Raptors keep DeRozan

Wow. Thought he was laker bound.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">DeMar DeRozan has agreed to a five-year deal to re-sign with the Toronto Raptors, league sources tell The Vertical.</p>&mdash; Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/748759627945304064">July 1, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Big mistake

 

too bad for the raptors

 

They had to do it. ECF is nothing to sneeze at

 

Cool, would of liked DD on the Rockets, but if not us, definitely like him staying in Toronto.

 

$28 mil for a mid-range chucker. Yikes.

 

Largest contract in NBA history (right now).

Lillard has more money with incentives.

DeRozen is worth the money given his age, production, and general market rate.

 

28M per year for, what?, the 4th or 5th best SG in the NBA when the SG position is comparatively weak than any other position.

1. Harden
2-3. Thompson or Bulter
4 - 5. Derozan and Wade

Raptors really overpaid here.

 

The money being thrown around right now is crazy. I thought we were in a recession.

 

Based on old cap % numbers, this is equivalent to 20m/year in the old NBA.

They really should just have people mentioning cap % that the contract will take now. All these numbers are going to be way way more than we are all used to.

 

$139 million....DAMN

 

Well, technically he's living in Canada. How's their economy relative to ours?:grin:

 

They get paid in USD, and considering CAD has been tanking to no ends recently, it's actually pretty good for him

 

Great move by Toronto, I would have loved to have him here. Good player, improving, if he gets turnovers down and his shooting percentage up he'll be a top 5-10 player for sure.

 

He's a great player, but never going to be a top 5-10 player ever IMO. He's a good scorer, but he doesn't elevate his teammates on offense. He's also not as good of a shooter as you would hope for to ever be in that category.

I can see him being a consistent top 20 player in the league, but not top 10

 

I had some ifs... no need to ignore them.

 

I'm not, I said I could seem him being a potential top 20 player. Even if he increases his shooting, he doesn't do enough to be considered a top 10 player in the NBA.

He's not a lockdown defender or doesn't make his teammates better.