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June 22, 2006

Rasho traded to Toronto in another meaningless trade. Where is Toronto going with this?

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You may have thought that the rest of the trades leading up to the draft would have more significance than Kris Humphries being traded by the Utah Jazz to the Toronto Raptors for Rafael Araujo.

Well, you would be wrong.

After the Toronto Raptors traded their under-sized and under-performing young center Rafael Araujo to the Utah Jazz, they turned around and traded Matt Bonner and Eric Williams to the San Antonio Spurs for correct-sized but underperforming aging center Rasho Nesterovic and the rest of the three years at $8 million per year that were left on his contract.  The two people that they traded away were in the last years of their contract.

For San Antonio, the trade made perfect sense.  Nesterovic wasn’t getting much playing time, especially after having to share time with Nazr Mohammed.  And neither of them played much because Gregg Popovich was often forced to go with a smaller line-up to match up with other quick teams in the West anyway.

For Toronto, they do get an experienced center to play with a bunch of young players including whoever they choose to pick first in the 2006 NBA Draft coming up.  Paying $8 million per year for the next three years seems a little steep for a center whose best years are behind him, but maybe Colangelo knows something that we don’t — he did well enough at Phoenix, after all.

The other question that this seems to answer, unless we see even more trades, is the type of player that Colangelo is planning on picking up in the draft.  With Nesterovic, Villanueva, Bosh, and Humphries, it seems more likely that Colangelo will go after a guard or small forward than another big man.  With three of the top four projected picks playing power forward and center, it therefore seems likely that Toronto will either trade down a few picks to where the guards are projected to go or pick Adam Morrison with the first pick in the draft.

I guess we’ll see.

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