Dave Feschuk: With one move, the Raptors have done an organizational 180. Whether that was a wise choice remains to be seen
The NBA centre has been cast as an endangered species more than once over the years. Depending on the season-to-season wax and wane of big-bodied dominance in the NBA lane, there’ve been plenty of moments when the impending death of the traditional pivot has been prophesied.
“We are going to create our own direction,” Ujiri explained a couple of years back. “We don’t have to go with the wave of what the NBA is doing, we are such a copycat league.” Indeed, there’s a reason why Nikola Jokic, the centre for the Denver Nuggets, is currently favoured to become the first player since Larry Bird to win three straight most valuable player awards. And there’s a reason why, in voting for Jokic’s previous two MVPs, the runner-up was Joel Embiid, the centre for the 76ers. An NBA centre that wraps the virtuoso skillset of Jokic and Embiid into an uncommonly hulking package is a rare prize, to be sure.
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