With Nick Nurse and Fred VanVleet already out the door, trade talks surrounding All-Star Pascal Siakam are reportedly picking up steam.
, "there is persistent speculation" that Siakam could be dealt prior to the regular season or "perhaps much sooner" as the NBA's wild transaction market starts to cool off a bit over the coming weeks.
Grange added added that throughout a tumultuous 2022-23 campaign, VanVleet and Siakam grew "deeply frustrated" with their younger teammates throughout the course of the season, as losses to inferior opposition began mounting. According to Grange, the Raptors' young stars did not take kindly to their patronizing older teammates, creating a divide in the locker room that Nurse and his staff could not bridge.
Raptors president Masai Ujiri felt the need to step in and address the team on a number of occasions as well, notably pulling Barnes aside at one point, according to Grange. Things reached a boiling point as the trade deadline neared in February, with the team's poor performances tempting the front office into blowing things up and selling off its most valuable assets. Weeks of rumours reportedly left the locker room uneasy, with players unsure how secure their roles on the team were. Grange says Nurse had all but accepted that he'd be fired following a string of losses before the end of the season.
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