Raptors free-agent wish list starts with Fred VanVleet and Jakob Poeltl. But it shouldn’t end there
and general manager Bobby Webster juggling any number of scenarios for the moment free-agent talks can officially begin Friday at 6 p.m.
Whether they can fit VanVleet and Poeltl into a salary structure that probably has about $50 million to split between them will depend on other teams, and that createsIf the Houston Rockets throw $40 million a year at VanVleet, the Raptors couldn’t — and shouldn’t — even try to match that. The Raptors will be perilously close to the first tax level if they re-sign both free agents, but they see a path to making it possible. They may also consider trading a player into another team’s salary-cap space or trade exemption and take nothing of value back. All possibilities are rattling through the minds of Ujiri and Webster and the team’s top-level accountants.
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