Saturday, May 18, 2013
Raptors looking for a new gm
So The Raptors have until Victoria Day Monday if Bryan Colangelo is the guy to start the 2013-14 NBA season as the Toronto Raptors General Managers or if Tim Leiweke will go in a different direction all together.
So if that is the case it looks like Indiana Pacer GM Kevin Pritchard who was the GM for the past season for the Pacers and maybe able to bring some of the Pacer tough D to the city but he has only been there one season and before that he was the Portland Trailbrazers GM yawn.
The other option is Assistant GM and assistant president of the OKC Thunder Troy Weaver who has seen the raise of the Thunder in his three seasons and maybe he will have learned how to make a great trade like the Thunder did trading James Harden for Kevin Martin and Jeremy Lamb, two first round picks and a second round pick. Weaver was not around the team the team when it drafted Kevin Durant but did see them pick Bryant Westbrook and James Harden in the top 5 picks in the following two years and maybe able to find a gem in the lottery.
But the thing right now is that the Raptors are a couple million over the cap right now so if u try to get ride of the 10.7 million to Andrea Bargnani or the 9.5 million to DeMar DeRozan u would likely not have that 17-18 million to spend because team will likely not just give a draft pick for players with these kind of salaries. Instead the Raptors will likely have to eat another team's bad contract instead so it maybe best that Bryan sticks around for the beginning of the season because it is not likely that anyone coming in will be able to do anything with this team until Rudy Gay's contract and then the Lakers maybe lurking around and may want him i even if the Raptors can pay him more and he maybe gone.
I hope the Raptors make the right choice
Tom Mehegan
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