BREAKING: Raptors Sign Quickley to MASSIVE Contract - Gary Trent Jr. Now GONE? | Raptors News
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I'm smiling man! How can't you luv this core-3?????
As a guy who has watched the NBA for 40+ years, the Raptors since '96 - I can tell you, IQ is a stats filling guy, who improves your team. He doesn't sit back, he takes over. We haven't had a PG like this since Lowry, and before that you have to go all the way back to Mighty Mouse DS before we can boast about a take over PG. The man is a 20+ per, with chucky stats everywhere else, type of player. A future all-star - great core 3 with SB, IQ, and our brother-in-arms RJ (who was running down at will like Giannis, and driving the net with unstoppable force during his brief playing time at the end of last season - he figured something out).
He's not a good playmaker,he's a shooting guard at best
5 years $175 million I'm glad he got paid. I thought the Knicks would keep him but that OG trade was worth it. IQ got paid more than Brunson, RJ, and Randle. Now y'all have your PG of the future. I'm happy for IQ. Y'all still have more moves to make.
@@wearegodswithamnesia ya like signing Jalen Smith who just hit UFA
Ehhhhh no. Hes not. Hes a good stats mid team at best guy.
Perfect 6th man.
He’s nowhere close to Kyle Lowry.
IQ at 35M and OG at 43M a year and people thought RJ's 26M/yr deal was an albatross....how "Quickley" things change.
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No way you're compare RJ to OG... OG brings so much more to the table.
@@MykeLeung In terms of value you're damn right I'm comparing the 2. NY thought RJ's contract was literally an albatross because they weren't using him properly. Now he's an absolute steal for 26M.
Say what you want to about OG - I loved him with the Raps, but 43M AOV for an oft-injured 3 and D guy with weak handles and little offensive improvement over 7 years is NOT any kind of value. The Knicks thought they'd be able to lock him in for 30-35M, but paying him 48M in his age 31 year is the actual albatross.
@MandoGuerrero2 10000% agree. Loved OG but you really can't expect so much money for 3 and D without insane pint conversion like Kawaii.
35 mil/year is the new 25/mil a year with the new Tv deal
still cheaper than FVV hehe
FVV is wayyyyy better
@@bluejaym237 😂😂😅😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@rulz2663 I notice you're trolling and saying this wasn't an overpay. You're funny kid
@@bluejaym237FRED IS THAT YOU??😅
@@bluejaym237yo FREDDY WHATCHA DOING ON A BURNER?
I’m a Knicks fan and I’m very happy for IQ we really didn’t want to see him get traded but it was a business decision and we have to live with it. I’m so glad for him to get the bag he deserves.
Feel the same about OG
Yup, im glad OG got his money as well.
I like IQ but dayum
Sometimes we need to understand we have to give some of these players a little extra to play here. We have some of the highest taxes out of most NBA cities and you’re asking some young player to leave his country to go to another country and live. This is why soccer players get paid ridiculous amounts of money. Look Rolando is playing all the way in the Middle East but they have to pay for that. We have almost always overpaid guys to stay here. This isn’t Miami, LA, NYC or some basketball Mecca with crazy history where guys have dreams of playing. Sometimes you’re asking some guy from Alabama or somewhere to move to Toronto Canada where almost everything is different. Some people here think you can always draw these guys with “caribana” an American person might be totally coulees and loss to Caribbean culture.
It makes sense. I guess that's why we also have to be known for developing young guys to attract attention as well.
@@mikeyjameshe's fleecing y'all 😂he's not that caliber of a player to get 35 but u gotta pay to play I guess
They had him on the court and in the locker room and know what they got. They know what they are paying him and why.
He's not championship contendership leader though,good role player but not someone who should be a point guard
Wow didnt think IQ could demand that much.
Thought he worth slightly more than Malik Monk, not nearly twice as much, and Monk is only a year older.
It'll be a cheap contract in 3 yrs on your cap hit and he's now operating in an offense with less mouths to fill. It could be a steal very fast similar to Brunson
Really happy with the Raps locking IQ in for 5 years!
In Canada too 😐that's tough
Most expensive bbq I’ve ever seen
Real nice wit
quickly may very well be worth this contract... one day. he is currently unproven to receive this salary, but that is how things go sometimes. you put your faith on educated guesses and hope for the best. what quickly does have is work ethic, strong character and a high ceiling. as for gary, he will EASILY get $25m+ elsewhere so there is no way he is staying. gonna miss gary and wish him all the best.
@@mogwai_for_sale how?raptors not close to winning a chip if save 5 million and give him 30
35 million per year is such an overpay for Quickley..
Actually not bad for value - great 3-level scorer, quick and able to run the offence. Look at the fair market value for similar guards, it's not that bad.
What you gonna do? Let him go?
@@gavinchan2672 tbh I wouldn't use words like 'great' so casually, in fact, if you look at other starting point guards in the NBA he's probably below average
@@fringe_minority I'd do my research before trading for him, they said he wanted 25mil at NYK, but 35mil? is stupid.. this franchise is laughably overpaying one of the worst rosters in the NBA and that is the truth, we dead and going nowhere, thanks masai
Not really give him a full season being as the lead guy an then make Judgements he was learning dark trash offense I think dudes goi g to Fringe allstar þhis year an I thi k raptors gonna surprise ot of ppl this year @@flynngoodwo
Wow.... I thought he'd maybe get $30mill per but $35? Other teams must have been lurking and driving up the price. That's a lot. Hopefully he continues to improve and this becomes a good deal. Crazy.
Now I expect Brown and Trent to walk for nothing more than cap space.
20 ppg scorer last year with the team and only getting better. 19% of the cap for a player of his quality is great value
Bruce Brown? He's not a free agent he cannot walk until next summer because Toronto still owns him for a year
@@Bergamot88 raptors have until 12 am tonight to decided if they want to pick up Bruce team option or let him walk. If they pick it up Gary is most likely gone
@@nCC____ lol.
Come on man of course they're gonna pick him up. He is an asset for the organization. Too many assets have already walked away over the years
Very average output to make 35 million, but i guess, top, contracts will be 60 million soon.
100% - he’s shooting 43% too.
I think they need to keep Trent. He could earn more and still be a steal defensively, and he is an offensive threat, albeit an inconsistent one. Secondly. If you watched the post draft interviews with the new guys, you had a solid sense Quickly was coming back
Maybe the owners have finally seen the writing on the wall. You have to pay, to play, to win. Tax team baby.
Raptors not winning nothing with this overpay 😂😂😂
I think that puts us over the cap just retaining most of the guys that gave us 25-57 record last year. Actually it is worse because we will lose Trent jr. now we have no money left and next year lose Boucher and have to scramble to find money for Barnes. Looks like a very tough situation. Maybe a decade long rebuild? I love Quickley and am happy about this deal but the business as a whole is being run very poorly at the moment.
That's my fear too. Basically the same team with no cap space AND no Gary.
Raptors current roster (IQ re-signs 5/175):
CP: Poeltl/Olynyk/Chomche
PF: Barnes/Boucher/Mogbo
SF: Vezenkov/Dick
SG: RJ/Ogbaji/Walter/Freeman-Liberty
PG: IQ/Mitchell/Shead
Free Agents:
GTJ (UFA)
Nwora (UFA)
Temple (UFA)
Malik Williams (RFA)
Two Way Contracts:
G DJ Carton
C Branden Carlson
Exhibition 10:
F Quincy Guerrier
Team Contract Option:
Brown (June 28th Date)
How did you forget Barrett?
that roster is absolutely terrible.
@@aaronlipton2440Rj is barret
@@aaronlipton2440 RJ is Barrett... All the best.
@@IceManLikeGervin he edited the post. RJ wasn’t there originally
Masai got it done... Keep in mind that it's still a tier below og and Pascal... You need to invest in the core in the end
fraud Masai in action
And as a player hes like 5 tears below
On paper a step below but OG and Siakam clearly weren't a good fit with Barnes or maybe they just wanted to move on. Either way RJ and IQ are tight and Scottie basically gets along with everyone.
@@MandoGuerrero2 A step below? A STEP BELOW? Lol
@@MandoGuerrero2 Elite 3&D, a top 10 overall defender in the League Anunoby (probably top 5, maybe the best) and Leading scorer and great defender Siakam are "a step below" ? Cmon man
They are still paying less for Quickley, RJ, and Scottie than they would have had to pay Fred, O.G. and Pascal. And they got some other assets on top of that. It'll be interesting to evaluate this in a few years.
This is a good way to look at it.
Chris Boucher and Bruce Brown can be used as Salary relief for other teams by the trade deadline... a lot of Playoff teams are over the first apron and likely want to make other moves and want the flexibility to dump Salary and the Raps are one of few teams with expiring contracts that can be call upon to facilitate, it will cost them a "Sacramento Kings ransom" and more lol
Overpaid.. Quick not worth that. MASAI MUST THINK WE JUST SIGN TYRESE MAXEY😂.. OVERPAID
Alot better than a walk away for sure. I like it
Massive overpay
Read the room.., everyone is being overpaid, at this point.
@@rulz2663 lol
1st Scottie. No Quickley. When is Barnes contract up? RJ is locked in through the 2026-27 at $29.6 M. This is good. RJ will need a raise then. Quickley is way better than FVV. No comparison. He's faster and younger gives 100% effort 100% of the time.
Should’ve honestly tried to resign OG or Pascal if you were going to pay this much anyways. Im rooting for Quickley but currently he is a poor mans Maxey and not proven at all.
Hopefully he improves but at least we don’t lose him for nothing . At best he improves and earns that money , at worst we can trade him eventually.
Pascal would be good for Gary or Grady. I want to have imo Gary for Pascal.
Maxey going to sign similar to Scottie 5/225/270mill so not too bad for Quickley.
Maybe Masai is planning to leave soon,Smh, this is crazy....scratching my head
We should have kept Siakam and Barnes together along with RJ and IQ
If we can trade Brown ($22M), Poetl ($19.5M), Trent ($18.5M), Boucher ($11.75M), that is $71.75M per year. You can buy a lot of good young talent and train them up to their potential for that. That would buy a "golden bench" and give our young guys a lot of room to grow. We could also bank that money and go after a great young player or two.
IQ now makes more than Jalen Brunson.. let that sink in. Guarantee you won't here ESPN talking about how the Raptors overpaid. 😂
Quickly getting paid too much he's not worth $35 million. He only should be paid $25 million per yr for 5 yr.
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This team is gonna shock people next year. 1 through 15, theyre more talented.
Inflation: in 5 years that 35 is worth 20 in today's money
One thing i feel so optimistic and now hyped, is to see the future of this Raptors team. We saw a slight glimpse of what this team can be when they had that small 3-0 streak after Scotties All star nod. Then the injuries came and had a collapse..but a learning collapse cause it was a new team after the trades. RJ, IQ and Gradey just kept improving their game. Now add an even more improved Scottie and the new drafts (given some time), and this teams gonna dominate the league. As a fan since 95, the way this team has been assembled by Masai, I have never been so convinced this team is gonna be so good as the years go by.
I’m a die hard Raptor fan since ‘95 too
Are you willing to be near that luxury tax to get OG? I am 😂
I think two more two-way forwards would be awesome. Especially if people are dead set on losing Jakob for some reason
When the new broadcast numbers come out this contract will look like a steal. NBA money has gotten crazy stupid.
The Gary/Beal analogy is truth. They were both getting paid too much and they were both untradable.
In Masai we trust...I guess. Our core group of guys failed miserably while healthy and now we are throwing money at them. We were gaslit last summer with expectations that everyone had a great summer and were going to level up. Well the opposite happened, and I'm not drinking the Koolaid twice. This time I'm going into the season with rock bottom expectations so I'm not devastated with disappointment like this past season. So far, with all the new faces, I expect 35-40 wins with an outside chance that at making the play-in. We've seen a pile of players shit the bed after getting the bag. I'm interested in seeing if that will be the case again for our players who got paid. I'm elated that we finally got rid of Jalen McDaniels. If history is a teacher, watch him have the best season of his life now that we've traded him. 🤪
We need to salary dump Boucher and maybe even Jakob Poeltl both of them making a combined 30 mill and they are never worth 30 million for both
I don't understand why are we paying these players but couldn't pay vanvleet siakam and og
"Masai overpaid."
- armchair couch executive
Excellent contract for Manny. Take care of our guy
Given the choice, would rather play Quickley that than Trent
Both nyc and the raps overpaid on the two players ...but wtv good for them and us
Raptors got robbed quickly
Can we sign nic claxton? Is there any way we can turn poetl and/or brown for edey from Memphis? I really thought there was a move there on draft day 1.
huh? are people not paying attention, this contract is completely reasonable, I expected at least 30M
I like his play and he fits team and SB. His Def needs to be better. 5 at $150 mil would have been fair. This is over pay.
Raps stay outbidding themselves
Ah yeh man ujiri and Webster must be crying all night man . Lol they have to finally pay the ballers.
25Mil player MAX to me. Overpay.
Those contracts are insane. As part of the audience I refuse to be part of those paying highway robbery tickets. Really to the normal person it`s an insult and sports are out of control with pay.
The lineup does not look good. Under 500 team!!
Bruce brown's team option will be picked up. salary cap relief for teams is at a premium. i believe teams will trade for him to get a 1 year expiring of 23 million for a serviceable player for playoff teams. i dont think knicks are in on him now, but its possible mavericks, golden state, lakers and possibly hawks may trade for him. chicago really depends on if they are able to resign derozan. if bulls resign derozan then i can see them trading brown for lonzo contract.
Isn't Gary only still on the team because he opted in to a player option which was an overpay at the time? I wish him well but why are we pretending he could be coming back?
We will be laughing at this signing when the core 3 keep building the chemistry together Mitchell as the shut down guy and the raps may be better then we think the youth movement has begun and it could be very bright
It’s not that he didn’t want to or think that pascal wasn’t worth the money it’s that he didn’t fit there anymore with Scotty barns and the direction we are going it didn’t make sense so we got something for him before he walked , just to be clear he definitely would have loved to keep him if we still had that type of team that was just a smart business decision
You have to sellout every game going forward so sign these young studs now.
This number tells me other teams have made it clear to IQ's agent that they would have a max offer sheet on day one of free agency.
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5mil more than preferred
PASCAL wanted not just 5-6 more than this number. He wanted a MAX 50+
he is all star of course understandable he commanded max contract. that is how things work teams have to pay for proven talents
What a disaster for Gary Trent Jr.
raptors literally over pay everyone... poetl, quickly, trent, khem birch
that's how we keep those player in north
Nobody is playing here without getting paid. This isn’t some nba Mecca. We’re in another country expecting young men to leave their country and come here for the same money as a American cities that have less taxes than we have. If I was in their shoes I would ask for bigger bag to.
seems we will have a non-championship team with no depth maxing out the salary cap
No depth? Are you not watching what I am watching? We’re like 12-13 deep right now.
@@rulz2663needed to consolidate some contracts to get a good player through trade but instead we overpaying way too much smh
💯 no clue what the raptors are doing…
Not that I mind the Quickly signing....that's the going rate. But Raptors management have been pathetic in drafting, trading and signings in the past five years. Just pathetic that these the President and GM are living off the championship laurels all these years later.
@@rulz2663 are u kidding ? Who is the top 5 off the bench?
What about RJ is he a free agent?
Brown jakob and trent all need to go
You have to pay to play 🔥🔥
Happy belated birthday IQ! 25 years and 11 days in, you've won life! Do good things with it Fam!!!!!
Massive overpay...
Why lose GTJ for nothing?
@@Tdzzz450 hopefully we can get him on a team friendly deal or do a sign and trade . We’ll find out today or tonight 😬
with sasha vezenkov and davion mitchell contracts of around 12 million, it eats up gary trents money to sign him. sasha vezenkov and grady dick can replace garys production at a cheaper price combined than what gary trent jr is asking for which is 17-20 million a year for 4 years.
@@giovanni-ed7zqit’s the truth..
@@giovanni-ed7zq Sasha leaving for Europe, so GTJ back on the table?
@@Tdzzz450 you have to look at it this way, there is reports that came out saying vezenkov is under contract this season and has a team option the year after so he cant just leave.
in addition with vezenkov the raptors only had 13.3 million. even without him they have 19 million. they still have to sign walter, mogbo, shead and chomche to contracts and also they have to pick up javon freeman libertys partial guarantee, so they dont have the money to sign gary regardless.
raptors dont have the 18-23 million a year for 4 years that gary wants before going into luxury tax.
How do y’all feel about resigning Nwora? I think giving him a 2-3 year deal for close to minimum is a no-brainer deal, but perhaps not?
@@mitch3DG he played good last year so signing back to a minimum contract would be nice . I “think” though we are over the maximum amount of players
@@BuddyTerrifico I read somewhere that Sasha wants to return to Europe so if he leaves I hope we sign Nwora for a like for like position.
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Leave Gary alone
why don't they let him get offers and then beat the offer he is an RFA, you can get him for less if his top offer is $20M
that is probably what happened. he did get offers and toronto had to match.
@@mogwai_for_sale pretty sure offers are public information and I did not hear of any.
Like the knicks and OG... we had to. Overpay? Hopefully we dont think so in 2-3 yeats
I am happy that IQ got himself paid and Raptors fans should be excited { 100% NYK fan and will always support our own]
Les goooo
35mil is the new 20mil. It should be a good contract in years 3-5.
This is crazy,love Quickley but this too much money
Good lord this makes the replacement as my favorite knick's contract seem more reasonable. Thank you.
It’s amazing news. Happy about it now we get to work.
Now the roll of the dice on Vezenkov becomes more important imo. If Darko can tap into his potential then these last 2 days really could change the franchise Outlook.
They need to find lower priced value somewhere. Lol
Overpay ..but if they had to do it , oh well let’s go. I love his game him and Barnes are exciting to watch .
I'm excited IQ is an important player let's Go Raptors!
To everyone saying this is an overpay: what if someone offered quik 40 a year and he walked?! There was no other option, now we have our core for the next 3-5 years
A liitle expensive, but 5 yr locked with scottie, at least we have a stable high potential young core
im cool wit it. i like him a lot. got some young guys. let em run next year. and go into the 2025 draft which is supposed to be one of the all time best draft classes. we gotta be prepared to miss playoffs next year… that draft is gonna be amazing though.
Is Sasha even going to play for us? He is back home in Bulgaria and reported to the kings that he was not returning.
I hope we can somehow keep Trent man, at the very least to flip him in the future. If that means letting Brown walk then so be it cuz clearly his value isn't that high.
Def worth it yall who feel this is a overpay are a bunch of scrubbs we locked our man in the general of our future .. if u don't see it there's a reason u are casual fans of the game and not the gm making deals
He better play like jalen brunson lol
Not even close..
@@vintagepimpage6049 he's not that kind of player,he's a shooting guard at best he's a average playmaker
@@NuLORD66 Brunson is also a score first guard so I just want that same energy is what I was saying... Brunson is also very average at playmaking
@@Edd_LShore how so??
@@vintagepimpage6049 u crazy saying brunson is a poor playmaker,when he's on the floor players find their spots compared to him not being on the floor,quickley isn't a good passer not saying brunson is lbj passer but compared to quickley he's far superior as quickley is more 2 guard but maybe he can improve as a point time will tell
This is just what the NBA is now. Any starter after the rookie contract starts at 25 mil a year
I'm happy happy happy we are going to have a great team very soon and fun to watch again too
That's bigger than rj holy
now he needs to keep hustling, to make this team going
Happy for Quickley
NOICE!!!
Can't believe anyone would pay gtj 20 million for no defense ans 14 points a game
lol. 20m a year now going rate for average player. gtj could get that much once bissddibng war started