Linkage – July 16
It hasn’t been announced yet – which is why you folks are so darn lucky – but Carlos Delfino, I’m told, is heading to Russia.
I’m guessing he’s getting something in the neighbourhood of $5 million a season over there, which is far more than any legit offer he got from the NBA.
What’s it mean for the Raptors? Nothing, really.
They retain his rights for as long as the qualifying offer (about $2.7 million) is on the table (a year) but it’s not included in the calculation of the NBA’s tax.
I heard Carlos had a couple of offers in the NBA – the most significant coming from Detroit – but that the money wasn’t close to what he wanted.
A lot of concern about Rod Benson out there and why he hasn’t played a minute for Toronto’s summer league team.
He had a bit of a sprained knee that kept him out of the first two games and he might be able to go tomorrow when they play again.
But don’t get too excited. Spies in Vegas tell me the Raptors really aren’t that high on him, even if they were looking to fill their 13th roster spot with a big, which they aren’t.
He’s a good blogger, though.
Barcelona agree to sell Croatia guard Roko Leni Ukic to the NBA’s Toronto Raptors for $650,000 (£324,357).
If healthy Jack feels that this move could be a positive step for the Toronto Raptors. He said that it allowed you to turn T.J Ford into a high quality player. In the Orlando series Jack said that Raptors only had 1 of the 5 best players in that series. That one of course was Chris Bosh. Now Bosh has a second star to play along side him. Even if this trade did not workout or blowup due to injuries Jack as many have said points to the hugh amount of cap space the Raps will get when O’Neal is off the books in 2010. Jack said if the Raptors did not take this chance and try to shake things up they would remain at the same level and not improve. In fact with the improvement to the Conference and Division you could even make the case that the Raptors would slide lower.
I decided to go in another direction and contact those who have watched and listened to him over the years. The fans of the Bobcats and Grizzlies.
I contacted Bobcats Planet, Queen City Hoops and 3 Shades Of Blue to ask what they thought of Devlin as a broadcaster and what we can expect as we delve into like after Swirsky.
Here is what they had to say.
Interesting tidbit on C.J. Giles in the Raptors’ portion of this story about the NBA Summer League. Apparently he’s hustling in camp and in games. What a concept. He had eight points, four blocks, four rebounds and eight fouls for Toronto in 22 minutes, or about his entire season’s production with the Beavers.
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