in exchange for next year’s 1st round pick (which will probably be in the lottery) and two 2nds. Why would they do this, especially with how talented this most recent draft class has turned out to be?

  • NightWriter500BEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The Raptors don’t owe it to anyone to blow up their own team. They’re allowed to roll the dice and go for it just like everyone else, and the only people annoyed about that want something from them. They won a championship a few years ago and anyone in the playoffs have a chance, and maybe they’d rather take that chance than blow it to pieces to give other teams a better chance.

    Why didn’t the Lakers blow it up last season? They were one of the worst teams in the league and their only good players were ancient and broken. But they chose to be buyers instead and somehow got to the WCF. Why isn’t this post about them?

  • BeTheBall-BEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think they’ll blow up anything. They have 6 good-to-very-good players and a bunch of riff raff. Clear out the riff raff and they could easily be in the middle of the east race.