Sometimes it pays to do your shopping early.
As Toronto Raptors fans get increasingly restless with the perceived inactivity of president and general manager Masai Ujiri in a free agent market that hasn’t been open for a week, he got a lot of this summer’s work done a year ago.
And in this age of incredibly rich contracts thanks to an infusion of money into the system, his purchases came at relative bargain basement prices.
Imagine in this financial atmosphere if he had to deal with restricted free agents Jonas Valanciunas and Terrence Ross; the cost might have been crippling.