Another smooth free-agency from Masai Ujiri and his Raptors who will still be a real treat to play next season. The soldiers present have extended and another is now arriving from the Bay, this is Otto Porter Jr., freshly crowned with the title of NBA champion 2022 with the Warriors.
Here is a very Toronto profile, very Nick Nurse who arrives in the country of Justin Trudeau and maple syrup. OPJ, a real champion of the outgoing champions’ bench and pure 3&D that it is better to have with than once morest you, arrives at the Dinos to bring all his knowledge of the game and his cunning to a surprising workforce but which perhaps really needed this kind of experienced player to take it a step further. Scottie Barnes, OG Anunoby and others are already preparing to receive valuable advice, but let’s get back on topic. Otto Porter arrives for a year with a player option. The amount of the operation has not yet been disclosed, but it might well be the MLE (Mid Level Exception), which would represent a great operation on the part of the Canadian front office. The mass exodus continues among the now ex-Warriors replacements, with the departure of Gary Payton II in Portland and Juan Toscano-Anderson on the Lakers side in Los Angeles.
Free agent Otto Porter Jr. — vital member of Golden State Warriors championship team — reached an agreement with the Toronto Raptors on a two-year deal with a player option, league sources tell @YahooSports. https://t.co/ck81fptKZh
— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) July 1, 2022
For now, it’s a very clean Free Agency that the Raptors are leading. Extension of privates Thaddeus Young and Chris Boucher? Check. By adding an ultra attractive profile that will surely succeed in blending into the mould, the 2019 champions pull off a new perfect shot. We are talking regarding 8.2 points and 5.7 rebounds off the bench, not too bad for a guy who was dragging his spleen in Orlando a year ago, and who was considered overpaid when he was playing in Chicago . Finally, its impact goes far beyond the statistics since this collaboration will benefit both the Raptors and Otto Porter, whose wife is from Toronto. A factor no doubt very heavy when making a decision of this ilk.
The Raptors bench is doing very well, thank you for him. Otto Porter Jr. will come to frame this youth and his contribution will do the greatest good to this surprising team, 5th in the East last year, when they were announced in tanking mode. OPJ is now in its 4th franchise in barely 3 seasons. We can therefore say that it is a mobile Otto. And have a good night of course.