The Raptors announced this Wednesday afternoon that they have extended qualifying offers to Fred VanVleet, Malcolm Miller, and Nando De Colo (yes, still). As the tweet below states, this means Toronto keeps their restricted free agent rights. Other teams can try to sign them, but the Raptors can match the offer and that’s that.
The @Raptors have extended qualifying offers to Fred Van Vleet, Malcolm Miller, and Nando De Colo to retain their restricted free agent rights.
— RaptorsMR (@RaptorsMR) June 27, 2018
The case for keeping VanVleet is obvious, and we’ve made it a million different times in a million different ways (here’s the latest case).