Raptors Trade Reports ESCALATING – Stephen A. Smith BACKING on Scottie Barnes | Raptors News

Raptors Trade Reports ESCALATING – Stephen A. Smith BACKING on Scottie Barnes | Raptors News

After the Toronto Raptor’s embarrassing and demoralizing loss to the Houston Rockets trade reports have been escalating over the past 24 hours or so and frankly how could they not anyone that watched that game anyone that watched highlights of the game probably anyone that just looked at the box score

Of that game could see something’s off with this team and likely it means something’s going on behind the scenes and given all the context of the trades that just happened the sort of split in this group it’s likely some trade stuff so we’ll break down all the latest regarding the Toronto Raptors trade

Scenarios additionally Stephen A Smith has come out and supported Scotty Barnes he’s back in Scotty Barnes after he was snubbed from the allstar game this year and yes I get the winning stuff and things like that but with Julie Randle and Jo Joel embiid likely out for the

Allstar game there been a lot of speculation about who’s going to be brought in in terms of the short list of guys that were snubbed in the Eastern Conference you know some of the initial reporting indicated that there were some shaky names out there ahead of Scotty Burns in terms of potential Replacements

Which I got fired fired up about but Stephen A Smith had a lot to say about that sort of situation so lots of stuff to dive into in this video but before we do folks again over 58% of our viewers are not subscribed to the channel we

Want to keep you up to date with all the latest Toronto Raptors news so mean the world to me if you guys could hit that subscribe button appreciate you guys watching as always but let’s dive in the news and the first thing we’re going to

Take a look at is Stephen A Smith back in Scotty Barnes after getting snubbed now Stephen A Smith is a guy who rarely talks highly of anything regarding the Toronto Raptors when we won the championship he said how disappointed he was about the chip going to Toronto it

Should never happen again they shouldn’t have star players the hockey country all those types of things and he wants the championship in the United States and he’s had some shaky sort of criticism some shaky takes regarding Toronto Raptor players in the past so you know there’s been a lot of criticism thrown

The way of uh Stephen A Smith just how he covers the Toronto Raptors and how he covers Raptor players and we get it you know no one’s going to watch all the games and all the teams he has to talk about all these Sports and stuff but

He’s made some rough takes regarding the Toronto Raptors and often disrespectful takes to this team so again it’s rare do we see things come out that are really positive from Stephen you know for a Toronto Raptor player and it happened ended up happening sort of yesterday basically Stephen A Smith on his show

Came out and discussed the Eastern uh conference Allstar reserves and how you know players are going to come in and get replaced and stuff like that and on the short list of players particularly that he described as uh potentially coming in he particularly went in a little Divergence talked about Chris

Staps porzingis there as a player that he’s thought about you know obviously with the Nick connections I I would be shocked if he named Chris saps poris or gave any respect to him whatsoever but he said he’s been deading between two guys really in terms of who we’d like to

See come in and get that spot it’s between Scotty Burns and Trey young and frankly I think Trey young was snubbed as well he’s averaging like 30 and 10 I don’t have his stats specifically pulled up but he’s having a monster season sure sure the Hawks are losing as well but I

Mean he’s put up some ridiculous numbers there’s been some turmoil in Atlanta he doesn’t have that great of a team around him I mean Trey young has been awesome if he makes it over Scotty Burns I’m not going to be that disappointed but Stephen A Smith basically said even out

Of those two guys he’d probably run the route of Scotty Burns talked about all of the trades and the transitions that have gone on with this team and Scotty Burns has remained solid even though he definitely was he’s not I want to say a downward trajectory but he’s not putting

Up the same numbers he was earlier this year the same efficiency but I guess that makes sense when the defense is more focused and locked in on you but he said even though the Raptors are losing a little bit you know the Toronto Raptors Scotty Burns should be an

Allstar this year how he’s you know gu’s developing potential face of the league you know that’s what dark rakovich sort of said H Stephen A Smith had some criticism in that regard when Darko had those types of comments but gave some praise to Scotty Burns so I appreciate

That always appreciate the troll Raptor love now his argument he made again in this video for why it should be over TR young didn’t really make sense he basically said that Trey young was on a losing team now he did go on to say that you know they’re losing because their

Defense isn’t great and Scotty’s a two-way guy and Trey young is a guy that’s horrible on defense and his team needs defense so he’s not providing what the team needs to specifically win whereas the Trona Raptors are in sort of a different influx scenario don’t have

All that talent and stuff so he did give some context to it but I did find it funny that the Raptors are worse than the Atlanta Hawks so far this year and that was the main reason as to why Stephen A Smith chose Scott Burns over Trey young but you know Scotty barns

Getting love from anyone I appreciate it I was pretty shocked when we saw the names of Miles Turner Derek white get listed in terms of the next up players you know for that All-Star selection even though Dereck white they’re on better teams this season but there is a

Line you know there’s a line between playing good and stats and all those types of things and Scotty Barnes has the stats to be significantly better and the fifth best player on the number one seed in Eastern Conference that’s just my take but you I know people get fired

Up about all that type of stuff so let me know in the comments section what you guys think about all that but the next thing we’re taking a look at is Raptor’s trade reports escalating as I said in the intro how could they not again I know looking at the comments section not

A lot of people are watching Toronto Raptors games at this point because why would you the team sucks right now and they’re playing sort of disheartened and last night was probably the worst sort of display we’ve seen from this team all season long with the exception of maybe

A couple of the games leading up to especially the Pascal cakam deal OG an anobi really struggled before he got traded to the New York Knicks but now it feels like the whole roster has that sort of even though there were some good games I mean quickley was pretty solid

Scotty Barnes is pretty solid but again not playing that uh the team as a whole just looked out of it looked Zapped of energy looked demoralized and that was the sort of the the essence of the players that were out there on the court prior to the past past ghost yakum

Trades like even going back previous series when big deals end up going down because obviously the players hear Rumblings before these deals actually happen now we’re getting more and more reports coming out basically the first one is from Doug Smith who’s said after the Toronto Raptor brutal loss the

Hybrid of veterans and rookies isn’t working for Messi Jerry and Bobby Webster and they must be mulling over some more roster moves he discussed how again the two uh guys the main top dogs in the front office there’s a lot of pieces on this team specifically Dennis schrudder specifically Bruce Brown

Specifically you know even thus young here now at this point are all three guys you know that have been notably thrown out in trade discussions Perle been sprinkled in a few of these later reports recently and basically those are guys we can all expect multiple deals to

End up happening Chris P doesn’t even play now at this point despite the Raptors being depleted the forward spots and the most uh direct thing that Doug Smith sort of revealed is how the front office is definitely not happy with the lack of minutes guys like war and Grady

Dick are sort of getting not breaking the 20 minute Mark I believe in last night’s game or getting a ton of runs so you know watch for some moves to potentially open up some minutes for the guys that the front office thinks have some potential to really break out for

This team in the future so let me know what you guys think about that additionally we have a report uh coming from Mark Stein I wasn’t even grab the screenshot of it but basically the Knicks still interested first round pick the the tonal Raptors aren’t stepping back from their first round pick that

They’re demanding in a potential Bruce Brown trade offer they’re going to wait till the trade deadline to make something go down so that’s coming for Mark Stein and then a guy that has hurt his credibility as of late particularly this season but Matt M has been making

More definitive takes but he had a report basically talked about the Lakers and Bruce Brown and the Knicks and things but basically that uh the LA Lakers had to at least get temporarily moved away from talks uh for Toronto Raptor guard Bruce Brown who they had interest in at the deadline last year

This continues to be nothing billowing um as after the Deonte Murray all those reports that have been coming out you know with the Hawks potentially trading him to the Lakers been lots of drama along those lines and then Mark Stein again D’Angelo Russell strong play he’s less likely to potentially get dealt and

Then back to Bruce Brown the Knicks continue to be mentioned as a potential landing spot but New York has been seeking bigger deals Brown might be end up being the plan b or plan C option for the New York Knicks outside uh an outside Source has suggested but with

The Raptors notoriously High offer marks uh very for various assets the finally trades of Pascal cak and ogan noi have not erased skepticism that the Raptors will be tough to team to trade value from so again that seems a bit specula and Matt Moore has been a little bit

More of a sketchier source as of late but I definitely believe the last paragraph in terms of front offices you know it seems very conjecture based you know it’s not something that’s solidified in terms of trade talks or something like that but I can definitely see you know other teams still being

Skeptical about being finessed by messiou Jerry and potential trade topics but does that mean I think Bruce Brown’s going to stay no I don’t think the Knicks are going to pull off some crazy trade here now at this point again there’s lots of rumors about Jordan Clarkson Kelly linck check out Nick s

Just they’re covering things like crazy down there on that channel but I mean Bruce Brown is probably the best type of fit that a Tom timido Le team could potentially uh land out there on the open market for a reasonable price so keep your eyes peeled for the New York

Knicks being a squad that potentially makes a trade with the Toronto Raptors but let me know what you guys think about all this Toronto Raptors news you guys the best making this far subscribe to the channel if you guys haven’t already I’m signing out cheers

The Toronto Raptors have been linked to many players in recent weeks and the latest reports indicate that multiple trades are on the horizon. Additionally, Stephen A. Smith shows his support for Scottie Barnes after being snubbed for the All-Star game. Ben Rogers breaks down it all down.

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0:00 Toronto Raptors News
1:19 Raptors Trade Reports ESCALATING
5:02 Stephen A. Smith BACKING on Scottie Barnes

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