Cameron Johnson will be a Toronto Raptor [OPINION] 

regardless of whether this comes to fruition, this is a pretty impressive analysis of transactional dynamics beyond the surface level stuff

Best raptors channel bar none. Your videos are really justified in being as long as they are. Packed full of information. I learned a lot on this one.

Insight is what sets Pensare Basketball apart from every other basketball RU-vidr, podcaster or media head out there. Thinking about things nobody else notices is hard. Not everyone can do it. Lots of very smart people can't do it. So let's all appreciate how unique and thought-provoking Rob's content is instead of distilling everything down to right/wrong.

If the Raptors can trade for Cam it would solve so many question marks surrounding the team. Cam is honestly a plug and play type of player. He would look really good on this team as a complimentary piece; strengthens: IQ, shooter and defender. Plus that Darko connection is real. Let’s not forget when Cam was on the Suns they made him untouchable in certain trade talks. The only way they traded a player like Cam was if they had an opportunity to trade for a player like KD. They did, and if the Suns could go back to the KD trade I believe the Suns would do anything in their power to keep Cam on their team. Would be a great get. 💯

Thanks for your sincere and honest insight and recognition of how the NBA works Rob. People need to hear (and understand) the truth I always enjoy hearing your perspective. You are a revelation, and you ARE appreciated. 💯 👍

Your video is a subtle masterpiece on the nuances of the game of life.

Thanks, Rob. Always a good brain journey.🙂

Cam is super well-spoken and has an amazing BB IQ! I can see him going in the coaching direction in the future.

I'm a Phoenix fan from way back and watched Cam a lot the years he was there. The player he reminds me most of in the NBA is actually Grady Dick. Great shooter moves well without the ball and surprises you with intangibles like the odd cool pass.

Your the best Rob appreciate your commitment in putting out thoughtful and great content 💯🙏🏻

Hey, you hit the 10.6K! Congrats 👏

Agree with your logic. I'd like to include Sharpe in the deal if possible.

Eff the trolls , you're doing great bro

U are completely right about everything that u are saying

i'm convinced. it appears as though the Raptors are owed a lot of favours and perhaps now's the time to cash some of these in with Cam Johnson on the trade market. gonna send u a cash reward if you're' right and they pull this off lol

It's a nice fit if trade happened and Johnson was fairly healthy. I agree Raptors will not actively tank to start the season. As you've stated multiple times now, you do your best to compete and give yourself a target date to see a competitive team. If they don't live up to that the Raptors can pivot and shut guys down, play the young guys more minutes etc. For now assume Raptors will be trying to win again, same as they did this year and the year before.

Thanks!

We do need another big and Cam Johnson would work. I just don't want to give away too many picks. If they did take Bruce Brown and maybe a couple of seconds that would be a good deal.

I like the Cameron Johnson fit a lot, but it really depends on what the team would need to give up to sweeten the pot along with Bruce Brown. How much would you be comfortable with, Rob? Also, these last two lives (both of which I have watched after the fact) demonstrate a really good understanding of how humans/groups of humans who are competing with each other work together over time. It seems to me like your understanding of that stuff has improved. I'm not saying this to imply that you did not understand it at all before (your comment regarding the "follow the money" lesson happening in your early twenties means as much), but it does feel like you've now got an enhanced understanding of the fact that sometimes the optimal move for the future of an organization is not scraping every last milligram of advantage from every single transaction. Also, in addition to your valid point about how trading VanVleet for a song might well hurt his market (something that Masai alluded to) and piss off Klutch I do think there were a couple of other reasons not to trade him to consider. 1) The team was genuinely considering bringing VanVleet back if the price was right. There's a reality where that team makes it through the play-in and it kind of revitalizes the desire to keep the team together. Personally, like you, I am happy that the team has moved on and I like how they're building now, but I can understand the desire to see how things work with Poeltl and how that improves the club and Fred's production. If they make a sneaky run to the Conference Finals (exceedingly unlikely, but not strictly impossible in a weak Eastern Conference) is there any doubt that they might well have felt compelled to bring Fred back? Getting healthy, a reasonable expectation that Scottie might well have an end of year breakthrough, the addition of a capable starting center and a bit of luck and that team had at least a puncher's chance of surprising. It's reasonable to disagree with that assessment of course, but I can understand the front office wanting to give it one more shot with that group. 2) If the entire league sees you selling VanVleet for fifty cents on the dollar just to get SOMETHING before you let him walk in the offseason then that signals to the league that you might be prepared to get lowballed on the other players who everyone publicly claims you "value too highly" (I am paraphrasing of course, but we heard a ton of that kind of language about OG and Pascal). If we say that the Raptors got "5" value for OG (not a grade out of ten or anything, just saying a number for comparison's sake), but would have only been able to extract a "3" for him if they had traded VanVleet for a "1" return (a random second in some distant draft plus some salary filler of let's say utterly neutral value relative to its price) then the team came out ahead by not making that kind of move. Sending the message that you will not fold out of fear of watching a player walk and if a team wants your guy then they are going to have to come correct counts for something. So whether you saw him staying or going there were good arguments for not trading Fred away on a discount. If the alternative is trading Fred for some meagre future value, pissing off everyone in the process and letting the league know you can be easily had in a trade then you'd better be pretty freaking confident that your odds at landing Wembanyama are going to get a huge bump. Given where the team was in the standings and the flattened lottery odds that's not a bet that I would have felt great about taking. Please correct me if you addressed point two in the OG trade lives as it's been long enough that I honestly don't remember right now.

Scottie is that a 1 guy all nba next year or atleast snub

You are amazing the only thing I don't like about your videos are too long and this is just a suggestion

I’m guessing when it’s all finished, we’ll finish 7 or 8th with the growth from the core. Is that reasonable?

Do you think Cam would take away developmental minutes from Grady/Walter next season?

I think people may be concerned about CJ's injury history!

Ngl looking back at live chat was so wak

I’d rather get Dorian Finney Smith instead.

good content but rob you look tired man

one issue with the incentive for the Nets to be bad next season- while they do have 3 firsts (OKC, Houston, Phoenix), Houston owns swap rights to their 2025 pick if they suck. edit: I stand corrected, they traded to negate the Houston swap

@19:03 "You gave them a starting PG to help them tank in Dennis Schroder" The Nets were not looking to tank as the Houston Rockets own their FRP, that deal wasn't a "favor" it was mutually beneficial for both teams because the Raports were looking to tank to try and save their protected pick, they also got an expiring to help pay Immanuel Quickley! Im a Nets fan and I just don't see The Nets trading Cam Johnson JUST to trade him, it will have to be for a positive return and as you said many times Bruce Brown is not worth his contract. I also don't see why Cam Johnson would want to leave for Tornoto

His our starting sf. Weak in that position

Insane clickbait 😭

Kids are out on summer vacation.. hence the increase of idiocy.