David Gowsell

@Mitchell_Sider @ShamsCharania @Raptors You literally said he plays 50 games and they're top 3. You can't even acknowledge how many wins are needed for seeding. You haven't mentioned anything beyond subjective opinion on him as a closer. You've offered no insight. But go ahead and consider yourself some who can talk

@davidgowsell @ShamsCharania @Raptors With all due respect David, those who can’t comprehend anything past the next 24 hours can’t enter ball knower conversations. I wish you the best of luck figuring out what you’re gonna have to dinner with the small optics you possess

Just in on NBA Today -- the Toronto Raptors land Kawhi Leonard in a trade back from the Los Angeles Clippers:

@Mitchell_Sider @ShamsCharania @Raptors 😂😂 there's people on here that can actually talk ball. Have good day

@davidgowsell @ShamsCharania @Raptors You’re not seriously comparing the rosters are you? That kinda proves me point even further lmao. They didn’t have anyone close to the Scottie we just saw and if you’re gonna be a doomer what’s the point of following the raps at all?

@steveujnsjwn @ShamsCharania @Raptors A rookie drafted in 2030 is going to need at least two season before becoming an impactful player on a championship team. If you draft him 2030 that's the 2033 season before they're ready at which point Scottie will be 33. You've essentially said this is the last piece of help

@davidgowsell @ShamsCharania @Raptors we just established no picks beyond 2030 are being touched in this trade?

@Mitchell_Sider @ShamsCharania @Raptors Because the Clippers have definitely been competitive that last 3 seasons. Your not going to be top 3 with him playing 50 games. Even if he won 100% of the games he played if he played 50 that's not top 3. 54 wins would have been third this year.

@davidgowsell @ShamsCharania @Raptors Sorry David, you might not have watched basketball in the last 3 years and that’s ok. Raptors just added one of the best closers in the league who even if he plays 50 games just propelled them to the top 3 of the east

@steveujnsjwn @SajjKhan838506 @D3nali85 @ShamsCharania @Raptors You act like there's a lot of bigs available and like you can get a primary scorer without picks or cap space while not being a few agent destination as you said yourself. How are they fixing the problems you listed with what they have available?

@Jermaineshaqui1 @ShamsCharania @Raptors Did you watch his Clippers tenure? He's not getting any healthier as he gets older... Ingram's problem in playoffs was that he was the primary goal of the defense and the raptors had no other options

@davidgowsell @ShamsCharania @Raptors Ingram is similar to DeRozan. Good regular season player but crumbles in the playoffs. Kawhi elevates his game during playoffs . Anyway Kawhi back to Toronto is incredible and nostalgia hits hard

@steveujnsjwn @ShamsCharania @Raptors Contradictory. Not being a free agent destination means you need picks. You have no way to build depth. By 2030 Kawhi will be retired, poetl will retire. You've left yourself with still Prime Scottie, a bare roster, and no picks. 3 years for rookies to develop Scottie will be 33

@davidgowsell @ShamsCharania @Raptors lmao gave away the future. We have the 2028, 2030, 2031, 2032 1st round picks still. Brandon Ingram was already making $40 million, kawhi is making $50 million, and Toronto isn’t a free agent destination. And no one needs immediate contract extension aside from kawhi. Overreact?

@Jermaineshaqui1 @ShamsCharania @Raptors Are you not aware how basketball works? The team was so injured between quick poetl and RJ that is they didn't key on Ingram they wouldn't have been in playoffs at all

@davidgowsell @ShamsCharania @Raptors Did you not see Ingram play like pandemic P this playoffs ?

@SajjKhan838506 @D3nali85 @ShamsCharania @Raptors Do you actually believe he plays more than 60 games and is available when needed? This roster was a couple intelligent moves from being competitive. Now there's no future and the now still has problems with the roster. There's no avenue to be competitive

@davidgowsell @D3nali85 @ShamsCharania @Raptors You're an idiot man. 2 first round and some bums. Lets move on. Good risk for the raptors

@ahart755 @ShamsCharania @Raptors The IRS got involved and a prison sentence was laid down. If the league doesn't suspend him they're screwed for any cap circumvention moving forwards

@davidgowsell @ShamsCharania @Raptors The league won't punish him at all is what I have heard. The Clippers on the otherhand.

@Beave22 @ShamsCharania @Raptors The first intelligent response. Ingram and Dick straight up would be tolerable. 1 first was too much, to give up even more is laughable

@davidgowsell @ShamsCharania @Raptors Toronto Lost this trade by 1 1st Round Pick. Giving up two is too much IMO.

@D3nali85 @ShamsCharania @Raptors Do you understand team building at all?

@davidgowsell @ShamsCharania @Raptors Over what. They gave up couple of first rounders. And that’s it .. what you on about

@steveujnsjwn @ShamsCharania @Raptors 2 First, 2 seconds, multiple swaps, no cap space and every pick they will have will be 10-20. They just gave array the future and left no ability to build

@davidgowsell @ShamsCharania @Raptors destroyed the franchise over 2 first round picks and Ingram?? tweaking

@Raptors I knew it would be bad when you were to cheap to pay Masai but I didn't expect you to destroy the franchise like this. Absolutely no respect for the fans or the product

@robpizzola Realistically the raptors have control of their own picks and a logjam at the wing. Likely if you're talking Giannis the package is approximately: 1. One of Quickley/Barrett 2. Walter/Dick, maybe both 3. First round 2026 and probably 2028/29 4. Swap in 27 Fill the money+2nds

I’m down for Giannis in Toronto. I’m not down for losing Scottie Barnes. Is there a realistic package that doesn’t start with Scottie + picks, or am I just coping? I legitimately have no idea what assets are worth in the NBA anymore.

@suuma810 You wouldn't eat your broccoli, they did the airplane noise and you got distracted

Someone please explain that Commanders trade for Wentz like I’m five years old.