Off-Season Deal: Porter Jr. for Brown/Boucher/2026 Pacers 1st/2028 Raptors 1st

[Bentley1225]

Ill offer this idea for:
-Nuggets create greater financial flexibility beyond '24-25 season as they brining back Brown who could potentially start and Boucher provide frontcout depth
-Raptors add the SF/PF in mid 20s as they look to immediately try to rebound in EC and contend to better degree in '24-25 and beyond

To Denver
-Bruce Brown (1 year, $23 million - T.O. exercised)
-Chris Boucher (1 year, $10.8 million)
-2026 Pacers 1st round pick (1-4 protected)
-2028 Raptors 1st round pick

To Toronto
-Michael Porter Jr. (3 years, $115 million)

Why?
-The Nuggets create more financial flexibility if they want to re-sign KCP to a 3 year deal and look to extend Murray/Gordon. They could re-sign Brown long term next summer for smaller cap hit.

Murray/Jackson/Pickett
KCP/Braun/Watson
Brown/Strawther/Tyson
Gordon/Nnaji/Cancar
Jokic/Boucher/#28

-The Raptors add a SF/PF in mid 20s to round out starting core and build around Quickley/Barrett/MPJ/Barnes/Poeltl. Raps can let GTJ walk in free agency.

Quickley/FA?/Freeman-Liberty?
Barrett/Dick/#31?
MPJ/Agbaji/Nwora?
Barnes/Olynyk/McDaniels
Poeltl/#19/FA?

[UnbelievablyRAW]

I think MPJ's contract is horrible but I don't think they can afford to let him go without significantly making their team worse. I think this is Denver pretty much punting on MPJ for picks because I doubt BB or Boucher are on the roster at the start of the next season

[Godaddycurse]

I wouldn't trade Brown and Boucher for MPJ straight up, let alone add picks. We are nowhere near contention enough to be spending future assets and/or going into the tax next year when scottie's extension kicks in. OP is a big swing and miss for Raptors

[psman2]

I wouldn't pay this for Toronto. I think they need to spend the year figuring out if they have a core in place before jumping in front of a contract like MPJ and paying assets for it.

Den would need better win now talent to pull the trigger, this is good value though so I think we could make it work with 3/4 teams here.

[Domejandro]

Directionally, this seems bizarre for the Toronto Raptors.

That aside, I am starting to think that Michael Porter Jr. is getting underrated because Minnesota locked him up. Against the Los Angeles Lakers, he averaged 23/8 on 55/49/77 splits. I probably wouldn't trade for him unless I had a high-movement offense with strong facilitators, but outside of a brutal series against a generational defensive squad, he is a tremendous shooting threat.

I would be hesitant to trade him given how he syngerizes with Nikola Jokić if I were Denver (especially given how restrictive the second apron is for getting an upgrade).

[HartfordWhalers]

Yeah, directionally I would want to get paid as Toronto to take this risk, while needing to not get worse on the court as Denver. Fits seem real poor.

[Tripod]

Not a chance the Raps do this. Remove the 2 picks and it can be debated.

But then in the debate, people remember Porters brother just got banned from NBA.

Nope a chance the Raps trade for MPJ. The want the Porter memories to disappear....this goes for Otto too!

[Myth]

I’d be more interested to see upgrades are available for MPJ plus picks rather than splitting MPJ into smaller pieces.