Toronto Raptors: one surprise name kept, while a bunch are waived

The Toronto Raptors made a bunch of roster moves today. Most were unsurprising, but keeping Chris Boucher was a shock. How can he help the team?

The Toronto Raptors made official what we predicted a few days ago, although there’s one player we got wrong. The team has waived Deng Adel, Eric Moreland, Kyle Collinsworth and Kay Felder. The departure of the last three was anticipated (we’ll come back to Adel later).

However, the last man standing was super-skinny tall (I can’t call him “big”) man Chris Boucher. He has agreed to an Exhibit 10 contract, which allows him to be assigned to the G League’s Raptors 905 squad. He can be called up to the NBA team under certain circumstances which are too…