The Toronto Raptors Blockbuster Trade Changes Everything…

The Toronto Raptors Blockbuster Trade Changes Everything…

The Toronto Raptors are finalizing a trade to send OG and Anie Toronto getting RJ Barrett and Emanuel quickly in return the very first blockbuster trade of the NBA season is officially here and fans don’t know what to think about it it’s a player that has been in

Trade rumors for the past year and a half and it’s a player that the Toronto Raptors originally weren’t willing to part with and the same could be said for the New York Knicks as well fans are excited but confused at how the New York Knicks and Toronto Raptors decided to

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Going on everybody the New York knck selected RJ Barrett with the third overall pick in the 2019 NBA draft following Zion Williamson and John morand and given the circumstances that RJ Barrett was in including a head coach that was fired in the middle of the Season he had a pretty decent rookie

Year averaging 14 points per game shooting 32% from three clearly not the player they were hoping he’d be but given the circumstances the Knicks were in it made sense that he didn’t necessarily get off to the greatest start enter Tom Tibido who would put RJ Barrett in his best situation of his

Career Tom Tibido decided to put RJ Barrett in specific spot up shooting situations which would Elevate RJ Barrett’s threo percentage to 40% from around the ark and allowed him to average 17.6 points per game the New York Knicks would also make it to the NBA playoffs that year and would finish

Fourth in the Eastern Conference pair this with Julius randle’s near MV ep season and we got one of the most electrifying playoff matchups in NBA history I mean this matchup versus the Atlanta Hawks is making NBA fans clamor for the New York Knicks to return to relevance because I want to see more

Moments like this last 3 years they’re psych to be back in the postseason and RG bear would even build upon That season averaging 20 points per game the year after and shooting 34% from around the ark however the New York Knicks would finish in 11th place in the

Eastern Conference but luckily for them in the 2022 off season help was on the way the New York Knicks made their best transaction of the Leon Rose era when they signed Jaylen Brunson to a 4-year $14 million contract Jaylen Brunson and the New York Knicks were a match made in

Heaven as Brunson was able to come over from the Dallas Mavericks and immediately averaged 24 points per game shot 42% from three and once again and the New York Knicks were a playoff team the problem is when you’re in these types of situations it gives organizations a little less time to

Place a point of emphasis on their young players development and this is what happened with DeAndre Aon in Phoenix the Phoenix Sons drafted DeAndre Aon with the number one overall pick and he started out great but the moment the bubble ended it was clear that the suns

Were ready to contend and the point of emphasis wasn’t on DeAndre Aton developing as a player developing a three-point jumper or anything of that sort it was more on trying to figure out ways to ensure that DeAndre Aton could contribute to wins for the Phoenix Suns so they could win a championship

Especially once they traded for Chris Paul and the same essentially happened to RJ Barrett he was no longer the focal point of the offense and the Knicks stopped trying to make him the focal point of the offense comp paare that with the fact that Tom Tibido historically isn’t big on trying to

Develop younger players and you started to see RJ Barrett fall back to Earth a little bit he still averaged 19.6 points per game games last season off of 31% shooting from three and this year he averaged 18 points per game while shooting 33% from three but what tells a

Different story is his Advanced analytics throughout his entire career with the New York Knicks RJ Barrett’s Advanced analytics looked terrible just take a look at his obpm throughout his entire career with the Knicks it has constantly been negative look at his dbpm with the New York Knicks throughout

His career it’s also been negative and the combined box plus minus as a result were in the Deep negatives when you combine that with the fact that his VP has only been positive in his sophomore season and his third year with the Knicks and you understand why the New

York Knicks started entertaining moving on from RJ Barrett RJ Barrett was born and raised in Toronto Ontario Canada where the Toronto Raptors play and the Toronto Raptors have had a very bumpy couple of years ever since they won the 2019 NBA Finals but they’re in a very admirable position they’re a team that

Has a plethora of assets and a very promising young player to build around and they’re trying to figure out unique ways to build around said young player however it’s been a very tough start the Raptor started with a 12-9 record clearly the big three of Scotty Barnes

OG anobi and Pascal cakam was not going to succeed which really sucks considering the fact that the Toronto Raptors got a trade offer from the New York Knicks last year that included multiple first round picks for ogan noi but since they waited that additional year OG anobi now becomes a free agent

At the end of the season which means his value plummeted a decent amount and that offer of multiple first round picks was no longer on the table and given the fact that the Raptors are clearly not heading towards the playoffs they really had no choice but to make this trade

According to Adrian wowski Toronto Raptors are finalizing a trade to send OG anobi to the New York Knicks for a package including RJ Barrett Emanuel quickly and draft considerations which is absolutely insane the Toronto Raptors are acquiring a New York 2024 second round pick via the Detroit Pistons and

In this trade is also Malachi Flynn and precious auua so there are multiple thoughts about this trade the moment it went down on one hand New York Knicks fans were pissed off at the fact that the ncks refused to trade RJ Barrett for Donovan Mitchell but here they are

Trading him for Oobi a lot of people are saying that the New York Knicks got fleeced but to be honest if you really did a deep dive on this trade it makes a lot of sense the New York Knicks aren’t that far from being within the top four

Of the Eastern Conference the right trade could potentially put him in a situation where they could be contending in the Eastern Conference I don’t look at the New York Knicks as a team that needs even more offense I look at them as a team that needs significantly more

Defense and from every perspective ogan anobi is an upgrade from RJ Barrett he can hit the three-pointer more consistently he’s remarkable on the defensive side of the ball and is one of the League’s best defenders if you really think about it the New York Knicks were hoping RJ Barrett could

Become 50% of ogan anobi so he could play next to Jaylen Brunson I’m not necessarily worried about that because at the end of the day that is a huge upgrade for the New York Knicks the issue is the New York nicks’s depth kind of takes a significant hit here both

Emanuel quickley and RJ Barrett were handicapped in terms of their future with the New York Knicks because both of them were never going to become the Knicks top player emanu quickly was behind Jaylen Brunson and RJ Barrett was stagnating for the past couple of years

But this is a huge huge risk for the New York Knicks as well because now they need to spend the rest of the year convincing oan and Obi to resign with them as opposed to leaving them in free agency after giving up one of their young assets this is also a remarkable

Story for RJ Barrett because he gets to return to home he gets to go back home to Toronto Canada and play in the exact same state that he was born in Ian Begley mentions that RJ Barrett loves New York and love the idea of remaining in New York her source is familiar with

The matter he’s going to play somewhere else he sees sees Toronto as a remarkable option obviously it’s his home City and he’s the big part of the Canadian national team in the wake of this an anobi trade but one team that was not involved in the discussions felt

Like the Knicks probably should have given up more draft compensation so they were surprised that Nicks didn’t have to give up more draft compensation uh in that trade Nicks obviously having a bevy of first round picks their own and owning four additional first round picks in the future to work with on different

Trades I mean I don’t think they’re done I think this was uh maybe one of of two bigger moves um that are I don’t want to say in the plans but I think General framework of how they’re thinking and so I don’t think they’re done they still

Have assets to work with in terms of their uh draft picks uh some other players but today it’s ogan anobi coming to New York giving the Knicks a very strong Defender and a strong perimeter shooter at the end of the day this trade makes a lot of sense the Toronto Raptors

Get a a brand new Young player that was born in Toronto to pair with Scotty Barnes maybe it works out maybe it doesn’t at the end of the day at least RJ Barrett will be under contract but in addition to this the New York Knicks fill in multiple positions of Need for

Themselves for example they had a 38 year-old Taj Gibson playing meaningful minutes for themselves at the backup center position precious auua takes up those minutes thank God Emanuel quickley will provide instant offense Emanuel quickley didn’t really have much of a future on the New York Knicks with

Jaylen Bruns and his ceiling has now increased and what makes this even more exciting is now everyone’s eyes are turning to Pascal seum Pascal seum has been involved in Golden State Warriors rumors for quite some time now and according to Adrien wowski the Raptors are expected to continue to explore

Trades involving Pascal SE yakum now another interesting tidbit from this is the fact that the Golden State Warriors recently said that they would be open to trading Andrew Wiggins according to to this Insider though I’ve said in the past that the Warriors might be reluctant to trade Wiggins I’ve since

Heard that this would not be a major barrier for the Warriors to explore wiggins’s trade market especially if he can’t play with Jonathan kaminga and the Warriors decide that kaminga is their full-time small forward Andrew Wiggins was also born in Toronto Ontario Canada so the Toronto Raptors have an

Opportunity to do something really cool here if they’re compensated for it properly Pascal cakam is without a doubt their biggest trade chip at this point so they would need to get adequate compensation if they were to trade him for a package centered around Andrew Wiggins while Andrew Wiggins was in the

Midst of one of his worst seasons to date at the end of the day I give the New York Knicks an a they needed to make this trade for quite some time Oobi is a huge upgrade precious aoua also helps them fortify their bench a little bit

And for the Toronto Raptors I give them a B minus they should have made this trade about a year ago that’s my only critique about them I’m happy that they were able to get something for Oobi but at the same time what were you thinking

Did you think the big three of Pascal SE yakum Scotty Barnes and ogan noi were magically going to win you a championship this year grade the trade for me in the comment section down below and if you missed our previous upload we uploaded it literally 4 hours before

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