Life in the Eastern Conference had already gotten tougher this summer. It took another jump on Sunday. Jrue Holiday is now a member of ...
Jrue Holiday is now a member of the Boston Celtics, joining Jayson Tatum, Jalen Brown, Derrick White and Kristaps Porzingis in a lineup that looks awfully like a championship contender, not that it didn’t have that smell before the deal.
For the Toronto Raptors, who host media day on Monday before hopping on a flight for training camp in Vancouver, it’s one more hurdle in their path. James Harden could still be on the move from Philadelphia, but that deal and that relationship between player and team seem a lot less straight forward. In any event, the rich got a lot richer in the off-season, while teams like the Raptors failed to keep pace. All of the Raptors’ improvements — more depth with the arrival of Jalen McDaniels and Garrett Temple Jr., not to mention the drafting of Gradey Dick — were more than offset by the loss of starting point guard Fred VanVleet.VanVleet was both the straw that stirred the Raptors’ drink and the head of the snake, to steal two of Dwane Casey’s favourite sayings.
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