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illmatic99 said:
So if we can come up with 28 mil to send out, we should be able to trade for him as well as keep our TP MLE? Think i'm misunderstanding this
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No--to keep our TPMLE, we'd have to send out like 34M. These are just rough numbers, since I'm not actually making the effort to do precise calculations or factor in roster charges.
 
Ujiri to stay in Toronto, 'confident' about Kawhi

Toronto Raptors president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri says he's staying with the team he helped build into an NBA champion.

Ujiri made the announcement to reporters during his season-ending media availability Tuesday.

"I love it here. My family loves it here. My wife loves it here, which is very important. My kids are Canadians. You want to win more. ... In my mind, I'm here," Ujiri said.

Earlier this month, league sources told ESPN that the Washington Wizards were preparing to offer Ujiri a deal approaching $10 million annually with an opportunity for ownership equity.

Ujiri, who has two years left on his contract, is the architect of the first championship in Raptors history. He also helped to build the Denver Nuggets into a contender.

The 48-year-old Ujiri now will focus on retaining NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard, who is expected to opt out of the final year of his contract and become a free agent.

Ujiri said he texted with Leonard as recently as Monday night and talked to Leonard's uncle and adviser, Dennis Robertson, earlier on Tuesday. Ujiri said he's "confident" Leonard will decide to return to Toronto.

"We'll wait. He's our player and he's a superstar on our team and we'll wait on that," Ujiri said.

Ujiri stressed the main selling points of his pitch to Leonard: health, trust, success.

"I said we have to be ourselves, and we were ourselves for the whole year,'' Ujiri said. "I think he saw that. I think we built a trust there.

"I believe winning a championship, him seeing who we are, working with his medical staff combined with our medical staff and getting him to where he wanted to be,'' Ujiri added.

Ujiri acquired Leonard and Danny Green last summer in a major trade with San Antonio that sent DeMar DeRozan, Jakob Poeltl and a first-round draft pick to the Spurs.

"I think they know what the effect of Kawhi's decision is, but we're really approaching it like we want to bring everybody back on this team,'' Ujiri said. "That's a priority for us.''

Center Marc Gasol also has a player option for next season, and Green is a free agent.

Less urgent is a potential extension for forward Pascal Siakam, a runaway winner of the NBA's Most Improved Player award. The parties plan to meet during the summer league.

"Pascal has gotten to a place where he's definitely a priority for us and it's definitely going to be a conversation that we'll have,'' Ujiri said.

Ujiri said little about his confrontation with a deputy following the Game 6 clincher. The deputy's lawyer, David Mastagni, says his client is on medical leave with a concussion and jaw injury and is considering a lawsuit. Ujiri says his lawyers are updating him about the investigation.

"I am confident about who I am as a person, my character and as a human being,'' Ujiri said. "For now, I'll just respect their process there and wait for the next steps.''

Ujiri finished fourth in voting for the NBA Executive of the Year award, won by Milwaukee Bucks general manager Jon Horst.
 


This is just stupid. Either Capela or Gordon would be amazing in LA next to Davis/Lebron. They might unintentionally make their competition better.

Also. What tampering rules? Ain't no way they're doing this without assurance from Butler.
 
illmatic99 said:


This is just stupid. Either Capela or Gordon would be amazing in LA next to Davis/Lebron. They might unintentionally make their competition better.

Also. What tampering rules? Ain't no way they're doing this without assurance from Butler.
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There is a tweet about Butler on vacation yesterday and hadn't even considered the Rockets in free agency.
 


I wonder if Houston is in the running and Butler is just a smokescreen.
 
illmatic99 said:


This is just stupid. Either Capela or Gordon would be amazing in LA next to Davis/Lebron. They might unintentionally make their competition better.

Also. What tampering rules? Ain't no way they're doing this without assurance from Butler.
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I don't think LA has the 1st to send to them, though.
 
illmatic99 said:


I wonder if Houston is in the running and Butler is just a smokescreen.
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Houston does this all the time. They only care about stars so they try and create cap space. Remember the year they did this because they wanted to sign Bosh?

Would you trade Harkless (to a 3rd team like NY) and a 1st to Houston for Eric Gordon? It makes us better but also helps Houston possibly land someone. Although if you take Capela, Gordon, and Tucker off of Houston just to replace them with Horford I don't know if that's really that much of an upgrade.
 
hoopsjock said:
Houston does this all the time. They only care about stars so they try and create cap space. Remember the year they did this because they wanted to sign Bosh?

Would you trade Harkless (to a 3rd team like NY) and a 1st to Houston for Eric Gordon? It makes us better but also helps Houston possibly land someone. Although if you take Capela, Gordon, and Tucker off of Houston just to replace them with Horford I don't know if that's really that much of an upgrade.
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In a heartbeat.
 
hoopsjock said:
Houston does this all the time. They only care about stars so they try and create cap space. Remember the year they did this because they wanted to sign Bosh?

Would you trade Harkless (to a 3rd team like NY) and a 1st to Houston for Eric Gordon? It makes us better but also helps Houston possibly land someone. Although if you take Capela, Gordon, and Tucker off of Houston just to replace them with Horford I don't know if that's really that much of an upgrade.
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How do we get Capela? That's who I'd want out of those 3.

What I remember about the Bosh situation is that it blew up in their faces. Let's help them do it again!
 
dviss1 said:
How do we get Capela? That's who I'd want out of those 3.

What I remember about the Bosh situation is that it blew up in their faces. Let's help them do it again!
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I d be flying to Portland way more!
 
Tucker and Gordon would be awesome. Capela is too expensive to have as a backup when Nurk is healthy. And he is too good as well to waste as a 20 minutes backup. I would take him only in order to trade him when Nurk is back.
 
My dream is Lebron/AD/nobodies battling Beard/Butler/nobodies for the 8th playoff spot and then having them both get passed up by the Clippers (without Leonard).
 
Wow, I heard Iggy gave an interview about his new book 6th Man and he commented that players go in at half time and the first thing they do is check their phone to see whats on Instagram about their play.Aslo, agents might being conveying to stars they better get 25 tonight so they can keep up with so and so.
I think cell phones are the mark of the beast! lol
 
PtldPlatypus said:
If Boston basically swaps Kyrie for Kemba, do they drop off at all?
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The culture seemed so bad last year.... just swapping Kyrie for Kemba, even though they lose Horford...they may end up with a similar record.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Well this is a surprise.

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https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/d/diallch01.html

Not bad stats in limited minutes. This is the exact type of value guy that Neil is great at targeting. He's a capable big to play defense, catch lobs, and do not much else. Houston could probably replace Capela with this guy and lose not too much.

Plus: when he blocks a shot you can display "Cheicked at the rim!" on the jumbotron. I know the people that run these things love bad puns.
 
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