The NBA Finals are well underway, finally, and the Toronto Raptors failed to return that stage in which they earned the 2019 NBA Championship. It wasn’t a bad season by any stretch for the Raptors bowing out of their potential title defense in a second-round seven-game series won by the Boston Celtics.
The Raptors have significant questions that must be solved with signings, trades, or draft picks to fill holes in their roster. One of the first and perhaps most serious considerations determining what the Raptors’ management team does is the salary cap. The cap either provides flexibility to make the necessary transactions or handicaps a team’s player movement depending on how much of it they have committed in long-term contracts.