Options and stakes for the Toronto Raptors as NBA Trade Season opens up + Fake Trade Friday Debuts!

In Episode 1536, Sean Woodley goes solo to lay out the options and the stakes at play for the Toronto Raptors as the calendar hits December 15th, unofficially opening up NBA Trade season, before introducing a new recurring segment: Fake Trade Friday! Off the top, Sean digs into the current state of affairs for the Raptors, and details why the next two months represent perhaps the last chance for the Raptors' front office to right the wrongs of the last couple years and set the franchise back on course into the next few years of the Scottie Barnes era. It's the Last Chance Saloon! Next, Sean outlines the ideal outcomes for the Raptors over the next couple years -- both fantastical and unlikely though not impossible and more realistic. Is there any way for the front office to get creative in an effort to retain both O.G. Anunoby and Pascal Siakam to pair with Scottie Barnes moving forward while having enough on hand to reshape the roster in a way that makes sense around then? Or is the more realistic outcome a deal of one of Anunoby or Siakam, with the other being retained to pair with Barnes? Lastly, Sean outlines the things that can absolutely cannot happen for the Raptors over the next two months before debuting Fake Trade Friday with a hypothetical deal that would almost surely work for both the Raptors and New York Knicks, if only that damn lawsuit didn't exist...

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