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What do tou expect. Raptors is stupid organization.

at this point its a tradition to watch this every off season

Even they don't get giannis they do great job by getting kawhi And Marc gasol in 2019 and winning a championship

Masai definitely can see the future cuz how tf does he allways chooses the right player??

must have felt great when Toronto pulled the comeback from 0-2 against the Bucks in 2019.

the mavs GM at the time told mark cuban he’d bet his entire career on Giannis. Cuban refused and drafted tyler zeller and immediately traded him to keep cap space open for dwight fruit fly howard. we got luka so i guess it worked out but man…. a misfire like letting nash walk to sign Erick Dampier.. like refusing to resign brunson for 4y $55M TWICE and watching him walk for NYC…

The raptors know development. Masai has an awesome eye for talent and for good human beings. That’s a lost art. Look at most of the guys drafted by Toronto. Pascal, OG, Fred, norm,delon, JV, Jacob P, Scottie B, precious, the list goes on and on. Next up? Ulrich chomche. 18 year old centre out of Africa. 6’11” and can do a bit of everything. If he’s there at 31 raps Take him 100% (2024 draft)

Giannis won't be the same if he goes to any team other than Bucks

If I ever feel that the raptor are making the wrong decisions, I always goes to this video. Masai has a vision

It’s honestly wild to think how different the Raptors future could’ve been with a young Giannis on their team instead of renting Kawhi for a year.

The raptors originally traded that 12th pick to get Kyle Lowry

He fall short on not drafting thanasis instead

Doesnt seem that desperate lol. Could have easily gotten him if he actually believed in him.

Raptors suck.. glorified g LEAGUE TEAM

Masai knows his stuff

Raptors always pick these weird european players that never work out, and the one time they had a real star, they couldnt get the deal done.

No one saw this version of Giannis coming, people were comparing him to KD earlier in his career before he became a physical force. I thought Trey Burke was gonna be the best to come out of that class.

That's some crap nba is rigged if he wanted SO MUCH he could go up like mavs said .Nba is like WWE and so disappointed that it took me 28 years to understand .Basically everything

Kawhi trade alone puts Masai in hof

Yeah, I dunno. Desperate would be like trading the whole team for Giannis.

To think of the fact that other teams past on him and there was a team that Desparate to land him just shows Good scouting in the Raptors

The Kawhi trade wasn't genius; it was a huge gamble. He traded for the biggest superstar diva in Spurs history.....to stop the KD dubs from 3 peating. Just think about how ludicrous it was. Hiring nick nurse, holding onto most of the bench mob, trading for Gasol, that was genius.

Since they missed out on Giannis, they should’ve went for the next best. His brother Thanasis 😩😶🙃

1:48 why the dude face so smirk like that. Dude knows hes collecting a easy bag or dont like the helping the color of that man

And then the following year they drafted Bruno Caboclo thinking that he would be the next best thing 😂

BS, if you really want a player you throw the house at the player. He KINDA SORTA wanted Giannis.

That raptors team wouldve won 3 rings with giannis wtf

This is Raptors open gym this isn’t unseen footage

Who’d they draft that year

I was watching that draft praying we'd draft Giannis!

I would’ve sold the farm for 10

Nigerians!

i wouldnt say that was desperate

thank god they couldn't

Masai Ujiri is one of the smartest people in basketball. The man was made to be an exec in this league.

I miss OG on the Raptors 😢❤ much love

Unpopular opinion: Masai is good at drafting, not at building teams that can win it all. I know he won with the raptors, but I feel confident to say that those Philadelphia 76ers and injured Golden State were two lucky match up for that team.

what was masai going to offer? they had no picks. also they would have had a 12th pick in 2013 but they traded it in 2012 for kyle lowry

Lowry, DeRozan, and Antetokounmpo is a crazy what if

That's gotta be an episode of something lol

i didnt know business of basketball was this serious

Let’s not let this overshadow John Hammond. The GM that ACTUALLY drafted Giannis at the 15th pick and made history for my city of Milwaukee!! #FEARtheDEER

Appears to have worked out for them. They got a championship not too long after this. Nothing is guaranteed, so we can’t say for certain whether raps would have won a chip with Kyle, Demar and Giannis. They definitely wouldn’t have been able to keep up with 3 point shoutouts versus the dynasty in golden state. But maybe they could have locked em up. Who knows?

The most underrated GM in the league and it’s not just one thing either he have multiple good examples as to why.

Yet they passed on jokic

Masai trading Derozan for Kahwi was the best move in NBA history of any GM

Where did you find this?

Just goes to show that these players are nothing but commodities to the higher ups.

Who did they pick that year?

Sounds like this Giannis guy will be pretty good, hope his career works out