Raptors Summer Planning: Making the Free Agent Decisions

Tom Szczerbowski-USA TODAY Sports Last time out, we took stock of what the Raptors’ current salary situation looks like, as well as how their cap sheet is trending for summer 2020 and 2021, to get an idea of the big picture before diving into the decisions to be made this summer.

So now having done that, let’s dive into some of the upcoming calls to make.

Patrick McCaw is a restricted free agent. To maintain his rights, the Raptors will need to extend him his qualifying offer (QO), which is a one year contract offer for $1.9M. He can accept that, or negotiate another deal with the Raptors or another team. The Raptors don’t have his Bird or Early Bird rights, so offering him a contract above…