Raptors Insider: Front office uncertain how to approach NBA trade deadline with injuries ravaging team
management who figured it would take 20 games or about a month of the season to learn just what the team was, what it needed and how the pieces fit. Then they could start figuring out what, precisely, to do.Not only have injuries, illnesses and absences, messed up the short term, they are also screwing with the longer-term plans as well.
The 20-game mark is generally accepted around the league as the time a team takes full stock and the end of November starts the unofficial beginning of the trade season.who represents Toronto’s best trade asset. He’s got a manageable contract, about $17 million a year that he can get out of this off-season to chase a longer-term, bigger-money deal.
No, the biggest problem that’s gone on in the first quarter or so of the season is that it hasn’t given the front office anything to adequately base decisions on and that’s what frustrates them the most.Staying with the spate of injuries and this serious flu bug that’s been decimating the Raptors for weeks, there’s this point.and not sure many would have seen that coming given his history.
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