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2024-25 Season: Draft, Trades, and FA Ideas Thread V1.0

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Re: 2024-25 Season: Draft, Trades, and FA Ideas Thread V1.0 

Post#361 » by TheRaptor! » Thu Jan 30, 2025 5:14 pm

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Nebuchadnezzar wrote:https://basketball.realgm.com/nba/teams/Toronto-Raptors/28/Home

Lol, this board is slow how about dem "Raptors pivoting towards winning Brandon Ingram rumours" via Stein

Would not be a fan - I prefer share the ball players rather than ball dominant players.


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Post#362 » by RoteSchroder » Thu Jan 30, 2025 5:38 pm

BCbudraptorfan wrote:it seems like were off of rj being that piece next to scottie which is good news


We need to get off building around Scottie instead of building with him first
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Post#363 » by HangTime » Thu Jan 30, 2025 6:48 pm

RoteSchroder wrote:
BCbudraptorfan wrote:it seems like were off of rj being that piece next to scottie which is good news


We need to get off building around Scottie instead of building with him first



Scottie is the new version of a #1 option.

Who'd you rather build around?
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Re: 2024-25 Season: Draft, Trades, and FA Ideas Thread V1.0 

Post#364 » by agkagk » Thu Jan 30, 2025 8:28 pm

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causal_fan wrote:
Nebuchadnezzar wrote:https://basketball.realgm.com/nba/teams/Toronto-Raptors/28/Home

Lol, this board is slow how about dem "Raptors pivoting towards winning Brandon Ingram rumours" via Stein

Would not be a fan - I prefer share the ball players rather than ball dominant players.


Every good team has an alpha gimme the damn ball and watch me cook type of guy


Quickly is that guy.

We just need the grit grind and development culture reestablished before we drop our quickly spoon in the soup pot.

Rj quick wiggins Scottie Jacob
Bench mob 2.0

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Re: 2024-25 Season: Draft, Trades, and FA Ideas Thread V1.0 

Post#365 » by UnbelievablyRAW » Thu Jan 30, 2025 10:03 pm

Toronto Out
RJ, Bruce Brown

Toronto In
Herb Jones, Simone Fontecchio, Tobias Harris, Tor 2025 SRP, Was 2025 SRP

NOP Out
Ingram, Herb Jones

NOP In
RJ, Bruce Brown

Detroit Out
Tobias Harris, Simone Fontecchio, Tor 2025 SRP, Was 2025 SRP

Detroit In
Brandon Ingram

Toronto trades RJ and an expiring BB for Herb on an excellent contract and 2 seconds. Both Tobias and Simone are expiring contracts. Toronto gets worse this year and improves our own pick which can then be paired with IQ and Scottie. Herb is a perfect POA defender to compliment Scottie as well. The additional seconds are both top of the second round and with 3 seconds in this draft we can potentially package them to a contender who would rather save on paying a second rounder at pick 30-33 vs a first rounder at picks 26-30.
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Re: 2024-25 Season: Draft, Trades, and FA Ideas Thread V1.0 

Post#366 » by Spida888 » Thu Jan 30, 2025 10:24 pm

UnbelievablyRAW wrote:Toronto Out
RJ, Bruce Brown

Toronto In
Herb Jones, Simone Fontecchio, Tobias Harris, Tor 2025 SRP, Was 2025 SRP

NOP Out
Ingram, Herb Jones

NOP In
RJ, Bruce Brown

Detroit Out
Tobias Harris, Simone Fontecchio, Tor 2025 SRP, Was 2025 SRP

Detroit In
Brandon Ingram

Toronto trades RJ and an expiring BB for Herb on an excellent contract and 2 seconds. Both Tobias and Simone are expiring contracts. Toronto gets worse this year and improves our own pick which can then be paired with IQ and Scottie. Herb is a perfect POA defender to compliment Scottie as well. The additional seconds are both top of the second round and with 3 seconds in this draft we can potentially package them to a contender who would rather save on paying a second rounder at pick 30-33 vs a first rounder at picks 26-30.

Herb is one of the best value contracts so I'm not confident Pels would trade him with RJ as the center piece, but I would do it for the Raps. I don't even need the SRPs really, those would be gravy. Feels like the Pels need more as well since they're giving up both Ingram and Herb.

Tobias has been good for DET so I wonder if they actually want to keep him and trade Hardaway instead. My slightly tweaked version is:

Toronto Out
RJ, POR 2025 SRP

Toronto In
Herb Jones, Simone Fontecchio

NOP Out
Ingram, Herb Jones

NOP In
RJ, Hardaway Jr., POR 2025 SRP, Tor 2025 SRP, Was 2025 SRP (realistically maybe some FRP is involved)

Detroit Out
Simone Fontecchio, Tor 2025 SRP, Was 2025 SRP

Detroit In
Brandon Ingram
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Post#367 » by agkagk » Thu Jan 30, 2025 10:46 pm

Rj is better younger and cheaper than Ingram.


No no nooooooo


We’re trading the best player and getting the third best player in the trade


No noooo noooooo


So many draft picks missing

Nooooooo
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Re: 2024-25 Season: Draft, Trades, and FA Ideas Thread V1.0 

Post#368 » by UnbelievablyRAW » Thu Jan 30, 2025 11:35 pm

Spida888 wrote:
UnbelievablyRAW wrote:Toronto Out
RJ, Bruce Brown

Toronto In
Herb Jones, Simone Fontecchio, Tobias Harris, Tor 2025 SRP, Was 2025 SRP

NOP Out
Ingram, Herb Jones

NOP In
RJ, Bruce Brown

Detroit Out
Tobias Harris, Simone Fontecchio, Tor 2025 SRP, Was 2025 SRP

Detroit In
Brandon Ingram

Toronto trades RJ and an expiring BB for Herb on an excellent contract and 2 seconds. Both Tobias and Simone are expiring contracts. Toronto gets worse this year and improves our own pick which can then be paired with IQ and Scottie. Herb is a perfect POA defender to compliment Scottie as well. The additional seconds are both top of the second round and with 3 seconds in this draft we can potentially package them to a contender who would rather save on paying a second rounder at pick 30-33 vs a first rounder at picks 26-30.

Herb is one of the best value contracts so I'm not confident Pels would trade him with RJ as the center piece, but I would do it for the Raps. I don't even need the SRPs really, those would be gravy. Feels like the Pels need more as well since they're giving up both Ingram and Herb.

Tobias has been good for DET so I wonder if they actually want to keep him and trade Hardaway instead. My slightly tweaked version is:

Toronto Out
RJ, POR 2025 SRP

Toronto In
Herb Jones, Simone Fontecchio

NOP Out
Ingram, Herb Jones

NOP In
RJ, Hardaway Jr., POR 2025 SRP, Tor 2025 SRP, Was 2025 SRP (realistically maybe some FRP is involved)

Detroit Out
Simone Fontecchio, Tor 2025 SRP, Was 2025 SRP

Detroit In
Brandon Ingram


The Pels are lucky to be getting a positive asset in RJ for Ingram in the first place. RJ has actually played better than him, is less injury prone and younger. Herb is the sweetener for us to take him for someone of value. I’d be willing to include Ochai or the worst of the Ind/Tor 2026 FRP. Maybe the POR second to NOP and we keep the other 2 seconds from Detroit.

I wouldn’t care either way between Hardaway or Harris coming back to Toronto in my iteration because neither are on the team next year
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Re: 2024-25 Season: Draft, Trades, and FA Ideas Thread V1.0 

Post#369 » by UnbelievablyRAW » Thu Jan 30, 2025 11:43 pm

agkagk wrote:Rj is better younger and cheaper than Ingram.


No no nooooooo


We’re trading the best player and getting the third best player in the trade


No noooo noooooo


So many draft picks missing

Nooooooo


RJ isn’t netting multiple picks from anyone. Herb on his current contract probably has higher trade value league wide than RJ. Herb also fits what we will need long term better.

Given this team is likely to draft a guard in the 2-7 range, getting a POA defender in Herb, who is in a class of all defense players, would be huge.

RJ and Ingram are bigger names but will also command 30+ million annually whereas with just Herb we get to use that cap space else where. Neither of those 2 look like championship level guys either. Herb does
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Re: 2024-25 Season: Draft, Trades, and FA Ideas Thread V1.0 

Post#370 » by Thaddy » Fri Jan 31, 2025 12:42 am

I'm gonna say it now. Asa Newell will be a better player than Bailey 5 years from now. Why isn't there concern about his ball hogging and low assist numbers?

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Re: 2024-25 Season: Draft, Trades, and FA Ideas Thread V1.0 

Post#371 » by RoteSchroder » Fri Jan 31, 2025 12:43 am

HangTime wrote:
RoteSchroder wrote:
BCbudraptorfan wrote:it seems like were off of rj being that piece next to scottie which is good news


We need to get off building around Scottie instead of building with him first



Scottie is the new version of a #1 option.

Who'd you rather build around?


How can he be a #1 option with worse scoring than RJ Barrett and non-elite playmaking though.

I’d rather build around a #1 option
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Re: 2024-25 Season: Draft, Trades, and FA Ideas Thread V1.0 

Post#372 » by Thaddy » Fri Jan 31, 2025 12:44 am

RoteSchroder wrote:
HangTime wrote:
RoteSchroder wrote:
We need to get off building around Scottie instead of building with him first



Scottie is the new version of a #1 option.

Who'd you rather build around?


How can he be a #1 option with worse scoring than RJ Barrett and non-elite playmaking though.

I’d rather build around a #1 option

Other number 1 option prospects have a problem where they have holes in their defense, passing, rebounding or another significant part of the game that's hard to develop. The holes Barnes has are easier to fill and he's shown flashes of being able to figure that out.
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Post#373 » by Thaddy » Fri Jan 31, 2025 12:46 am

"Raptors have “a ton of interest” in Brandon Ingram" - Jake Fischer

Marc Stein wrote on this as well which makes this a legit rumour to me.

Video:
https://bleacherreport.com/videos/651293-raptors-interested-in-brandon-ingram
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Re: 2024-25 Season: Draft, Trades, and FA Ideas Thread V1.0 

Post#374 » by RoteSchroder » Fri Jan 31, 2025 12:48 am

Thaddy wrote:
RoteSchroder wrote:
HangTime wrote:

Scottie is the new version of a #1 option.

Who'd you rather build around?


How can he be a #1 option with worse scoring than RJ Barrett and non-elite playmaking though.

I’d rather build around a #1 option

Other number 1 option prospects have a problem where they have holes in their defense, passing, rebounding or another significant part of the game that's hard to develop. The holes Barnes has are easier to fill and he's shown flashes of being able to figure that out.


He’s shooting 27.2% from 3 and has a TS% of 53.9

Elite scoring is probably the hardest thing to fill out and our number #1 option doesn’t even have above average scoring.
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Post#375 » by KingSebastian » Fri Jan 31, 2025 12:50 am

Thaddy wrote:"Raptors have “a ton of interest” in Brandon Ingram" - Jake Fischer

Marc Stein wrote on this as well which makes this a legit rumour to me.

Video:
https://bleacherreport.com/videos/651293-raptors-interested-in-brandon-ingram
Ingram is a smokescreen....the real target is Zion

RJ and Zion back together is the mission.

If you watch the end of the the last game in Toronto, there is a quick moment on the screen where Zion and Sam Mcdadi are posing together. Seemed like some familiarity between them...
Zion has secured his real estate agent for the pending move up north.


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Re: 2024-25 Season: Draft, Trades, and FA Ideas Thread V1.0 

Post#376 » by agkagk » Fri Jan 31, 2025 1:16 am

UnbelievablyRAW wrote:
agkagk wrote:Rj is better younger and cheaper than Ingram.


No no nooooooo


We’re trading the best player and getting the third best player in the trade


No noooo noooooo


So many draft picks missing

Nooooooo


RJ isn’t netting multiple picks from anyone. Herb on his current contract probably has higher trade value league wide than RJ. Herb also fits what we will need long term better.

Given this team is likely to draft a guard in the 2-7 range, getting a POA defender in Herb, who is in a class of all defense players, would be huge.

RJ and Ingram are bigger names but will also command 30+ million annually whereas with just Herb we get to use that cap space else where. Neither of those 2 look like championship level guys either. Herb does



Ok good trade

Rj for a late first or something


lol.


We’re not trading him for herb jones cause you think he isn’t worth multiple picks.


Spoiler warning: yes he is.
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Re: 2024-25 Season: Draft, Trades, and FA Ideas Thread V1.0 

Post#377 » by Mr Swagtastic » Fri Jan 31, 2025 3:13 am

Some of these YouTubers are way off with their value. Saw a guy talking about Bruce Brown to Detroit for one of Asur Thompson, Ivey or Holland. Yeah that's a no from Detroit's end. Why trade one of those guys for Brown?

Brown probably gets you a late first and bad salary
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Re: 2024-25 Season: Draft, Trades, and FA Ideas Thread V1.0 

Post#378 » by Psubs » Fri Jan 31, 2025 4:53 am

Zion Williamson, Antonio Reeves, Karlo Matkovic and Jeremiah Robinson-Earl (waive)
For
Ochai Agbaji, Kelly Olynyk, Davion Mitchell and Chris Boucher
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Post#379 » by navyblue » Fri Jan 31, 2025 4:58 am

Mr Swagtastic wrote:Some of these YouTubers are way off with their value
Psubs wrote:Zion Williamson, Antonio Reeves, Karlo Matkovic and Jeremiah Robinson-Earl (waive)
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Ochai Agbaji, Kelly Olynyk, Davion Mitchell and Chris Boucher

YouTubers and realgmers apparently
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Re: 2024-25 Season: Draft, Trades, and FA Ideas Thread V1.0 

Post#380 » by bballsparkin » Fri Jan 31, 2025 6:01 am

Psubs wrote:Zion Williamson, Antonio Reeves, Karlo Matkovic and Jeremiah Robinson-Earl (waive)
For
Ochai Agbaji, Kelly Olynyk, Davion Mitchell and Chris Boucher


lol, how could i say no to that.

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