The NBA draft has come and come gone, and the Toronto Raptors are no different. The team was absent from the offseason’s most important night after trading two picks a little less than a year ago.
With no draft pick, the Raptors are left two remaining options to improve their roster, free-agency and trades. The former seems unlikely; Toronto currently sits more than $26 million above the cap and that is before a probable Fred VanVleet pay raise.
The team does still have its Taxpayer Mid-Level Exception worth approximately $5.3 million. That’s enough to gain a rotation-level contributor, but certainly not enough money to significantly impact the future of a team.