The Toronto Raptors Were Surprise Buyers at the NBA Trade Deadline. What now? How do they build from here?

Game Theory Podcast

Sam Vecenie

Sports, Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Sports News, News, Basketball

4.7 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Samson Folk from Raptors Republic joins the program to discuss the Toronto Raptors. The Raptors surprised many by aggressively buying at the NBA Trade Deadline, acquiring Jakob Poeltl from the San Antonio Spurs. With Fred VanVleet and Gary Trent Jr. becoming free agents this summer; the OG Anunoby situation still persistent as he enters the last year of his deal; the Pascal Siakam extension question; buying a potential free agent in Poeltl; the Scottie Barnes: franchise player questions all the still hanging around for the Raptors, where does the organization go from here? They are genuinely in maybe the most interesting position of any franchise in the NBA. LinkedIn Jobs helps you find the qualified candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/theory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:39.6	Hello and welcome to the Game Theory podcast.
0:40.5	I'm your host Sam Vesini.
0:42.8	We are presented by The Athletic today on the show.
0:51.6	It's a Toronto Raptors deadline, extravaganza, I guess, because the Toronto Raptors did not give us an extravaganza at the deadline.
0:53.9	So we had to create one ourselves here.
0:56.1	Samson Fulke is in the building.
0:58.6	One of my favorite people in all of media.
1:02.3	I think he does a terrific job covering the Toronto Raptors.
1:07.7	And we're going to talk about what we expected the Raptors to do, what they ended up doing,
1:11.6	where they go from here, everything in between with this team.
1:17.7	Because I genuinely think the Raptors are maybe the most interesting franchise in the league right now in terms of their potential directionality that they could go as a franchise.
1:23.4	Like they could decide to take a step back and rebuild this summer.
1:26.6	They could decide to go all in
1:28.7	with like another big move this summer which hint hint i kind of think that's what they would
1:34.1	prefer to do if i'm being completely honest uh but we're going to talk we're going to dive in we're
1:39.5	going to go into all of this and discuss everything that is going on with Toronto Raptors.
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