While it seems like only yesterday we were wondering if the Raptors would trade their starting centre Jonas Valanciunas, in last night’s episode of Open Gym we got a very different story.
Here’s JV as he meets up with team president Masai Ujiri at the BioSteel Centre. You can feel the, hmmm, emotional tension?
Both men know things were cooking at the trade deadline — the Raptors did make two moves that week. But happily (I mean, come on, look at JV’s smile), neither involved Valanciunas.
Of course the main takeaway here isn’t that Masai didn’t trade JV at the deadline.