The hot new name on the buyout market is Jeremy Sochan, a recent Top-10 pick waived on Wednesday by the San Antonio Spurs. Signing Sochan would be the ultimate boneheaded move by the Toronto Raptors, a mistake they must avoid at all costs.
At first glance, the Raptors going after Sochan is the exact kind of move they would normally make. They have a love affair with former Spurs bigs, from their blind devotion to Jakob Poeltl to signing Sandro Mamukelashvili this past summer. The "Mamu" deal has worked out, while the Poeltl deal keeps getting worse and worse.