Colangelo Working on Small Deals Before Deadline

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As Thursday's NBA trade deadline approached, Toronto Raptors president and general manager Bryan Colangelo wasn't planning to have any major additions to his lineup.

 

"We're still working on a few things, mostly small," Colangelo said Wednesday before the Raptors faced Chicago. "Not a lot of major significant things."

 

"We've talked about this rebuilding process," he said. "We've got a plan in place we're talking about bringing in young players, bringing in young assets, creating more flexibility as much as possible so we can be a player in free agency.

 

"We did not want to compromise that situation. There have been some deals from the start of the season to now even that probably would have made us more competitive by now.

 

"There was a commitment to being patient, letting the young guys develop and come along. We feel like we're accomplishing a lot of that. We've got the stages of this development happening and we've made tangible progress."

 

He said if he had done a deal to bring "more veteran talent to put us in a playoff competitive environment and yet kept us in neutral so to speak" it would have hampered the plan.

 

Add to that the Raptors' own high draft pick this year and the salary cap flexibility that has been achieved.

 

"It's all kind of set up for this next jump but there's some painful steps along the way and we're experiencing that with the win-loss record," said Colangelo.

 

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I don't really see much else happening for the Raptors. Maybe a trade that will ship somebody like Sonny Weems or Julian Wright for a 2nd or something if a contender is looking to add an end of the bench depth wing player. Other than that, the Raptors only real trade chips are probably Evans, Barbosa and Calderon, although I don't see anybody taking on Calderon's contract and Evans is still injured. That only leaves Barbosa and I don't really see much of a market for him. I know that Chicago was rumored to be interested in him earlier in the season, but that ship has sailed or else he would've been dealt somehow in the Johnson trade.

 

One thing to keep an eye out for is that Joey Dorsey wasn't on the Raptors bench tonight against the Bulls. I don't know if it was because of an injury or what, but he wasn't at the ACC tonight. I would imagine any deal involving him would obviously have a few more pieces as Joey Dorsey by himself probably can't even land you a half eaten doughnut.

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Do the Bulls have a matching salary or enough value to acquire Barbosa?

 

I know they're looking for a SG who can hit the three...