With two useful seasons ultimately tainted by allergies to defence that often coincided with the Spring, Vasquez was able to rehabilitate his value to the point that I’m not sure if the package for Ty Lawson is any better. Another buy low opportunity that Ujiri pounced upon. He was held in impossibly low esteem by a Sacramento front office that goes through more quality point guards than Charles Barkley does fat jokes. The Vasquez trade is great in isolation, and straight up terrific when viewed in the prism of this trade. Clipper’s lottery protected first round pick in 2017.If some hardware wasn’t enough compensation for John freaking Salmons, Masai also poached Nogueira, whose high leaping and smooth passing play this summer reignites hope that he can a solid rotational piece in the future. All of this while staying healthy and weathering the storm as the top 2 options nursed their own injuries. While his chucking ways were incredibly painful to watch ( a trait carried over from his old team no doubt) , he was nevertheless the Raptors’ third most important player last year. In exchange, the Raptors received a year of 6th-man of the year winning play from Lou Williams, whose stock was at an all time low when the Raptors acquired him.
#The rudy gay trade free
Lacking cap space to pursue a top free agent last summer, the Hawks ended up giving up two very nice pieces in exchange for the opportunity to ultimately sign…. While John Salmon’s play was nothing to write home about, his contract ended up being extremely valuable. There really is no need to wax poetic on what Patterson is: a useful starter. Resigned last season to a team friendly contract that looks minuscule with the cap explosion, PatPat is now slotted as the starting power forward, in hindsight an excellent insurance policy for Amir Johnson’s ankles. Let’s go over the return, a textbook example of asset accumulation.
Instead, Masai got the gift that kept on giving. Seriously, the expirings of Rodney Stuckey and Charlie Villanueva were seriously considered. If that trade came to fruition, all benefits could have ended by last summer. While that may sound amazing, I would contend that the Rudy Gay trade could potentially be even better.Ĭonsider this: Raptors fans would have been ecstatic with peanuts in exchange for Gay. That draft pick looks better by the day as the Nuggets officially entered the rebuilding process with the trade of Ty Lawson. He somehow snatched a first rounder for draft pick for Andrea Bargnani. When Masai Ujiri took over the Raptors’ two summers ago, he really got to work remaking the useless items Brian Colangelo had left behind. Essentially, you are able to turn what seems to be a useless item, a paper clip, into tangible assets through shrewd trading. The dream of every general manager in the league is the red paper clip scenario.