Most NBA players want to stay in the US. Raptors couldn't even bring back Leonard after winning a championship and pretty much handing him the keys to the city and the full red carpet treatment.
Only way is the Raps can trade for an elite talent with 1-2 years of control left and hope during that window they can make the Finals.
Yeah Pascal looked a lot better this season than the last two seasons. He's still not a superstar/franchise guy to carry a team, but definitely a very strong secondary piece if the Raptors were able to bring in another elite player like how they did with Leonard for 2019.
Making the playoffs for this team after the start they had was a big accomplishment. Raps are heading in the right direction. Barnes will only get better, OG as well as long as he's healthy. Nick Nurse and his coaching staff is one of the best in the game! Hope in the next 2-3 years, Raps are back to being legit NBA Final contenders.
Kind of weird timing as well because Detroit was trying to rid themselves of the Prince Fielder contract and traded him after 2013.
Tigers made the postseason in 2014 though they became sellers in 2015 after trading away Price and Cespedes. Such bad timing to give Miggy that extension. Glad the Blue Jays never gave Bautista a huge contract extension after 2015.
I hope Vladdy Jr doesn't have the same type of career trajectory when he hits his early 30's. Hope the Jays lock him up until he's 32 or 33 and can win a World Series or two with guys like Vladdy, Bichette, Teo, Springer all still healthy and in their prime.
Yeah, his last great season was in 2016. Since he's been replacement level or worse.
I think he would have already been forced to retire after 2017 if it wasn't for that monster contract. Maybe a team would have signed him to a minor league contract or a cheap one-year deal, but he would have had to agree to that as well. Look at Jose Bautista after 2018, nobody even wanted to sign him or roll the dice on him. Only way Bautista would be playing today is if a team handed him a huge contract after his 2015 or 2016 season.
I think if he was a free agent during that time, he would have been forced to retire unless a team signed him to a cheap one-year or minor league contract and that's if he would have accepted it. He's still getting paid $32M for 2023.
Raps fought hard tonight. Thought they could have pulled it through and it would have changed the outlook of this series big time. Sucks they couldn't hang on. Some missed free throws at the end really hurt as well.
Embiid made one of hell of a shot.
Yup, I wanted to watch the Dodgers/Reds on Friday night and said it was an Apple+ game! Like WTF? If I knew it was going to be like that, likely wouldn't have renewed for 2022.
I hate how the games exclusive for Apple + we can't watch on MLB.TV! Two games yesterday were Apple + games and couldn't even watch them, let alone any Blue Jay game. Ridiculous!
The Green/Red I'm assuming means the ticket is valid/not valid. I don't think any middle-aged adult would have a problem walking through the turnstiles with a senior ticket. The attendants at the turnstiles just stand there and welcome people in or help people scan the barcode. Most of them are young anyways paying their way through college, doubt they have the audacity to approach someone in their 40s or 50s and ask if they're a senior.
Pretty much every manager rides their best relievers into the ground during a long postseason haha.
Agreed, Cubs had such a solid overall team so anyone could have managed the team and still had the same success.
At the end of the day, he still managed them to a World Series after how many years? I don't think he'll ever have to buy dinner again in Chi-town haha