Thinktank!! Dwane Casey is a candidate for the Raptors Team President job. How do YOU feel about it?
Good morning, Raptor Freaks. Lexi here. It is Thursday and we’re doing the Thursday think tank today and this is a hot button topic that a lot of people have been um a very two-sided topic but in some ways very lopsided topic and I’m in the minority for once which is very interesting as far as uh uh what Raptors fans are saying right now. It’s really disheartening that our fan base is not understanding who Dwayne Casey is right now. And uh well, this is the thing that they hear the rumors that Dwayne Casey’s been interviewed for team president job for the Raptors and they’re reacting and they don’t like it. It’s really weird to me. I don’t understand how general Raptors fan can’t see how Dwayne Casey would be an excellent choice. But I I would love somebody to call in and tell me why they think he’s not an excellent choice for team president because uh to me he’s one of the better choices that we have in front of us right now. And I have all kinds of reasons for it. I know a lot of people on this channel know the reasons I have for this, but I want to educate somebody else. Somebody who can give me a good reason why Dwayne Casey should not be the team president for the Toronto Raptors. uh the new hire to replace Messiah Jiri. Can you give me some reasons? I’ll go on Reddit to go see the reasons that people are putting out there if nobody does give me a call today. But the phone line is open. You can call me and I’ll put your voice on over the air through the phone and we can hear you tell you tell us what your opinion about Dwayne Casey possibly being the president of the Toronto Raptors because some people are very against it. And I don’t understand that. I do not understand why. I really need y’all to explain to me why you would be so against Dwayne Casey being the president because in some ways I see it as a home run. I see it as maybe the best possible move to do at this point. Now some of y’all are saying but this is a downgrade from Messiah to whoever. That’s right. It’s going to be a downgrade no matter what. The hatred that Ed Rogers III had for Messiahi uh it is just it’s the reason and there’s no nothing we can do. We had the best executive in the NBA on our team, but our owner is a piece of crap and he is not uh thinking straight. He’s thinking only out of animosity and grudge and punitive. He’s not thinking that, you know, he just screwed up this this company, the Raptors, by dismissing Eugi. So, it doesn’t matter who they hire. There’s no one that can fill the shoes of Messiah. We know this. It’s going to be a downgrade either way. But Raptors fans, don’t we want to lessen the damage of the hire after Yugiri because there’s no way we can replace Messiah? Messiah is just like that. And anything that happens now is going to be a downgrade. It’s just like Tibido with the Knicks. Mike Brown is a downgrade from Tom Tibido. I’m sorry. They’re not improving because they got Mike Brown. The Knicks are going to have a bad year this year and it’s going to be People are going to be wondering why. And it’ll be partly because that’s a downgrade from Tibido to Mike Brown. And well, we’re destined for a downgrade at team president no matter what because Messiah Jiri is not replaceable Ed Rogers III. And well, we’re going to hire somebody to put in there. Let’s make it at least some damage control. Because this is the thing, if you’re going to hire a team president and throw them in the middle of there in this power structure for the Raptors, you could cause all kinds of problems. We’ve seen the issues with the Toronto Maple Leafs. We’ve seen the issues with other NBA teams and other MLB teams and places like that. Issues maybe possibly with the Toronto Blue Jays where you have different people in the front office that don’t have the same vision. They may be actually very opposite and it could be very dysfunctional for a sports franchise to be run that way. If any Raptor fan cares about this job for team president for the Raptors, the main thing you should be worried about is cohesiveness and working with the existing people that are already working for our team, which are Bobby Webster and Dan Tolsman. So, I don’t give a [ __ ] who they hire as long as they will work with Bobby and there will be no toxicness about it. In some ways, we don’t really need somebody who’s super good at their job in certain ways. Like people want Bob Meyers. People are saying Bob Meyers should be the new team president of the Raptors. That is the worst idea I’ve heard in the world because Bob Myers is Golden State all the way, baby. That guy built the dynasty for the Warriors. And well, who ended the dynasty for the Warriors? The Raptors when they won their championship in 2019. He hated that. He’s absolutely an OP to the Raptors franchise. And anybody who thinks Bob Myers is the best hireer for the Raptors new team president, you’re crazy. That’s like letting the wolf into the chicken coupe to [ __ ] up your team. You think that that man could be trusted? Have you heard him on broadcast on national television when he talks about the Raptors? He always puts us down. He has no respect for our team. He doesn’t like our team because our team is the team that beat his teams in the pl in the finals and in some ways closed their arena and ended an an era for him of success. So why the [ __ ] would we want Bob Myers to come run the Raptors? You cannot trust him. He’s an arrogant piece of [ __ ] and he has put down our team consistently on national television when he’s been a broadcaster after his front office career. Come on, pay attention Raptors fans. Why the [ __ ] would you give the keys to the car to a man like that? There’s a responsibility in being team president of a team. You have to be It’s like giving your kid the car keys the first time. My my brother just recently gave some car keys to my niece who just got or license learner’s permit. There’s some real, you know, responsibility and driving a vehicle. You don’t want to damage it. You don’t want to run in another car or something like that. So, you want to be careful who you’re giving the keys to the car to as far as your team, your team president. You want somebody who’s going to respect the car, respect the franchise, respect the city, respect the country, respect the culture that Messiahi set up here. And we can’t just go and get a name because the name is, ooh, Bob Meyers. Ooh. Ooh, Bob Myers. Oh, no. You can’t trust that [ __ ] Why would you want to hire him as team president? You cannot trust him. He would come in here and maybe [ __ ] up our team on purpose on this slide just because think about that Raptors fans. Seriously, think about what I’m saying. Seriously, right here, you cannot trust Bob Myers. In some ways, this job is most important description of this job is can we trust this person? Can we trust this person? Does this person understand the Raptor’s culture, the Raptor’s city, the Raptor’s market, the Raptor’s country is Canada? Do they understand what who Messiahi is? Do they understand what he was about? Can we have somebody help carry on the legacy of Messiah Jiri going forward in the same position? That is the things you guys need to think about is because our success as Raptors has been most successful under Eugi. So we’d like to continue the legacy of success under Eugiia and his culture, right? So we don’t want somebody coming in here that may not be all about knowing about that or in touch with it or respecting it or understanding it. So, I’m telling you, somebody who’s a known entity, somebody who’s already knows Toronto, the city, the staff, the franchise, the country, is going to respect this way, way more than somebody who’s new, who’s American, who just came to our country for the first time just to take this job in Toronto. It’s not a good idea, guys. I’m telling you right now, this is a trust position. This is a position that Messiahi did so well because we could trust in Messiah, right? Y’all want to say trust in Messiah? Well, trust in Messiah was a two thing. It wasn’t one just one thing. One thing was trust in Messiah that he’s making good deals and we’re going to get good players. Like he’s drafted Pascal Seakum. They may have laughed at that name when he was announced at the NBA draft the year was drafted, but who’s laughing the [ __ ] now is what I’m saying. That’s trusting Messiah. Oh, he’s knows what he’s doing. he’s going to make the direct picks and the moves and we’re going to do well and we’re gonna be successful as a team. That’s trust in Messiah. But you know what else trust in Messiah was guys this whole time while he was in charge is trusting that our franchise is being responsibly run by somebody who has a big picture and has the best intentions for our team and is going all out and is doing his job to the utmost of his ability and making sure there’s quality control. making sure that we can trust him that there is a buffer between owners that may want to meddle that that we can trust that he has a vision singularly himself that he is in charge and that he is running this team by himself with the help of his general manager Bobby Webster and assistant general manager Dan Tolsman and Terresa Rush before that’s the thing is trusting Messiah wasn’t just in the moves and the players that he brought here is trusting that the quality of the team at the top could be trusted because he’s responsibly running the job correctly and non-toxically. That is the biggest part about being a team president right there, guys. The team president for the Raptors fights for the team in boardrooms and places in the NBA that we don’t see. He sits in a room where he hears TV execs talking about TV contracts. He sits in a room where he hears owners talk about salary caps and things like that. He sits in a room with the NBA commissioner and the deputy commissioner and listens to their plans internationally. This is the thing. A team president for the Raptors has to be diligent in fighting for our fair share in a league that may cast us aside and not give us totally the same things as the other 29 teams that are in the United States. So th there’s a lot to this job more than y’all think there is. This is not a coaching job. Do not judge Dwayne Casey for his coaching in this uh application for this position because this is not a coaching job. But the knowledge of being a coach is very helpful for this job. Yeah, he can understand coach Rayakovic. He can understand Bobby Webster because he’s done these jobs that these guys have done already. So that you know there’s a lot to this. The team president job description is a buffer between the general manager and the ownership and letting the general manager get clearance. It’s almost like a a run a run blocker in football. You got your running back in the back field. You want them to run the ball forward to get some gains on the uh football field. Well, the team president’s that rush blocker that’s coming to take the blitz out of the way so the running back, the general manager, Bobby Webster, can run that ball through. And maybe he’s blocking Ed Rogers the third and Keith P from tackling Bobby and stopping him from doing a move that he wants to do. That’s what I’m saying. That’s what that position is, guys. That’s what that position is. And if you understand what the job description of the team president of the Toronto Raptors is, maybe you’ll start to understand why Dwayne Casey might be one of the best choices we can make. Now, let’s not get it twisted. I honestly do believe that Bobby Webster should be the next team president of the Raptors. Keep it in house. In some ways, that makes it easier. He’s already got to work with Keith Py. He already has, but he can be more in that function. Dan Tolsman gets bumped up to regular general manager and they hire assistant general manager underneath them. That’s cost cutting. That’ll actually save them money because they can pay the new guy less and maybe just bump up the salaries of Bobby and Dan a bit to show that they got promoted. That is ideal. And there are signs that the Raptors are going this route that CAA talent agency out of California is actually interviewing a lot of lower tier executives in the NBA that aren’t considered really viable for team president but maybe for assistant GM. So let’s not get it twisted. Keith P and MLSSE are looking at a lot of different ways to fill this position. Whether it’s bumping Bobby up to it, whether it’s getting a brand new team president from somewhere else, getting a brand new GM, or getting a brand new assistant GM instead, and Bobby goes to team president. So, my best outcome is that one. I think that if Bobby just stays in charge, that’s great. But if we do really have to have somebody in between Bobby and the owners, that’s a Dwayne Casey is a great choice. He may be the best other choice, guys, because once again, this guy has come to Toronto. He spent eight years of coaching our team, guys. He was our coach for eight years, y’all. He knows our city inside out. He knows our staff inside out. I’m just saying. I want to hear somebody with a dissenting opinion about Dwayne Casey. I promise I’m not going to come after you. I want to hear it clearly so that we can really discuss why. There’s like there’s this poll on uh on Reddit right now. It’s crazy to me. Do you think the Raptors should hire Dwayne Casey as our their next president of basketball operations? That’s not the job, by the way. This is the job is called team president. It’s not president of basketball operations. That’s a totally different job. Actually, that’s the job that Terresa Res used to have. No, this is a different job. This is actually the president of the whole entire team as far as I’m the leader and I in some ways I’m the guy who answers the owners, but I also answer to everybody below me. That’s what Eugi always used to say is I have 20 bosses. I don’t I’m not the boss really. I have 20 bosses. And Bobby Webster and Terresa Rush are two of my bosses. Doug Smith is one of my bosses. Ed Rogers the third is one of my bosses. I have like 20 bosses. You know who else is a boss? The fan. You’re one of my bosses, too. Because I’m listening to you and what you want me to do also as team president. That’s what Messiah used to say. He he described the job. He said, “I have so many bosses, guys. Teresa is a boss. Uh Bobby is a boss. Dan Tolsman’s a boss. Darko Ryakovich is a boss. Scotty Barnes is a boss. You know, that’s that’s the that’s the thing. The team president is there to try and help everybody do their job and keep an overall vision and steer the ship with the captain’s wheel. But the best team president is like Messiah. He’s a boss for everybody, but on below that, he’s a boss for everybody to them at the same time. That’s what I’m saying. So yeah, in this poll, it’s really disappointing. It’s like 391 people have said no, do not want Dwayne Casey as the president of the Raptors. Uh, and 31 people have said yes. 31 to 391. This is so disappointing. And I don’t understand why Raptors fans are so misinformed and why they are on this subject. Seriously. And part of my reason for doing this stream today is to try and inform you guys because you know I look at this like and I see the comments just saying you’d have to be a complete sicko to say yes. Am I a complete sicko? No. I’m somebody that passionately loves the Raptors and wants the best for them. And I really do truly believe that trust and respect for our franchise may be the two most important things for the job that we’re trying to hire right here. is if you don’t have somebody who trusts you don’t have somebody that we can trust in the position, we’re [ __ ] Seriously, you we trusted Messiah, but we don’t know if we can trust Kevin Pashard if they steal him from Indiana. We don’t know anything about Kevin Pashard. Why would he give a [ __ ] about the Raptors? Maybe he has more sentimentality for the Pacers. Maybe he has more sentimentality for the Rockets or some other team he played for like Golden State in his NBA career. You know there there’s no you got to understand when you have somebody who loves your team like DeMart Rosen loved Toronto like Messiah Deiri love Toronto you don’t like you need people like that in charge in powerful positions important positions you don’t need people that are halfass or suspect and that’s the thing a lot of people from other organizations may not come here with the same effort think about it from the flip if Messiah takes a job with Atlanta with God forbid, and I hope he never does because that’d be a horrible place for him to go. Do you think that Messiah Jiri would have the same zeal and energy and zest for working for the Hawks as he did for the Raptors? Seriously, ask you a question that do you think that Messiah would go there with the same kind of energy and zest that he had with the Raptors when he showed up and took the job here? Probably not. Because how could he match the kind of feelings and the process that he went through? because that was a whole formative kind of process for him as a front office person in the NBA. I’m just saying think about that. Think about that when you’re thinking about who they should hire, y’all. And and and understand this. You know, uh let’s see. Some other guy here says, “I’m of half a mind to just watch it all burn down. To be honest, a large chunk of the fan base needs to realize how spoiled they’ve been.” You know, he they’re right that the the Raptors fan base has been very spoiled since the championship and the way they’ve acted and just expected results. The NBA is a tough place to be and sustained success for long periods of time. Y’all, the Spurs are amazing for what they did. And in some ways, we’d like to be more like the Spurs. And that’s what we’re planning on building, guys. If y’all would just let them do it, they’re going to trust. Trust me, it’s coming. It’s coming. In fact, this first year may be the first year of playoffs for the Raptors for a long, long time going forward after this year, guys. I’m telling you right now, I can see it. I can see it. Uh, let’s see. So, this guy’s crazy. He wants to watch it burn down. Well, you’re not a fan if you want to see it burn down. This person’s saying, “I’m glad the Tempo are coming to town.” Yeah. Well, you know, that’s going to be good for sure, and I’m excited about that. And if you get turned off by the Raptors for whatever reason, whether it’s Ed Rogers, you know, the tempo will be a great alternative. Also, the Canadian Elite Basketball League is a great alternative, too. That’s right. Uh, somebody else here said, “Y’all are not prepared for the level of irrelevancy the Raptors are about to hit.” I think you’re wrong, actually. I think that that’s a shallow take. And if you’re really a basketball person, you can see what we’re doing and we’re going to be successful. So, yeah, it’s not we’re not going to be irrelevant. That’s a that’s a silly take. That’s a casually lazy take. Just because Eugi left doesn’t mean we’re going to be bad, guys. It does hurt and it is something that hurts our respect and our prestige around the league. And it’s actually that is part of the reason why a fan like this would say, “Oh, we’re going to irrelevancy.” Well, we might as far as the media, how they treat us more because Messiah’s not around and they may not feel like they need to respect us very much. And that’s been showing signs of that already. But trust me, our record and the way we play, just like we did in the 2010s with Kyle and Dear and Dwayne Casey, uh we were very relevant. We made ourselves relevant whether they liked it or not. And I I fully expect another period of this like the 2010s under coach Rayakovich this time instead of Casey of growth and perennial playoff appearances under our young core with Scotty Barnes, Emanuel Quickley, RJ Barrett, Brandon Ingram, Jacobe Walter, Grady Dick, Jamal Shed, Yaka Purle. That’s what’s coming guys. So yeah, not irrelevancy. Perennial playoff appearances if we’re healthy. That’s it right there. That’s it. Yes, people are just saying no. And somebody’s saying here, always move forward and never back. In my personal opinion, Bobby Webster should be the new president. I can agree with that. And then MLSC should allow him to search for a new GM. Yeah. Or maybe not even a new GM, just a new assistant GM and bump Dan Tolsman up also. That’s not a bad thing. That’s not a bad thing right there. Yeah, this guy’s saying, uh, it’s hard being a Raptors fan. No. [ __ ] no. We do not want Dwayne Casey. Yeah. These people in some ways are very shallow opinions and it’s sad. It’s sad because honestly, I’ll give all the cases for case. I will. I’ll give the case for case. That’s what I’m doing today. I’m giving the case for case. And if people don’t want to pound the rock with Casey as the team president, you’re crazy because this man would be perfect for this job. He would be perfect. He’s in the right age bracket for it. Now, see, in some ways, you know, the NBA career goes from player to coach to front office. That’s the logical progression for people that are basketball lifers is you go from player to coach to front office. And well, Casey has been a coach for a long, long time. And he’s been front office for a few years now, too. And he’s been he’s been a very effective front office person. I’m telling you right now, the stuff in Detroit is not uh a coincidence that the Detroit Pistons franchise got out of the mud while Dwayne Casey was a coach and then a front office person for them. He started with the Ben with the the team as the coach and starting to help Kate Cunningham and that nucleus start get going and then you know he’s in the front office and he’s doing a lot of different things and they they have not done a bad job. We can’t say the Pistons have done a bad job in the last five years. They are doing way better and gotten better and better since Casey showed up there after we fired him from here. So, it’s, you know, this this All right, here we go. We got our first call for today, guys. Here’s our call. It’s coming in from the Mountain Standard Time. Hello, sir. You’re on the on the Rapper Freak Think Tank. How would you like to talk to us today, sir? Good to see you. Yeah, I’m calling in about this Dwayne Casey thing. Um, is it official? Is he hired in yet or no? It’s not official, but he is one of the known candidates that has already interviewed and is a a top candidate that they’re considering. That’s what we know. Can they say how many candidates are are there available? I’m not totally sure how many people they’ve available uh they’ve uh they’ve actually interviewed yet, but you know, because you know, you know how Raptors are going to be. They’re going to be very hush- hush and they’re not going to talk about all the things they’re doing. So, there may be people they’ve talked to we have no idea about. Also, there’s a lot of unknown people that are like lower level apparently, like people that are assistant GMs and people that aren’t really totally like uh uh known people that are names or anything. So, it looks like we’re looking for underperson possibly like zero experience type of [ __ ] No, they’re people that are working for other uh franchises right now, but they’re more likely like uh they would be hired in as assistant GM underneath Bobby and Dan. So that route is being explored to just bump Bobby up and hire an underling instead of somebody over him. So Oh, okay. Okay. Like for me, I like I think the best move would be for Dwayne uh to get Dwayne because like a lot of our success I think I seen it in chat someone said you know um he pretty much built that team that 2019 championship team minus the Kawaii uh deal but yeah he built he built and uh what I want to add to that is when you look at what we have right now um it’s sort of a mirror image because I see a lot of people calling Shad Van Ve 2.0. Yeah. Um you know uh yeah I I do like it because there’s a lot of pieces for him to work with. Now my main question is he chose Demar and Kyle as the main pieces going forward back when he was building the team. Who do you see as the building branch? Like do you see Scotty still being his number one guy like how we’re all building up or does he lean more towards going with it Jacobe or does he go all in with a Brandon Ingram? What do you think he would he would put at the forefront? I think that I think that the starters will be the forefront. I mean, it’s gonna be You’re You’re exactly right, Seymour, when you’re saying that um that this is a mirror image of what Casey had when he was dealing with in the two 2010s because he had Demar and Kyle are kind of like uh Scotty and Emanuel and uh you know, Fred would be Jamal Shed and Pascal would be uh you know, somebody like uh Grady Dick or Jacobe Walter or something like that as far as like the in between the starters and but also benchmob kind of right now. Um, yeah. So, it’s like it’s very similar and that’s the whole thing. Casey has shown with the Raptors and with the Pistons that he can have a young core around that he is developing and they are getting better because that was the big thing like everybody forgets Casey was the coach when Fred, YaKob, Dylon, Pascal and Norman were the benchmob and they were doing what they were doing. Casey was the coach of the bench mob and we have a bench mob now and like if Casey’s the team president, you know, not that he’s doing coaching stuff, but he can understand the whole uh operation of trying to build up young core like the one we have again now and get them better and better. He would only add to the brain trust. He would only what would think about what Casey would do. He’d basically be hanging around and he would do things like I I’m gonna talk to Keith Py today, Bobby, and I’m gonna see if he can see it our way. I could I’ll even do the case, Bobby. I’m gonna talk to Keith today, and I’ll go in and see if I can make our case and make sure that he sees it our way. You know, it’ll be [ __ ] like that a Dwayne Casey will do because he’ll be like, “Bobby, I know that they’ll they’ll like this if we sell it to them the right way.” He’s going to be a buffer. He’ll be able to be because some people say he’s a tough guy. He’s sirly. He’s tough. Well, maybe he could be tough with Keith P. Maybe he could be a little bit like gruff with Ed Rogers III. They say, “Listen, Ed, you know, I’ve worked for you for a long, long time before. You know that I understand basketball really well and this is what I got to say about it. I’m, you know, he could be very helpful in this kind of way.” And then on the flip side, he could be coming down to OVO and doing a little bit of extra coaching with some of the guys for developing too with helping Darko because Darko loves that kind of stuff. He wants all of his assistant coaches to have a part in it. He’d probably be really cool with Dwayne Casey coming in with his eyes and saying, you know, you know, if alike, great think alike. So, especially development coaches. So, it’s like what’s the harm? You got a president that’s actually kind of on the down low also really good coach that develops players and you have a young core. So it’s like I think like they owe us the ownership after what Keith Kelly and them did with Fire Massage. They sort of they owe us. They owe us big time because they’re in the hole with that move coming in. Yeah. So giving us Casey sort of it doesn’t make it even. It doesn’t make it feel right with the Messiah thing, but at least you know it’s going in the right direction from the negative. M but then at the same time I think if we see them hire them right then I know these guys are trying to route Toronto out of the league. They don’t want the team here if they go with uh Lakeum the guy who was at uh Golden State. Oh, you mean Bob Myers? Bobby Myers. Yeah. If they go with Meyers, then I know that they’re trying to they’re trying to do something from the inside. They’re trying to pull the rug from underneath us because this is the thing. Our team has had uh different periods of toxic and non-toxic. The beginning of the Raptors was non-toxic with Isaiah and John Bau. They had all the right intentions for our team. They got our team off to a best start. They had a a rookie of the year the first year of the franchise. They had uh they were going towards winning fast. And then when MLSC bought the team because they had to have the Air Canada Center, everything went toxic then because they brought in the hockey people like Richard Petty and they were meddling and there was no clear leader that had a good vision like Isaiah Thomas did before that and we were we let it led to things like the confusion with Vince and him getting traded by Rob Babcock. It led to all kinds of bad [ __ ] Then Kangelo came in and he was pretty good, but he was still cleaning out the toxic and he wasn’t totally good at his job. But then Messiah came in and was non-toxic and really really healthy environment where everything could be built. What we have to worry about with the power changes of Ed Rogers being the owner now is very similar to MLSC taking ownership and kicking Deto and Isaiah out. They we have to be careful because they kicked Masai out already and we got to be worried about too many cooks in the kitchen and toxic leadership in our franchise which is something that’s held back the Maple Leafs for decades. So that’s the biggest thing about this job title and job opportunity is we can’t have somebody toxic in it. That is the biggest thing. And I don’t think Dwayne Casey would be toxic. He’s a sure thing and we could trust him is the biggest thing I would say about it. So, and it definitely exists because if Shannon if if Brandon Shanahan, the guy who was running the Leafs before, if he came and made a statement like he didn’t want Rapture pitchers up because it’s this is a hockey city and he was trying to keep it all hockey for the stadium and this and that. Yeah. If he had his job for the whole year, he didn’t get fired till the team got bounced from the playoffs. And I’m pretty sure his comments were made way earlier in the season and he kept his job. So that means the the ownership is toxic to you know what I mean? They’re just as toxic as him because they let him keep his job. Well, that’s the thing. That’s the thing is that it’s toxic for the Raptors to be in MLSC with the Leafs to an extent. And the biggest thing is the Raptors need to keep the Leafs people and the Leafs stuff at arms length. And the the person that I appreciate for this was Tim Lewiki. Tim Lewiki when he came in and got involved in MLSC, he separated the Raptors from the Leaps. And one of the biggest worry that I have that now that Ed Rogers III is the sole owner is that he’s going to bring us back in with the Leafs more and more and consolidate leadership for both teams. Keith P in some ways represents this and it’s going to be bad for our team. So in some ways Keith P is the current Richard Petty and that is that’s the thing that I I I get worried about for our team. this if you guys really care about the Raptors being a good franchise going forward, uh people have to understand that we need the hierarchy to be non-toxic and as much as leave kind of stuff happens around the Raptors, it will be bad for us. That is the worry I have. So, uh last thing I’m going to say, uh in the chat, you’re going to get to it, though. Somebody put in, uh I got to hear your take on this. Somebody put in that Denver has hired two general managers and they like the decisions that that team has been making with the two general managers. What’s your thought on that having two general managers? That’s weird, man. I think that’s very weird. I think that, you know, the toxicness in Denver really manifested in a weird way this year with Michael Malone getting fired near before the end of the season in a weird way like that and then Calvin Booth was also a problem. I think part of it is that I think the arrangement with the Denver two people in charge is one of them is the owner is being like one of the GMs and so it’s like he has a GM with him but he’s making decisions with him. I think that’s the arrangement that they’re doing with the the GMing right now in Denver. What’s that? The owner has the final say the GM position pretty much. It’s weird of the Denver Nuggets team right now is acting as one of the GMs. So, it’s partly like I think the dude may be learning on the job with the other guy because he’s not really a GM. He’s more an owner guy. I think that’s part of it because they kind of described it at our summerly game against Denver. They had the owners sitting there and they were saying, “Yeah, this is the new GM and this that’s what that arrangement is.” I don’t know. I may be completely wrong. I don’t know. So, but Seymour, man, I really appreciate getting a call from the city slicker. Have you cut your mustache? Are you going to do the 80s mustache? Yeah, I got it going. Nice. Nice. I bet it looks good, man. But yeah, I always appreciate a call from the Mountain Standard Time of Alberta on the Raptor Freak Think Tank show on a Thursday. And I appreciate your questions about Dwayne Casey and the situation. And uh I hope you just have a fantastic day, man. Yeah, same man. Let’s get Casey, man. Let’s go. Let’s go Raptors. We’re making that case for Case because honestly, it’s a very good, smart, safe decision, Raptors fans. Seriously, other people we might not be able to trust. I I trust Casey even though we did him wrong. Seriously. And I’ll go on about why I trust him because he just he respects our country. He respects our city. He put a lot into building our team up with culture himself. So, he has his own reasoning for why he would want to preserve and make the Raptors get better in the future, right? Hold on before I go. I got another thing. Yeah. What’s your take on all those? Because remember when he left, we know there was a little animosity when he went to Detroit and he was building that, let’s say, garbage team that was over there. But he did build them up cuz they’re playoff contenders now. They were the worst team in the league when he showed up. Yeah. But he he took our games against like when he went He took our games very personal. Yeah. Yeah. I was actually at the very first game against Dwayne Casey and the Detroit Pistons in person uh when he returned after we fired him and he it was an amazing play how he did it like right at the end of the game. We were very close. The game was close and he did a play. He outsmarted Nick Nurse and did an inbounds play and got an easy basket and they won by just a couple points. And I was like damn. It’s like it’s in some ways like I know Casey had an issue like in some ways with Nick that he looked at him as a snake and that in some ways he he did have a personal issue with Nick afterwards. Now he did what have a maybe a little bit of issue with Messiah for a little while but that all went under the bridge. Like it’s really interesting last year how Casey acted during our 30th anniversary season last year. He was absolutely around our team and involved in alumni interviews talking about our history and he was glowing about it. It’s not like he had any grudge against Toronto. It’s not like he talked about like in a sullen s uh way where he was pissed off and he had a grudge. Not at all. In fact, he understands what he built. He’s special and that he in some ways, you know, I may be one of the few people in Raptors uh uh spaces and uh channels and stuff that is speaking up how important Dwayne Casey is to the Raptors history, but more people should recognize this because he was a coach on our climb to the NBA championship. And in fact, he climbed most of that damn mountain and Nick Nurse just happened to throw that flag on the top of the mountain at the end. But the most of the the Mount Kilimanjaro of climbing to get the Larry O’Brien, Dwayne Casey was that pickaxe pulling up the Raptors team as the coach for most of that climb from 2014 to 2019. Five years he built our team up. So yeah, I I keep holding on to you here, Seymour. I’m gonna let you go. Any one last words? Anything you want to say? Um, is Leo routins an option? This is Wow, this is out of the blue. I love this. I’m going to give you a dunk for this uh outside the box thinking. This is the think tank kind of stuff. I like Leo Routins as team president of the Raptors. I would sign off on it because in some ways it’s like like I said, in some ways the position is not necessarily what you guys think it is. We just need somebody we can trust and I would trust Leo routins in that position. That’s the thing. I think Casey would be more skilled to do the job and do a better job than Leo. But if we chose Leo tomorrow to be the team president of the Raptors, I wouldn’t be upset because I know I could trust Leo. That’s the thing. It’s about trust, guys. That’s the number one thing we got to worry about in this position. Can we trust them or are they gonna be a D boy for uh Ed Rogers and Keith Py and they’re going to be messing things up? Because that’s the thing Seymour said. When we see who they hire, we’re going to know whether it’s a healthy uh toxic or non-toxic choice, whether it’s going to be good or bad for us. We’re going to see it and we’re going to be like, “Oh, [ __ ] This is not a good choice. They’ve hired Bob Myers. We can’t trust him, bro. We can’t trust him. See, that’s what I’m saying. Oh my gosh. Yeah. So, hopefully they don’t do that. Yo, have a great rest of your day. I’m jumping off. I’m gonna be watching the chat. All right. All right, Seymour. Thanks for calling and uh Yeah, that right there. Let’s go, Raptors. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Have a good day. Peace. All right, man. Later. All right. Yeah, you guys can be like Seymour and call in if you have access to the phone number. We’re taking calls today on Dwayne Casey. possible option for Raptors team president. I kind of like his idea about Leo. It’s it’s kind of a figurehead thing then. I mean, Leo does have good basketball expertise and background, but in some ways, has he ever worked in a front office? Has he he’s worked as a coach? And he’s done a lot of coach stuff, but has he ever worked in a front office? I don’t know about that. So, I don’t know if that, you know, he’s qualified for that part. 142 on the dunk charts for Seymour. I love it. I love it. I love it. All right, let’s see. Where are we in the chat? I want to make sure I get into y’all’s chat here. Dway uh Trevor Jay is here. Good to see you. Commissioner of fund. Do not be afraid of losing people. Be afraid of losing yourself by trying to please everyone around you. Yeah, that’s true. You could get into be a people pleaser. And uh you know what? You lose yourself in it. And in some ways, that’s why you need to find your true essence and be true to it and allow for yourself for recharge time away from other people so that you can continue to keep your identity. It’s tough, man. people will try and use you and take you uh for time over and over again and you got to just keep your boundaries in your personal space. I appreciate your words of wisdom, Trevor J. I really do. Trevor saying, “I think Casey would be a good candidate for the job.” He would be an excellent candidate. He’s done a very good job in Detroit. He did a very good job here in Toronto in some ways. Once again, what’s the job description? He just needs to be a buffer. He just needs to be trusted. He just needs to be loyal. It just needs to be somebody that is a known quantity with our team. Somebody that has already worked with Bobby Webster for like seven years. They worked a long long time together. So, they have a working relationship already. And in some ways, they can talk to each other as men because they already know each other. And it’s like they can be honest. You know, we have a new guy who doesn’t know Bobby Webster at all come take this job. It could be very, very awkward. Let’s just put it that way. It could be that this person’s Keith Pelly’s in their ear and they’re telling this and this and this and this guy’s all of a sudden an extension of Keith P instead of somebody who’s working with Bob. You know what I’m saying? So, Raptors fans, please very very carefully listen to me today. The case for case is good. It’s not a bad thing. And you guys got to understand there’s a logical progression in uh people’s careers in sports. You know, you go from coach to front office to, you know, from GM to team president. These are logical progressions. And look, the Blue Jays did this kind of [ __ ] too. Think about it. There’s different uh uh uh GMs and managers that bounce back and forth. I mean, how many times is whatchamacallit been the manager of the of the Blue Jays or Gibbons? Gibbons left and he came back. Everybody’s like, “Oh, John Gibbons is back.” And they were it wasn’t a big deal, was it? In fact, his second stint was very successful. You know why? Because people get better as they do their jobs in their career and they can circle and come back. And people are saying, “Oh, no. You can’t have him come back. He’s a loser. We we fired him. We can’t have Casey come back. That’s not going forward. That’s going backwards.” It’s not though because Casey’s employment with us before was as a head coach. And this would be team president. That’s a totally different position. And that kind of stuff happens. Think about this. What if Cedo Gaston, the the Hall of World Series ch uh champion manager of the Blue Jays, uh came back and was the team president for the Blue Jays later on in the 90s. Would that have been a big deal? No, it would not. Because in some ways, that’s a natural progression as people age in sports. You got bumped up to higher positions, especially if you’re good at your job. And Casey’s 68 years old. He’s older. He doesn’t want to coach because it’s traveling. It’s stress. He’s Danny Glover in that [ __ ] He said, “I’m getting too old for this crap.” And he did that. He said, “I’m getting too old for this crap. Detroit, will you put me in the front office?” So, he went to the front office. And he he’s he’s doing more of the job there. You slow down as you get older. You know, Pop had to slow down because of the stroke. You know, Casey had to slow down because he’s like, “Man, these young players are driving me nuts.” And the Pistons are hard to coach because they’re, you know, they’re losing a lot. But boom, I get out of the way. The next guy comes in, boom, they’re building and boom, all of a sudden, Detroit’s in the playoffs this year. So, I’m just saying Casey has stages in his career. He was an assistant coach and won a championship with Rick Carile and the Dallas Mavericks. He was also a head coach with us and built us up to being one of the best Eastern Conference teams in the 2010s. So, it’s like there’s logical progressions to things. And him coming back in this capacity is not him boomeranging back as the head coach, y’all. This is a totally different position and this is a totally different job. and he would be good for it for the reasons that I just said. He’d be very, very good. Trevor saying WNBA uh wins uh Indiana Fever beat uh Phoenix Mercury, Atlanta beat Dallas, and Minnesota beat the the the New York Liberty. Yeah, good stuff. All right, let’s go check on there’s one game today in the WNBA. Golden State is going to be at Washington. It’s Kevin Fehee as a crew chief, Ryan Ceano as the referee, and Tyler Murkovich is the umpire. Yeah. And in our fantasy league, uh Cass has got a good lead on me right now. 60point lead. Uh uh Kareem is beating Edmond. Fiercy is beating James. MK has got a real good lead over JP and Coolcat is beating Logical Raptors fanatics. So get that going, man. I got to get off going. Cass is beat me. Ah, I gotta beat him. Uh let’s see. Trevor is saying also report just came out that LeBron James and business partner Maverick uh Maverick James is I think is his name. Uh center is banking uh uh five million. Maverick Carter is his name. Maverick Carter. Yeah. Is banking a $5 billion global basketball league with games across eight cities with bigger salary than the NBA formula. I mean, there’s the big three. There’s been rival leagues that have tried to come up. You know what? If LeBron wants to try and do this, in some ways, I’m sure it’s angering Adam Silver in certain ways. I don’t know if this is a smart move. I think that this may be a bad move by LeBron for financials. He’s going to lose money is what he’s going to do. Uh Mo saying, “Good morning, Rapree crew.” Whoever puts Dwayne Casey last on their list gets bashed coaching wise. Yeah. You know, the thing is some will debate whether how important Casey is to our coaches tree as far as like all the coaches the Raptors have ever had. You know, I put, you know, Nick Nurse is up there, of course, because he’s a championship coach. But I like Casey more than Nurse because in some ways I feel like Casey built more for our team solidly in some ways. And and Nurse just kind of got came in on the top. Like I said, he put the flag in the top of the mountain once Casey climbed most of the mountain. And then while he’s up there, he did not help our team develop players. I’m telling you right now, a lot of the great development for the Raptors players like Seakum and Fred came from Casey and Nick. It showed afterwards where he just didn’t get players going. Like we that’s part of why we stalled out after the championship. People say it’s Messiah’s fault for not doing things and this and that. No, it was in some ways Nick Nurse’s failure as a development coach and that has shown since he’s gone to Philadelphia. He has no development there either, guys. So, you can see certain people have certain things in their bag. And Nick is not a good development coach, guys. He’s just not. And Casey was and Casey still is. Obviously, you see what he did in Detroit, too. He developed guys really well. So, in some ways in the coacher coaching hierarchy in the rankings in my head, I put Dwayne above Nick in some ways as far as how important he is as a coach for the Raptors. I know people go crazy, but Nick won the championship with us. I know, but he wouldn’t have done that if Dwayne hadn’t done all the work the couple the years before. That’s just the damn truth. That’s just the truth. Uh, y’all call in to the phone lines. If you have access to the phone lines, you can call in just like Seymour did and we can talk. Raptors talk. We talk Casey. If you don’t want to talk Casey, you can talk any Raptors talk. This is the Thursday think tank on the Raptor Freak channel. It’s the call-in show, weekly call-in show, and you can get your opinions heard in your own voice. That’s right. Sum brown man is here. Good morning to you. Our Raptors trivia champion Gilbert Arenas arrested for gambling, man. Yeah, knucklehead. I mean, low IQ individuals are getting in involved in gambling around the NBA. Jonte Porter, that’s right. Low IQ individuals. This person had a podcast and he was spouting all kinds of dumbass [ __ ] Gilbert Arenas. Well, yeah. Is his credibility credibility sunk? I have no idea at this point. Maybe in this world, in this crazy MAGA world, criminals are uh celebrated and given pardons and uh you know, if you’re doing crime, actually, it’s respectable. So maybe Gilbert’s a superstar now for doing illegal crime with some weird Israeli crime lord or something like that. I don’t know what the [ __ ] going on with Gilbert. Either way, man, in this world, it’s on brand, right? This is the criminal world of Donald Trump. All right. Uh Mo saying, “Glad Casey got interviewed for the job. It’s only right even if he’s not at the top to get it. I don’t know who’s at the top to get it. We have no idea. In some ways, he could just get the job.” I would wonder this, Mo. I wonder how much Casey has interacted with Ed Rogers. It could very well be that Ed Rogers likes Dwayne Casey a lot, guys. Seriously. Like, what if Well, when is this? What if uh Rogers really liked Casey and he was mad at Messiah for firing him as the coach of the year? And he of course he was wrong. Ed Rogers was wrong because Messiah was right and we got the championship the next year. But could there be a storyline that that is true? And that in some ways Ed Rogers might be punitive towards Messiah and think he’s getting him back by hiring the guy he fired to put to replace him. In some ways, that would be a beautiful poetic justice, but also a weird judo move for us as fans to avoid problems, but also Ed Rogers gets his little kicks off of firing Messiah and replacing him with a guy he he fired. I mean, seriously, in some ways, I’d be like, Raptors fans, let Ed Rogers do this, even though he’s totally a dick, because it actually will help us. That’s what I say to that, man. Seriously, uh, Smooth saying run an illegal gaming house in his g gambling house in his house. I know that’s crazy. I mean, seriously, Gailbert has no sense. Obviously, the gun incident showed that. The gun incident showed that way back. Seymour saying it’s official with Casey with KCD get the job. Nope, he didn’t get the job yet. Medv’s here. Dwayne Casey built that 2019 championship team. Nick Nurse just reaped the rewards. Exactly. Medv, you’re going to get a dunk. Thank you for joining my channel and thank you for the subscription. And this is what we do for people that come in with good takes and good uh funny jokes or whatever if they’re helpful to me because they they looked up and fact checked me or something like that. Medbed, you’re getting a dunk, man. That’s your first dunk on the Raptor Free channel. You got three points on the dunk charts. We give three-pointer dunks. We just expect you to jump from the three-point line. Well, that’s pretty good. He’s exactly right. You know, I I liken it to like a volleyball game where uh Dwayne Casey set that ball just like a setter does. And Nickner spiked the hell out of it. That’s what that was right there. That’s what it was right there. Hot take. That’s right. I should say alleged. Yeah. I don’t know. Guilty until proven or proven innocent until proven guilty. I don’t know how this world works anymore with alligator Alcatraz and Hey, you look like an illegal. Come here. No, I’m American, man. I’m American. No, bro. You’re from Mexico. You’re obviously Latino, man. And I’m just going to blanketly uh arrest you because I’m ICE and this is what I do. But I’m American, bro. I’m American. Yeah. See, uh innocent until proven guilty. No, not in in Trump’s America. That’s not out that’s out the window at this point, man. It’s [ __ ] up, man. It’s messed up. I’m sorry I went there. But I feel like people should say things like this right now. It’s important. Let’s see. Mon’nique saying, “Uh, SBM, we know Gilbert is stupid anyway.” Yeah. Reggie, we know he’s stupid. Yep. Yep. Mo confirmed this and she understands. Uh Randolph saying, “Beloved Raptor Freaks family, inhale and exhale that breath of life. You are alive because God has purposed for you to be here because of the role you must play in the competition of this day and the completion of this day. Do it.” I love Randolph’s themes lately is be yourself and use your gifts that God gave you. The creator gave you gifts to help the world. And if you get in tune with them, you can really help the world. And that’s what he’s talking about. Blessings to Philips family and all the Raptor Freak families. I always love to hear from Randolph in the morning. I really do, man. I really, really do. Semour saying, “Man, that jailhouse team is stacked.” Jonte, Malik, Beasley, Gilbert, Roier. They’ll put Terry on there. Scary. Terry has been exonerated. Even though there is some weird betting activity on Terry Roier with the unders was what was happening. But they can’t link him personally to the people that were doing it. It’s just kind of like people were betting on the unders on him and like maybe they were just good bets because they were seeing a trend with Terry Roier kind of going down the tubes as a player on the Miami Heat. So yeah, but that team’s getting stacked, man. I This is not a team the NBA wants to build. Gilbert’s washed anyway. Come on now. Yeah. Yeah. See saying thank you to Trevor and Randolph. I love it. Yeah, the words of wisdom is always a great segment on the show. And I miss Leo’s words of wisdom. He stopped doing them. I think Leo got jaded with the world the way it’s going and he’s just like I’m not doing this [ __ ] anymore. He’s like this world’s going down the twos. My words of wisdom don’t mean jack [ __ ] is what he’s saying there. Yeah. Smith saying one of the guys from the crime ring was arrested with arenas. Yeah. Very interesting. In some ways I don’t care about Gilbert’s story. [ __ ] Gilbert. We can touch on it for a second but we’re not making this a big story for the stream. Uh Medvet saying, “I like Bobby, but I think he might be too young for the job.” See, this is actually another great point. I’m going to give Medbed another dunk for a very astute comment that is is very true. I mean, Bobb’s in his 40s, right? He’s in his early 40s. He’s uh he’s got a lot of time. And the people were trying to say, well, why don’t they hire Casey to be the GM and Bobby is the team president? Because in some ways, seniority does matter. Uh, and Casey’s 68 and he’s probably almost 30 years older than Bobby. And in some ways, it the the way that would work, it would work better in some ways like this. And the part of it is that CA case is really smart and you know the way that Messiah used to work is that he was compartmentalizing responsibility for everybody. Gdarko could do and Nick could do whatever they wanted to a certain degree and then Bobby could do what he wanted in his job title and Messiah would just sign off it. He would let Bobby do the leg work of the GM work and Messiah would kind of just look it over and be like the seal of approval at the end. This could be very similar to what the position of the new team president should be. And Dwayne Casey, having seen Bobby and Messiah work with each other, he could jump in the spot that Messiah was in and help Bobby in maybe a similar way that Messiah did. It’s like, Bobby, listen, I trust you. You go ahead and just do what you’re going to do and I will show me what you’re gonna do and then we’ll we’ll we’ll make the decision. You know, even if Dwayne technically is above Bobby Webster, it could very well be Bobby’s autonomous and he’s able to do his job and and Casey’s just kind of looking over his work and saying, “Yeah, but maybe catching things just in case Bobby didn’t see them and kind of putting an input in there and like, oh yeah, you’re right, Dwayne.” And then we fix that. You know, that kind of work is some ways quality control. is just making sure that the people in their jobs below you like Darko as head coach, all the assistant coaches, Bobby and Dan as the GMs are doing their job and that like this is the actually the right move for the direction and the vision. That’s part of what uh Messiah’s job was and what the the job will be for the new team president. So, we got to understand what the description of the job is and why we want to fill it with a certain person. It’s not necessarily a flashy name. It’s not necessarily a name that Raptors fans may expect, but it should be a name that’s familiar. That’s what I’m saying. That’s the most important thing. That’s why I think another candidate that would be fine, even if his track record in Chicago has not been very good, is Bmpton native, Toronto’s own Mark Eversley, who worked under Brian Kangelo in the Kangelo era, and he helped draft Demar De Rozan to the Raptors. He understands the culture and respects Toronto and respects our team and respects the country of Canada as a Canadian man. And that’s once again something that we need is trust and loyalty to our team. If you hire an American, well, they could go the route of Nick Nurse and turn code us in the middle of being in that position. And that’s what I’m saying. That’s why I think the best three choices are Bobby Webster, Dwayane Casey, and Mark Eversley. if we’re talking about the new team president of the Raptors because uh we can trust all three of those options and uh other people you’re bringing in some from the outside. You can’t trust that necessarily. And are they going to be an extension of the ownership more than an extension of the GM? That’s what I’m saying. That position’s in between those places and we got to see that. That’s right. That’s right. So Medv saying that Bobby may be too young. That may be right. That may be right. And that’s the thing. Dwayne can come in and groom him a bit more like Messiah was doing too before that and help him and you know eventually Bobby gets the job itself. Some people are speculating Bobby may not hang around if he doesn’t get the job. I think that’s [ __ ] I think that Bobby Webster enjoys doing his job and even if he doesn’t he gets passed over to get the promotion right now. I think that’s [ __ ] that people think he’d be angsty and upset about that. No, he might breathe a sigh of relief because he can continue to do the position he does already very very well and he won’t have added responsibilities. You know, it’s kind of like this. My father, he taught for a long long time in university at Florida&M University. Go Rattlers. Strike Rattlers. Strike. And uh well, he got bumped up the dean sometimes and it was a totally different position. If you’re a professor, you get to teach the students and you get to interact with students. If you’re a dean, you’re more in administrative stuff and in charge and kind of like having to look over everything and it’s not as fun in some ways. He enjoyed being a professor way more than being a dean. And in some ways, this is a similar thing. Bobby may very much enjoy the transaction wheeling and dealing of the GM job over the administrative job of the team president. And in some ways, the illogical progression of slowing down in your career to be a team president from a GM, well, that’s way too soon for Bobby Webster is age. And uh that’s the thing. That’s the thing right there. He may not want to be in the administrative job so heavy like that. There’s a lot of pressure in some ways. That’s where the the heads will roll first is at the top, right? So in some ways, we would think about this way. hired Dwayne Casey and he could be a buffer just in case Ed Rogers and Keith Py want to fire somebody down the road. Maybe they they’ll fire him before they fire Bobby. So there’s a lot to look at this guys in some ways we got to think about it this all very clearly. Fiercely saying good morning fam. Happy Thursday. Good morning to you MJ our current leader in our Raptor Freak trivia this season. She’s kicking a lot of butts. Shaq Lindseay saying Casey is Jon Snow the true architect of We the North. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, uh, the concept and the culture was set up by, uh, Messiah Jiri and he put the we the North mantle out there and, uh, but Casey was a big part of making the real wheels of it turn as far as the wins, the Eastern Conference wins, the the appearances in the playoffs, the Atlantic Division Championships. you know that he was the one. He may have been a better regular season coach than a playoff coach, but he still climbed that mountain through the hard part with uh series against Washington and Brooklyn and and Miami and Indiana and Milwaukee and all kinds of playoff situations that the Raptors were in during the 2010s. Casey Casey Casey, that’s right, Shaq Lindsay. Casey’s been Shaq Lindsay been on point this summer once again. and Shaq Lindsay coming in and put his two dunks his dunks in here because he’s been on point this year. In fact, Shaq Lindsay, if you’re here more frequently on the regular, you might be up there for the top of the dunk championship this year. Seriously. 50 uh 53 for my guy Shaq Lindsay. 53 on the dunk charts. Uh let’s see. Uh Seymour saying, “I think we all want Casey. It’s our best interest.” I I we are here, but we’re a minority right now in Raptors fan nation. A more majority of people right now think it’s a bad idea and we got to educate them. This is why I put the bat signal out for the Raptor Freak family right now. Go into social media right now and explain to them what we’re talking about today about the case for Casey. Seriously, explain to them explain the younger fans that don’t understand the history of the Raptors. Totally. Explain to people that just are not seeing the picture like I’m seeing it and explaining it right now. Because listen, we want someone familiar. We want somebody we can trust. We want somebody who’s loyal. That’s the most important thing to replace the most loyal and trusted person in Raptor’s history, Messiah Jiri. It’s damage control either way. We’re not going to upgrade at this position. Messiah is just the best. But we’ve got to do damage control. We cannot hire a toxic person in this uh hire. We have to make sure this is somebody that will fit in what I’m talking about and what’s important. And listen, there going to be people all over the place sewering Dwayne Casey because they think he’s a bad coach and that’s what matters to them. This does not matter for this position. The the failings that he had in the playoffs with the Raptors do not matter in this position. This is not not a f not a factor, not something you should be looking at the resume to think about for this position. This position is a very very different position than head coach of the Raptors, which Darko Rayakovich holds right now. So, I’m just saying I’m just saying think about this through. And listen, Raptors freaks, go out to Facebook. Go out to Instagram. Go out to Reddit. Go out to X and put in the case for Casey against the people that are denouncing this idea because they’re wrong. This guy would be perfect for this job if they’re not going to put Bobby up to the higher position. This guy would be perfect for this job. I’m telling you right now. That’s right. Uh Medv saying this. Uh Nuggets have appointed two GMs and they’ve been making good decisions. Maybe something to consider. No, no, no, no, no, no. The first rule is one cook in the kitchen. I think it’s dangerous what the Nuggets are doing. I think that what they’re going to do is they’re going to have a [ __ ] down the road because there’s going to be a point where the owner GM and the regular GM are going to get in dispute about what they should do and then it’s toxic. The whole thing that happened just now with the Nuggets and their problem why they imploded was because Michael Malone and Calvin Booth started fighting and they did not have the same vision and that’s when everything went south. So more cooks in the kitchen just invites more [ __ ] So no, you don’t need two GMs. That’s a asking for problems right there. You that’s reason why the rap is so successful under Messiah Jir because that buck stopped here with him. He was the end- all beall figurehead boss and there was no disputing who was in charge. It was Messiah Eugeri who was in charge. When you have too many people that may be in charge, it becomes clouded and it come it becomes muddled and it can be such a such a spawning point for toxic dysfunction for your sports franchise. So, no, no, no. We don’t need more cooks in the kitchen. That’s a dumb move by Denver and they’re going to see it in the next couple years. And you remember the Raptor Freak said it this morning. You remember I said it now and we’ll see the toxicness of their their situation come out in the eventually. Watch watch Seymour saying two GMs could get touchy because who has the final say. Exactly. Seymour is exactly right in that comment right there. Yeah. Kareem saying awesome football reference in regards to the potential Casey and Bobby Tandem could be the next Larry Aanka and Tim K. Yeah, you like that. It’s like seriously that’s what that position should be. Bobby needs to be working as a GM of the Raptors unfettered. Unfettered. I don’t want to see Keith Py looking over his shoulder. I don’t want to see Keith Py second guessing every single thing Bobb’s going to do because I want somebody like Dwayne Casey in between staring at Keith Py before they even get in the room with Bobby Webster. That’s what we need is a buffer. We need somebody who can explain it to them and somebody who’ll get in the middle of of meddling MLSC and allow the Raptors to healthfully run their team correctly without no meddling from somebody like Keith Py like Richard Petty before. That’s what I’m saying. I know the history of the Raptors real well and that’s why Johnny come lately newer fans that jumped on the bandwagon with the championship. Understand I understand the history of this team and I want to avoid the mistakes we’ve made in the past. That’s why I say what I’m gonna say right here. That’s right. That’s right. You like the football stuff. Yeah. Med saying consensus. They both hold each other accountable. Too much power and ego with one guy can make the wrong decisions. That’s why in some ways you want a special person that’s a special leader, a selfless leader. Somebody who’s not power hungry or just egotistical. And Messiah was the perfect example of this because he could be the end- all beall. I’m in charge. but he’s that kind of leader that listens to all his people and really takes their opinions into heart and he does a lot of what they do. Darko’s the same way as a coach. Darko with all of his assistants and help. They’re all giving him ideas all the time. He doesn’t take all of them. They don’t get everything they want done and some of them are upset about it, but he says, “Look, I’m the boss, but you guys bring me good ideas all the time and I’ll consider it.” That’s the best you can boss you can be is like open to other people’s ideas and not above listening to them and not being a dictator. So these are the important things about this position and filling it is we need somebody who’s going to listen to people that work for them and make decisions partly because they told them that’s what they should do. You know that’s what they should do. Now I I I don’t like this. If you have two different people that’s at odds already because honestly they could like you could say what you’re saying they keep them in check. Well, you know what happens when things keep in check? Well, look at the US government with the Republicans and the Democrats and how they just block each other. So, you can get to that situation where you have two two party system or two people that are GMs and they’re just blocking each other. And that’s kind of where Denver got to with Michael Malone and Calvin Booth guys on the down low is like Michael Malone wanted to do certain things, Calvin blocked him in spite and vice versa. and then all of a sudden you’ve degenerated into a a state like the US government with the Democrats and the Republicans where nothing gets done because they’re blocking each other. That that’s what I’m saying. You don’t want more than one cook in the kitchen. It’s good to have a dictator in the NBA as running your team, but make sure he’s a benevolent dictator that listens to his subjects. That’s what I’m saying right there. Shaq Lindsay saying Casey believed in Demar and Kyle to take us to the next level. Casey went against the grain with all the naysayers and we can’t win without a suit that we can’t win without a super suitified superstar under Casey. We were always the top team in the East. Yeah. Yeah. He is similar to Darko. He had two bad years, but after that he’s going to take off. And that’s what’s going to happen this year with Darko. Darko had two bad years. Dwayne had two bad years. And then Dwayne made the playoffs every single year as the Raptors coach after that. And that’s what’s going to happen with Darko. Now watch. Seriously, we’re gonna make the playoffs this year and it’s gonna be the first year of many playoff appearances in a row with our young core under Darko because we’re building this the right way. It’s gonna be great. Uh Kareem saying, “A couple of days ago at the end of your stream, I said someone tell Gilbert Arenas to shut the [ __ ] up. The feds were listening, I guess.” So, I mean, maybe he should have shut the [ __ ] up. Maybe he should have done a lot of different things different to not be involved in this really crazy scandal. Like, I don’t know. This could be really really bad for Gilbert. This is like something that’s uh not going to go away. One in 94 for Cream Thomas. Uh you guys heard about the Miami Heat uh apparel heists. Like millions of dollars of Miami Heat championship gear were stolen from the team. And I’m And there’s somebody put a graphic out of Jimmy Butler as the guy stealing it. I wonder if that does have anything to do with it. Is there some sort of weird world where Jimmy Butler started selling Miami Heat apparel out from underneath them while he was the last year there and his way of getting away with the crime was to force a trade to get out of there. All right, I’ve done all my work with the memorabilia. I’m just making this up. This is not true. This is just a goofy thing. But they make it look like it because they made Jimmy Butler outfit like stealing the stuff from Miami. I don’t know. I don’t think Jimmy Butler had anything to do with it. But wouldn’t that be weird if that was part of the whole story of why he had to leave all of a sudden last year? I don’t think Jimmy would do that. I’m gonna be honest about that. But he would do this apparently on Carmelo Anony’s uh podcast talking with Demar De Rozan about 2016 Rio Olympics US team and uh how Carmelo would go out and party constantly and he was always kind of wanting to sleep in but Jimmy Butler on the team bus in the plane would always play blaring music and irritate the hell out of Carmelo. And Demar said that him and Jimmy were doing that to Carmelo on purpose, making his life hell because they knew he was a little bit hung over. And there was all these pictures of Carmelo on the plane like looking at him like all angry. But Jimmy was playing that music loud. That’s so hilarious, man. That’s so hilarious. Uh Medvet saying shed is Lowry 2.0. Yeah. I mean, I look at it as a lineage, right? Kyle Lowry, Fred Vanble, Jamal Shed. It’s a lineage. It’s a lineage. It’s a tradition in some ways. We could go all the way back to people like Damon Statamire, Alvin Williams, TJ Ford, Jose Calderon. Yeah, we could go back to that lineage of Raptors point guards that’s just gutsy and goes above and beyond. Winners. Alvin Williams was a winner. Damon Salomar was a winner. Uh Jose and the TJ, well, they were trying. And then, you know, you know these guys, Lowry Vanvle, yeah, winners. Jamal shed. Go ask Calvin Sams. Yeah, he’s a winner. He’s a winner. That’s right. That’s right. Shaq Lindseay saying Casey doesn’t step on toes and we’ll allow Bobby do his job. Perfect candidate for the job. He knows everybody here. He knows the city. He knows our culture. He respects Canada. You guys got to understand, you know, if people were worried about him being angry towards us or having a grudge or like if we hired him, would he like get a revenge from the inside? That’s all out the window. He wouldn’t do that. he has way more uh at stake for his own respect and who he is and uh doing his job than uh to be petty and do [ __ ] like that. Once again, the signs that Casey’s completely healed with us firing him when he was coach of the year are that last year he was around our team a lot. He came to Toronto even when he didn’t have to. Did you notice they were interviewing him on the broadcast from time to time? Did you notice that he participated in Open Gym and uh Raptors Dark Side of the of the Raptors, aka Raptors Delight, the Sports Net series. He was very happy to come in and talk about his history and his times coaching the Toronto Raptors and what they did with Kyle and Dear and Yonas. And uh you know, it wasn’t it wasn’t any anger or anything. And I’ve seen him ping around with Messiah, too. and even said in an interview he has a lot of respect for Messiah and he thinks Messiah Yugiri is absolutely fantastic for what he has accomplished as the only African-born uh executive ever African descent executive of the NBA’s history. So this is a big deal in some ways. Dwayne is above his own like grievance for being fired by us as coach of the year. He understands the bigger picture just like Demard Rosen. Both of these guys are very, very immature men, grown men. They’re not little babies. They’re not whiny little [ __ ] They are tough men that see, yeah, they got done wrong, but they’re not going to whine and cry about it the rest of their lives. They’re going to go on with their lives and be men and achieve after that. And that’s the thing we got to understand with Casey. There’s no chip on his shoulder. In fact, his best some of his best memories of his life are here in Toronto. So why wouldn’t he embrace a return here in a way that he would come at it with zesto in the right kind of attitude and in a way and possibly even mirror and shadow some of the stuff that Messiah did before that he saw personally because he was around it. So it’s like come on man what is not to like about this other than you’re a shallow casual that just sees Dwayne Casey as a failed coach for the Raptors. That’s not a good enough reason because first of all he’s not getting hired to that position. Darko has it. That’s it right there. That’s it right there. Smooth saying BlueB Blue Jays just traded uh for Sha Sha Bieber from the Guardians. Interesting. I don’t know anything about this. It’s the trade deadline. He’s a pitcher. Okay. Okay. Stargate saying good morning to you, Stargate. Ed and Keith don’t want a perfect candidate for the basketball jobs. They want to tow the line guys to go along with whatever twisted and basketball agenda they have. They won’t fire hire Casey. I don’t know if that’s true. Stargate, I know that you want to believe. See, this is the thing. And I love my friend Stargate. He’s he’s he’s a very very intelligent person and I I don’t want to gaslight him or anything like that, but I want to say this. We cannot think the worst of the world out there. In some ways, in some ways it looks like it. Yeah. Out there. But you have to invite the idea that there’s serendipity in this world for good things to happen for you. That things will work out in the end. That in some ways there’s forces out there that are actually more good than bad and the good will win in the end. So uh some ways you got to live your life where life is work moving in the way that’s in your favor and all of a sudden boom you’d be you’d be surprised what you see. There’s no telling what these guys agenda is. You can’t say this for sure. It could be that this is what it matters to Ed and this is probably what’s right is this is making as much money as possible off these sports teams that he owns. And uh for that to happen is to be successful. the the Blue Jays success right now is very good sign that you know Rogers is trying to win. The Blue Jays are doing something. They just made a trade just now to enhance their team to go on a stretch run to get this pitcher Shay. So these are good signs that Rogers is not about wasting his time just having sports teams. Maybe he is going to try and functionally run the Raptors correctly so that they can go and do what they’re doing. In some ways he’d be stupid to sabotage something that’s already built that’s going to make him money. That’s the thing that matters. and rules his world is this. So if the Raptors can make money because they’re winning, I don’t see why he would want to sabotage that. So you may be right that they do want to tow the line kind of guy that’s kind of like, yeah, yes man, for Keith, but maybe Dwayne understands how to do that dance in between in that position. I’m just saying. I don’t know. We can’t say for sure exactly what Ed Rogers and Keith Pelly’s intentions are after until after we see what they do. His intention was to fire him aside for sure. and we knew that for a long long time and it happened. But we don’t know if his intention is to continue to screw the team up going forward. And I wouldn’t I wouldn’t put that uh past them, but I wouldn’t guarantee that’s actually what’s happening because it could be that we’re going to be fine and we’re going to cruise and we’re going to be great. That’s what they’re saying. That’s what Keith P wants is success, right? That’s what we want. That’s what Darko wants. That’s what Bobby wants. That’s what Scotty wants. And that’s that’s what we all want. I’ll bet you Ed Rogers wants that, too. So, let’s not paint it in the worst light. Let’s live a life where we think life is out there to surprise us and bless us and surprise us with goodness and positivity. That’s what you got to do. If you look for it to be bad for you, well, you’ll see that. You’ll see that. That’s the sad thing. That’s the secret in some ways of perception and stuff. Uh Stargate saying, “We’ll probably promote Bobby and Dan at OneUp and get assistant GM.” That is a perfectly okay scenario for me. I’m not a dictator where I’m like, “There’s only one way it has to be and it has to be this No, I can see a couple different routes where this can work. It’s just I want it to be one of these functional non-toxic routes. That’s right. Semour saying hi to I candy. Cass is here. Good morning, Lex Rabree Crew. Good morning to you, Trucker Cass. Mike’s here. Good to see Logical Raptors fanatics up this morning. Will Lou broke down all the candidates and went through their backgrounds. Most started as scouts and became GMs, etc. Casey was the only coach turned executive. Okay, interesting. Logical. Hope all is well, Broki. Yeah, respect. things are solid. Good to hear. Casey is old. Yeah. You know, it’s not even a big deal that he’s old. That’s not even the deal or anything like that. But he has experience and like I said, in some ways, he knows our franchise really well. He knows our city really well. He probably knows a lot of the personnel. He knows Dr. Alex. He knows uh the security people. He knows the ushers. He knows Shelby. He knows so many people around our team. It’s not like he needs to be introduced. and he probably has easy uh reclaimed working relationships with these people. So, there’s a lot that’s really good about Dwayne Casey for the position. I’m telling you, Trevor is saying Bobby is a better candidate for the job. He already deals with all the NBA front offices, connection with all those GMs and very smart. That’s why in some ways he needs to keep the job he’s already in because in some ways, that’s the thing. If we bump people up, Bobby Webster will not be the wheeler dealer, the tough negotiator, the astute level of talent at the GM position. And that’s why in some ways, Bobby is uh, you know, he could be the team president. I don’t think that he would not do the job great, but in some ways with his age bracket, like was said earlier by Medvet, he he could grow into being a front office guy in the higher level over time. It’s almost like he’s so young and v vital that he could go and do the energy so well for us at the GM level that he’s already doing. He’s one of the best GMs in the league and in some ways it’s like uh you know the Casey the job for team president is more administrative and not as hands-on. It may be better with the hierarchy with Casey in charge because Bobby can continue to do the job he does so well the position he’s in already right now. you know, that’s that’s that’s something that like, you know, I think about with this whole thing right here, you know, uh cuz he has the connections. He’s the strong armed kind of negotiator. He’s not taking all the [ __ ] deals the other GMs are calling us. So, he’s a proven commodity as a successful person in that position, Bobby Webster. You bump him up, you put Dan Tolman in there, maybe he’s not as good at negotiating. You bring in an unknown guy, maybe they’re not as good as Bobby and you’re losing a quality person at two positions with Messiah and Bobby bumped up. So, does that scenario make sense in some ways? That’s why maybe Bobby should just stay as GM because he’s so young. He’s got the energy to put so much vigor in it and basically they just need to replace Messiah to help Bobby with the administrative leadership stuff at the top uh like Messiah used to. That makes sense, right? That makes sense. Uh let’s see. Mon’nique saying, “Did some thinking recently should be heading to the October 10th preseason game.” Oh, for sure. For sure. I mean, maybe we should get something together where we can all go as a group. You know, I could look into group pricing and maybe we can get a group of Raptor Freaks for the preseason game. Uh, I’m guessing that’s the one uh against Boston. There’s one against Boston, there one against Brooklyn. And yeah, I think that’s the Boston date. Uh, October the 10th. Uh, Koy saying, “The good thing is if Casey being hired, we won’t question the integrity of that hire. If there’s one thing you can say about Casey, this guy’s a real one. What I don’t want is a slimy hire. We got enough slime with [ __ ] [ __ ] Keith Belly.” Gloy, you’re getting a dunk. Uh, yeah, this is totally true that that’s another thing that’s really a plus about Casey is he has a man of utmost integrity. Seriously, you know, he didn’t act like an ass when he got fired in some ways unjustly. A lot of people were upset and indignant about it. How can you fire a man who got the coach of the year a week ago? You know, in some ways he could have been very like pissed because the optics of it look bad. And in fact, people diss us for it still to this day. The Raptors franchise is crazy. They h fired a coach of the year a week after he won coach of the year. I know that does sound crazy as [ __ ] but this is the thing. Dwayne Casey has an integrity. He has a certain level of who he is that is very solid, you know, and and that’s something that is a plus in this job search. Let’s just put it that way. This is a huge plus. Clo is exactly right. Stargate saying the Raptors are going to be a top three team next season. Mark my words, it will be a tossup between Cleveland, Detroit, and Toronto for the top three in the East, barring injury. You’ll see. I love what he’s saying, and I’m not going to say he’s crazy. Some people may say he’s crazy, but I’m not because I think he’s exactly right. I think that we are going to be a homecourt advantage playoff team in the Eastern Conference this year. And part of it is that the the Celtics have gone downhill because they’re in trouble with Tatum out. They’re going to tank on purpose. Part of it is Milwaukee is going to flop huge this year. Uh I don’t expect Embiid to come back. I think that the Sixers are going to be bad again. I feel like the Knicks are going to implode this year under Mike Brown. There’s all kinds of ways that this playing field’s opening up. The backfield’s opening up. we could run this ball to the to the end zone with this setup of what’s happening. Tyrese is out. Indiana’s gonna be worse. There’s all kinds of things that are happening here. And the Raptors are set to boomerang up and all these teams are having setbacks this year. It’s a very good year for us to jump and take a higher position in the playoffs situation for the Eastern Conference this year and establish ourselves like we did with Case and Dear and Kyle in the 2010s. I’m telling you, it’s coming. It’s coming. That’s right. That’s right. Uh uh Mon’nique saying Norman Pal did his first interview interview for Team Jamaica yesterday. All right, let’s go to the Instagram stories since Monnique brought it up. First of all, Toronto Tempo President’s putting out that the WNBA Canada game ticket giveaway is going on. So you guys, uh if you join the Toronto Tempo fan club, it’s official. You can get access to all kinds of special early stuff with related to the Toronto Tempo before other people in the public get access to. So, highly recommend becoming a Toronto Tempo fan club official member because there’s all kinds of perks coming. There’s Teresa in front of the sign says, “Welcome to the W.” She looks so happy. I’m so happy for her and what she’s building right now. It’s so fun to see the process and see what Teresa’s doing. Uh there’s Colin Marie Bole putting up threes back in the community back in uh back in his uh stomping grounds back in the day. Yeah, he’s putting up a lot of good threes. It looks the form looks good and it looks like he’s nice and uh uniform with his uh shots at one after the other. So, keep going Colin Murray Boils. We’re going to need you to hit that corner three. That’s going to be a very vital thing for your career. Trust me, you’re going to need that. Going to need that. But yeah, we’re seeing more uh pickup game stuff with Colin, hitting the hitting the corner three, getting steals, doing stuff like that. The man’s going to be making his way to Europe next. He should be in Spain tomorrow because it’s going to be August. And the Raptors training camp in Madrid, Spain at Real Madrid’s training facilities is going to commence in the next couple days. Travel day to get there. There’s Sergbanka. He’s in LA. He’s eating at a famous restaurant and there he is at the court side of a WNBA game with his buddy. Yeah. Uh Serge, live your best life. Uh there’s some signs that Chris Buchchet is pissed off, guys. Chris Buchchet on his Instagram has got uh the kid from Boondocs, the tough brother. Uh, and he’s his mood is seriously pissed is what it looks like. So, it’s sounding like Chris is pissed off, guys, as of last night. And, uh, there’s also he’s one thing where the kid’s getting asked when someone asked me, “Are you drinking this weekend?” And he says, “I’m going to have to wait and see.” So, it may be that the decision that’s happening with Chris Buché and his free agency is going to happen in the next couple days before this weekend. And well, Chris may be drinking in celebration or in sadness. I’m not totally sure what the message is here, but yeah, Chris, man, whatever’s happening, man, we wish you the best. We love you. Bless Chris Bucher and whatever’s coming for him next. He’s putting on blast. Uh Canadian U uh tennis player Eugenie Buchard. I don’t know. He’s a tennis fan, too. Let’s see. Uh Jamal Shed’s got Kingston Flemings invited camp CP3 or something like that. Okay. I don’t know what exactly what’s going on there. They’re showing highlights from the last year. Raptors official at men put out clips of the Raptors with the ball on the string which was really cool fun uh montage of Raptors highlights from last season. You see just how amazing our players are in that clip. Thank you Raptors and men for the good drop. Uh there’s a back to school bla bash that’s uh coming up in uh plug flugerville Tennessee Texas that uh Jamal Shed’s putting on blast. It’s to raise funds and uh supplies for kids going back to school. So you can we’re bringing like backpacks and all kinds of other stuff that kids might need for school. That’s what he’s put on blast. Emanuel Quickley is doing the the runs. He’s doing the the drills and he’s putting in that work. We see him in another gym down south. Uh IQ is putting in that work. He’s been at Remy. He’s been on airplanes going somewhere else. Yeah, IQ’s going to be over in uh Europe, too, very, very soon. Yesterday was SGA day in Oklahoma City. They’ve been going through all the Oklahoma City Thunder and declaring uh their day. They did Lugets Dort Day the other day and they also did Jaylen Williams day, but yesterday was SGA day in Oklahoma City. So, yeah, it’s pretty cool they’re doing that for all them. There he is with the a Canadian flag draped around his waist with the Larry O’Brien. SGA, you’re a badass, man. We love you up here on the Raptor streak channel. That’s right. Uh there’s Norman Powell with the Sketchers and there’s the interview that Mon’nique’s talking about talking about how he heard all the players in the NBA talking about playing in FIA basketball for their countries and how much fun it is and how different it is to play people that you play in the NBA. It’s different in the FIBA. And well, that’s part of the reason why Norman wanted to join team Jamaica is so he could get that FIBA feel and play against uh his NBA contemporaries in that setting and see what the difference is. So Norman was saying there. Uh Jeff Landicho’s got all kinds of footage from Giants of Africa which is in full effect a couple days in now. Lots of great uh dancing music and drills and skills and all kinds of stuff going on over there. Jeff Landicho of course the producer of Open Gym, the creator of Open Gym. And yeah, we just wish him the best. And uh Messiah and Giants of Africa, Kimberly, everybody in the clip we see uh some of the Raptors assistant coaches are there. I see Britney Donaldson. I see uh Koko Wade. I see also Mary’s Andradi in this clip here uh having a good time. There’s Jamba, too. So, yeah, that’s good stuff. There’s Elijah Martin out in the yard with his dog. Of course, he just recently got his dog tattooed on his body. But yeah, Elijah loves his dog. His dog’s so cute, too. So, one of those big-headed dogs. It’s one of those big-headed dogs. Let’s see who else we got. We got Evan Gillard. He’s back in Toronto. I love to see Evan Gillard checking in in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Yeah. So, let’s see. Calgary Serge, are you playing the Scarbo Shooting Stars? Is that why you’re back in town? There’s Lloyd taking a picture of the Greek countryside that I think I see some like olive or no, those are little huts that they’re they’re hanging out in. Okay. Grady Dick, a youth basketball camps coming up really fast, guys. In Witchah, uh it’ll be in Belair, Kansas. Uh August the 10th, 2025, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Boys and girls 6 to 16. You are invited to Grady Dick youth basketball camp in Witchah, Belair, Kansas. That’s right. Jacobe Walter putting in that work with some of his other alma mater guys from his youth like Kase Wallace. So there he’s out there putting in work with other guys from around the league right now. Scotty’s got quite the scene on his Instagram. Scotty Barnes in Greece in a big party with a lot of people enjoying his time off. Well, it’s about time to get to work in Madrid, my guy. So get on that plane and hop from Greece to Spain and see Mr. uh Ryakovich. You got to do start uh the the training camps coming very soon. Jack, hello. Jack Armstrong is Comedy Records weekend’s coming up, guys. Jack Armstrong is involved and that will be going on this weekend. Charity basketball games with comedians and the industry. It’ll be at Madame Athletic Center on the on Sunday the 3rd at 1 PM. If you want to go and support Comedy Records and their great uh uh charities with Jack Armstrong, go on down there. There you go. There’s your Instagram stories for today. Yeah, Scotty’s in Greece. Scotty’s in Greece. That’s right. Smith saying Shannon Sharp got fired. Yeah, we knew that was going to happen. We knew that was going to happen. It was just that the other shoe had to drop at a certain point. Smith saying Stephen A. Smith bailing batting a thousand so far. All these guys were recommended by him. Morris Arenas and Sharp. Yeah, these are all knuckleheads. Knuckleheads. I’ll tell you who the knuckleheads are. You know, my stream yesterday covered one of the greatest broadcasting crews that’s ever been assembled and they haven’t even started yet. And watch. They’re gonna be badasses. Michael, Vince, Tracy, Carmemelllo, Grant Hill, Jamal Crawford. Yeah, this is going to be epic stuff. I’m telling you right now, they’re going to be great. And all these jabronies that have been on the news on uh on doing a ESPN for a while, like Kendrick Perkins and these guys you named. Yeah. Yeah. They’re going to look like they pale in comparison to the product that NBA on NBC is going to put out. These guys are going to be real journalists knowing what they’re talking about. Top of their field. Michael Jordan’s involved. Come on now. You’re gonna think that Michael Jordan don’t know what he’s talking about when he talks about the current NBA. These guys are gonna be working on talking about the actual sport and the ex’s nose and the game and not all the extraneous [ __ ] that the SBN heads like Stephen A. Smith and Shannon Sharp like to talk about. So yeah, NBA on NBC is going to come and show everybody how to cover the NBA correctly once again. Trust me, it’s coming. That’s right. Uh Kareem saying, “Reggie, you might be on to something.” Is uh Stephen A. Smith Clayton Bsby? I don’t know. Poor guy. I mean, I’d like to see him get his day at some point, but I don’t think they will. In some ways, he seems like he’s a he’s going to be in there. Mike’s saying this, “The Bulls run like the president is the real GM, and Mark Eversley is number two, like how it was at first with Messiah and the Magic Executive Now.” That was our first GM under Messiah. Yeah. Uh whatchamacallit who went down there? Um I forget his name. Uh let’s see. Uh the Bobby is press could work still. Yeah. Jeff Welman. That’s right. That’s his name. He was our first GM under Messiah. Yeah. I mean, listen, it’s not like Messiah didn’t help Bobby do the job, but he did let Bobby do all the leg work. A lot of the calling places and stuff, sure, Messiah did some of it, but Bobby was doing the majority of it. And then, you know, it’s just kind of overall quality control is what that position Messiah was in. Is as far as like is the Raptors franchise and brand, is the team going in the right direction as far as like uh roster-wise. Is it like uh you know, are we also like doing what the owners want? I’ll talk to them for us. You know, he was kind of connected to everything and kind of overall overall quality control. Messiah Jiri and that’s kind of what that position is. It’s not necessarily do the jobs of the GM. It’s not necessarily, you know, make the designs of the new jerseys in the way we’re going to look, but there is a grand vision that he holds in his head that sees the whole big picture. And he wants to make sure that the decisions are made for the franchise are true to that vision is what I’m saying. And that’s that’s kind of what Messiah was doing, right? Shaq’s saying a little off topic. Well, what was the appeal for Brandon Ingram to extend with Toronto? Brandon Ingram says he loves the roast. Uh I think the difference with Toronto uh compared to other starting five rosters in the league is our five are not only scorers, but facilitators. They can play with the bench and other rotation pieces. Okay. You mean the the word was what? He loves our roster. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he’s smart. He’s a basketball guy. He’s a junkie. He loves to play. He’s cerebral. You know, some people say, “Oh, no. He’s a knucklehead.” No, he’s not. The man knows his basketball. And from the outside, he looked at what we’re doing, Coach Rayakovich, and everything, and he’s like, “You know what? This is a really healthy team, and there’s a lot of cool stuff going on here that’s different than what I dealt with in LA or in New Orleans, and I’m excited to be on a team that’s functionally like kind of doing well.” And that’s that’s the thing right there. He can see the promise in our young players. He sat on the bench last year and saw them real up close. So yeah, there’s there’s a lot of reasons for him to sign that extension. It’s also money and he wouldn’t have gotten as much on the free agency market this summer. That’s big part of it too right there. But yeah, this situation’s healthy and non-toxic and he likes it and he was very happy to extend with us for sure. Mo saying wream w vibes go raptors for life. Keep at it Lex Raptor free crew strong forever. Just helping me limit the comments. Yeah, I’m at hour and a half. I got another half hour to to mess around. Y’all, the phone line is open if you want to call me on the phone. You can tell me what you think about Dwayne Casey as possibly being the team president of the Raptors. You can talk about any of the subjects. You want to talk about Brandon Ingram, you want to talk about Scotty Barnes. It’s a free-for-all. The think tank is open and I want to hear what y’all think about Raptors related issues and, you know, maybe even NBA related issues. That’s fine. Yeah, it’s totally fine with me. All right, let me get on my tabs. Yeah, it’s just disappointing that 391 people versus 31 think that Dwayne Casey would be a bad hire. That’s a very uneducated uh thing to thing to think. I’m telling you right now, he’d be perfect for the job and he’d very much help us in this situation. All right, straight goods on Canadian goods, guys. Today I’m talking about beans. That’s right, canned beans. Do you want to support Canada? Do you want to know what Canadian bean company to buy from? 100% Canadianowned. Beans are grown, processed and packaged in Canada and they focus on sustainability in Canadian agriculture. This company is called Cullins. Cullins beans are great beans for you to buy. So if you see the name brand Cullins Foods, Cullins is great for Canada. It’s Canadian company. As I said, everything’s sustained here in Canada, grown here, everything, the whole kitten kaboodleoodle. Everything stays here in our economy. So if you’re going to go buy beans, canned beans, buy from Cullins. Cullins is your name brand for beans. There you go. Straight goods on beans. Beans. That’s right. Beans. Beans. All right, let’s do the birthday real quick. We got a birthday for original Raptor. Tony Massenberg, guys. Tony Massenberg was on the original Raptors team and uh he’s been around the league for a long long time. He’s one of the few players in the league that played for at least 12 teams. He had the record for most teams played. tied with Joe Smith, Jim Jackson, and Chucky Brown. But then Ish Smith played for a 13th team and he broke all their records. But yeah, he’s one of those guys that played for 12 teams in the NBA. Tony Massenberg. He’s 58 years old today, guys. And I want to wish Tony a happy birthday. Tony Tony is actually a pretty cool guy. like he’s got um um he uh has opened a restaurant in Maryland and he’s also he’s still currently doing a playbyplay for the Wizards on some of their broadcasts. So that’s what Tony Massenberg is doing these days. Did you also know that Tony Massenberg is an NBA champion? He won a championship with the Spurs in his last season as an NBA player in 2005. So he won a championship with the Spurs and their second championship. So yeah, congratulations and happy birthday to Tony Massenberg, original Raptor from our first year. You guys remember Tony? Tony Massenberg a big big forward. Yeah, big forward. That’s right. Mike’s saying Messiah was our GM under Brian at first. Then we fired Brian and made Messiah Press. I could see the same thing happening now. Yeah, and there’s nothing wrong with this. Once again, Bobb’s in his early 40s, guys. He’s barely 40. I don’t even think he’s like I think he maybe still in his I want to think he’s in his late 30s in some ways. No, he’s 40. He’s somewhere in his 40s. But Bobb’s so young in some ways he’s got some very active years where he can do the grunt, very stressful, tough job that the GM job is. And he can always be bumped up to president down the road. He really can. Give him his time. Give him his time. Yeah. Kareem saying it’s also Wesley Snip’s birthday. He looks really weird. Uh new slump city. That’s mean. Hashtag Newslump City. Why’d you do that to him? Yeah. I I I I found out that they replaced uh Blade. Uh Wesley Snipes does not play Blade anymore. And I’m like, what the why are you doing that? Seriously, you got somebody else playing Blade? No. Wesley Snipes should be Blade. What is going on here? Just because tax evasion and being in pre uh prison? No. Wesley Snipes always be Blade to me? That don’t make no sense to me. It’s weird. Uh, let’s see. Mike saying 45, I think you said on the live interview with Will and Alex. That may be right. I don’t know. He’s deceivingly young. He’s like he’s he’s actually he’s deceivingly older than he looks. He looks like he’s in his 30s, but he’s probably like 45, like Mike said. Yeah. Yeah, that’s probably right. Of course, we found out that Bobby lives in Cab Cabbage Town, not far from the arena, which is smart. In some ways, you want to be able to get down to the arena quick and you don’t want to live too far away from it if you’re like Bobby Webster, the GM of the Raptors. So, yeah, it’s pretty cool. Pretty cool. All right, let me keep going. And the the tabs. Yeah, we did the happy birthday for Tony Massenberg. Let’s go ahead and do a classic card. Why not? Let’s get on that classic card, too. Shake up the cards and see what we get today. Hopefully we get a good card. Yeah, we’ll do this one. This one’s a little bit tough. We’ll see how you guys do. Full name answer. Please do not give me half their name, their last name or their first name. Give me their full name, please. Here you go. Here’s the classic card. It’s more recent. It’s a re more recent Hoops card, but actually this player is not totally uh recent. This is not really a recent card. It is a recent card, but it isn’t a recent card. It’s not as classic as some of our cars like 1990. This is more recent, but it’s not totally current. Let’s just put it that way. So, yeah. Full name answer, please, if you can tell me which former Celtic this is. Uh I think you can kind of tell who it is. Maybe, maybe not. There’s some uh connection with this guy in our Raptors uh Raptors team. Marcus Smart’s a good answer, Mike, but it’s not right. It is from that era, though. So you can uh kind of guess who was a teammate of Marcus that might have be this card, but it’s not Marcus. It’s not Marcus Smart. The latest Laker, which I think that also that’s kind of a joke along with DeAndre Aton. They got DeAndre Aton and Marcus Smart and they reloaded. Okay. All right, LA. Kemell Walker is right. Good job, Mike. That is Kemell Walker on the card. Of course, Kemell Walker got exposed in the bubble um uh series against the Raptors, and some blame Kembell Nick Nurse for ending Kemell Walker’s career, and he now plays overseas because of this. Now, um you know, I’m doing the 5-year anniversary of the bubble stuff that happened in the NBA at this time. Five years ago, the Raptors were in Orlando in the bubble playing uh exhibition games and regular season games to get ready for the bubble uh playoffs in which they swept the Brooklyn Nets and then they played an epic seven game series against the Boston Celtics and Kemell Walker. You guys can relive the five-year anniversary of those games on their dates if you’re following this channel. The clips are coming out. There’s going to be one coming out tomorrow. Uh, it’s a fiveyear anniversary of us playing the Lakers in the bubble in a regular season game. So, if you want to check out Lex reacting, this is the very early germinating seeds of this stream, the Raptor Freak stream. You want to see where I was five years ago and covering the Raptors and how I was doing it, check out the Instagram uh uploaded YouTube clips that are being posted uh on the side. They’re little less than five minute clips, but they’re from the day five years ago and me covering these games that the Raptors played in the bubble. Uh the post championship year in 2020, five years ago on the day. Here you go. Kemell Walker. Uh we’ll give you I’m gonna I don’t think this card is that hard, but I don’t think it’s a 50. So I’m going to give you a hundred for it. Kembell Walker is the card, and Mike is going to get 100 points for it for uh getting Kemba. Yeah, Mike, I don’t even know if you’re on our trivia points list yet, so you’re gonna get on there first for the first time uh this season. There you go. Good to see Mike in the chat this morning. So, Mike, could you call me right now and give me a little bit of your takes on Dwayne Casey as possible president? I’d love for you to call me. Mike, I might call you. If I called you right now, would you answer, Mike? Because I want to get one more call in. I still have a little bit more time and I always enjoy talking to my good friend Logical Raptors fanatic and I feel like this would be good. Mike, I’m going to call you and if you answer me, that’s great, but if you don’t, I understand you don’t want to talk on the phone. So, I’m going to put Mike on the Let’s see if he comes in here. Happy birthday to Blade. That’s right, Seymour. That’s right. He’s the only Blade I know. That’s right. Hello. Hello. Is this logical Raptors fanatic? What’s up? What’s up, Mike? I’ve got you on the air on the Thursday think tank right now. I just felt like getting another call in. Uh can having you on the phone to be able to talk to you. I love the way you’re uh illustrating the different power structures of the Raptors with Messiah and uh Dan Welman before and how we did things and stuff like that. Mike, if you had your personal choice, what would you have happen with this uh vacancy for team president with the Raptors? What do you think is the best case scenario for what we should do? I think um Bobby would definitely be probably the first choice in my mind. And then you probably bring up uh Dan Tolsma as like the GM under him and then everything kind of stays the same regarding everything else. Yeah. All the medical, all the like everything still keeps rolling on, right? Like what we have set right now. Yeah. We can let it play out and then whatever, you know what I mean? After that, we can see what happens. So, you want you want them to hire a lower tier executive to go underneath Bobby and Dan? Well, um like like it doesn’t necessarily like Bobb’s smart enough to handle like the the the different things that come with President. I’m I’m sure he’s he’s really smart. The big issue The big issue right here is that the workload is not changed and one person that helped to do the workload is gone. And the the the big thing is like there’s there’s there’s three jobs there that two guys are doing the jobs for right now. So it’s like you gotta bring back one person. This is the whole reason. No, no, no. I think we should promote our our like head uh scout guy into a system. Just keep it absolutely internal. Push everyone up. Push everyone up the ranks and then and not even bring in somebody else. Well, then you bring in a new a new scout. You have an opportunity for somebody to come in as a new scout from the bottom. Yeah. Exactly. So like it’s natural like succession of people that know everything that’s in place that are familiar with and nobody knew coming in. There’s no unknown quantity unless they’re a new scout and they’re at the bottom and they they don’t matter because they’re just they’re trying to get a foothold into the organization to try and work for it. So yeah, because um because I think uh I I watched a good thing that Will Lou did where he was talking about different things, but he was saying our our scouting structure is really important to keep in place. And I think cementing that by like bringing up Dan Tolsma as GM really cementss that as our strength of so development. Keith P. If Keith P decides that he thinks that Bobb’s best at GM and he doesn’t want to bump anybody up, who do you think would be good candidates for the the job above Bobby in between him and Keith P? It’s hard because I don’t know these people personally. So like yeah, like I I it’s it’s a little bit different on that. So, you’ve you’ve heard names like Chad Buchanan, uh Kevin Prashard, Bob Meyers, uh there’s been a couple other names that are around the league and other teams. Um I I like the the the diversity of what they’re looking at. They’re looking at a lot of different people. It’s not like a clone of the same person. So, I I think they are doing some due diligence around what they want to do. I think that the points by some of the people in the stream today that not trusting the the the ownership as far as their intentions and what they’re going to try and do to replace Najiri could you know could you see like what I obviously I think as soon as they make the decision I’ll be able to read through whether it’s a good one or not and uh uh what do you think the the message would be like say they did hire Dwayne Casey as president and all of a sudden most of the Raptors nation’s up in arms and they’re crazy and they think that it’s a really bad move and then they’re like getting mad at Ed Rogers for that. I think that would they should be the opposite. I think they should be okay. This is good because we’ve got a familiar guy we can trust. But I could see this scenario work working out this way where it’s like they see Casey as a retread and they’re kind of like why are we doing this? and like but they don’t understand the whole reasoning that we’re trying to explain on this show today. I feel like that would be really weird situation where like the fans reject What’s that? Go ahead. I think they don’t understand Casey’s been doing a different job for the last bunch of years. Yeah. He’s been setting up the Piston scouting and development stuff. Yeah. Behind the scenes. And one of the reasons that they’re doing a lot better now with like getting certain players and actually able to like develop them somewhat. He he built a reputation for Detroit and he made Detroit a more attractive place to be and now they’re getting better free agents and now they’re getting some uh traction with uh their centerpiece around Kate Cunningham and uh you know these are things that you know he were under his watch and he was a part of helping to happen. So, I think that like the thing I would say to general Raptor fan right now is Dwayane Casey’s been in multiple situations in his professional career where the franchise he’s associated with is moving upward. Like the Mavericks as an assistant coach under Carile, they moved upward and won the championship. On the Raptors, he came in and took a team that was at the bottom of the standings and moved them upward. He did the same thing with Detroit. So, I I I just don’t get how Raptors Nation can be sleeping on this so badly about how Casey’s a successful guy and you guys thinking he’s a failure. Well, do you think Demar Rosen’s a failure as an NBA player also? Oh, you do? We are an idiot and you don’t look at the right things is what I would tell those people. So, uh Mike, anything else you want to say real quick before I I let you go? I don’t know. Yeah, just like there’s a couple interesting things. The only people that I really like are probably like Casey, Bobby, Mark, and the I think the two indie guys maybe could be okay. Yeah, I don’t think it’s realistic that we’d get Pashard because honestly Pashard that would be a lateral move and he’s just coming off an Eastern Conference Finals appearance with the Pacers and in some ways it’s like I I I just don’t see it. I think No, but the thing is that the Indie they’re really the owners do not spend the same way. Yeah. So maybe unleashing him like with more resources. But part of the problem, Mike, isn’t isn’t necessarily that. It’s also they they have him under contract. So it may not even be up there for even if he wanted to move. They could be like, “No, you’re under contract. You’re staying here.” You know? Yeah. I’m just saying like out of the guys that I’ve heard of them talking or wanting or did background on Yeah. whatever. I mean, I think those five guys, if we can get like one of them, probably could be really good for us. Right on, Mike. All right. Well, I appreciate you talking to me so early in the morning, Mike, and I hope you have a great rest of the day, and I appreciate you letting me call call you. It’s all right. All right, Mike. We love Logical Raptors Fanatic. We love your channel, and I appreciate your astuteness, your capology, all that stuff. Mike is great, man. I appreciate Mike so much. I think like once again the whole thing about this position is we want it to be healthy and it is very much valuable if the person respects Canada. If we hired a Canadian to do this job that’s a better idea in some ways because they’re more likely to have loyalty towards the franchise in our country and our city. In some ways that does matter guys. I know it sounds crazy and people say no we want the best possible person for the job. Well, in some ways, when you’re figuring out who the best possible person is, you know, it has to do with loyalty. It has to do with trust. It has to do with whether we feel like this person’s competent and able to do the job well enough so that we can be successful. And that’s the most important stuff. And I I I really want to plead the case for Casey because this guy, honestly, he really really does love Toronto. He has an important part of our history. He respects our franchise, our culture, the things that Messiahi and Bobby Webster and other people have built along with him at earlier times. This is all something that like in some ways it’s kind of like Casey would come back and see it as a house that he helps build the foundation for and he’s like, “Oh, how’s the house doing?” And like, “Ah, you know what? I’d like to hang out in this house again and help beautify it and decorate it and make it even better and renovate it even better now.” You know? So, it’s listen, it’s a it’s a no-brainer. Casey’s excellent job choice for the job, Raptors fans. It’s a shallow take to just say, “Oh, no. He’s bad for it.” Because functionalitywise, he’s exactly what the kind of person we want. He’s exactly because we can trust him. He respects our country, our team, and our city, and the culture that Messiah Jiri had built. He’s also a great basketball mind. He’s a scout. He’s a coach himself. He has a lot of the different levels of the organization understood because he’s been in those positions made as assistant coach all the way up to front office worker. So I’m just saying I over and over again try and tell everybody Dwayne Casey’s absolutely a great choice to fill this position and don’t just look at the optics as oh this is a guy that we got fired and he’s a loser and he shouldn’t come back around our team because he’s a proven loser. He’s not a proven loser. is proven for success and uh you know it’s only casuals that look at the NBA championship as the only thing to determine anything on. You know, seriously, that’s why you’re deciding he’s a loser is because he missed out on our championship because we fired him the year before. You’re an idiot. Okay, I just got to say that you’re an idiot if you’re basing everything that you decide on Dwayne Casey on that. It’s the same people, like I said, that disrespect Demar De Rozan and say he’s a loser just because we traded him right before we won a championship. That’s shallow, low IQ thinking. Demard de Rosen’s a top 25 all-time scorer in the history of the NBA cumulative career-wise. And you don’t get to that point without excellence and success. The NBA championship is not the end- all beall in the NBA, guys. Charles Barkley never won one. Patrick Yui never won one. John Stockton never won one. And these guys are still important legends in the history of the NBA. It’s very rare and tough to win NBA championships. That’s why y’all spoiled ass Raptors fans who don’t understand this from the 2019 championship just how special it was. So yeah, and it’s very difficult to get the next one. We will get the next one though. And I’d love to see Dwayne Casey be the team president that does it so that he can hold it up and feel that shine of the championship in that position. And in some ways he’ll be winning it for Messiah also because he do it in his honor even though that man fired him at some point. And what a sweet special come from around turnaround that the Casey can come back and get a ring with the Raptors as the team president when they get their second one with Scotty Barnes as the franchise face in the nuculus. That sounds like a beautiful future to write right there. What I just said right there, that sounds like a beautiful, beautiful future. Koy saying somehow Casey has gotten the reputation of not being not smart because of his playoff losses, which is dumb to these fast Raptors fans. I want to say once again, and I’ll be I’m completely honest on this, Casey was not quick on his feet with his changes and alterations during the playoff atmosphere. In some ways, that was a plus that Nick had over Casey was he’s lighter on his toes to change and adapt to the changes in the games with adjustments. That was his Achilles heel, and it did absolutely hurt us. There’s a clip that’s on Reddit right now where they’re showing Casey throwing a play up that’s on the wrong side. Listen, [ __ ] You try and coach the NBA. You try and be perfect every single play in the NBA. Everybody makes mistakes in the NBA when they coach. It’s just you want to lessen the mistakes. But you know what? You didn’t even coach a high school team or any other team, people that are criticized Dwayne Casey. He got to the NBA. And even if he made some knuckle-headed mistakes at times, everybody makes mistakes at times. That’s part of life. And in some ways, like look, he’s at that level. You know, these coaches that are coaching now, they make mistakes, too. All of them. They they [ __ ] up. Rick Carile [ __ ] up at times during the finals just like Mark Dagnel fi [ __ ] up at times in the finals too. So it’s just a part of the game. You’re not perfect. You’re not going to make every single decision as a coach exactly right. You’re going to [ __ ] up from time to time. That is part of it. And well you guys want to show a highlight reel of Dwayne Casey all his fuckups as a Raptors coach. Well that’s you’re not looking at the right thing here. You’re not looking at it. Everybody does makes these decisions and makes mess ups and stuff like that. Yeah. It’s different skill set needed for being executive. He’s not being hired as a coach. Exactly. He can sit back and ponder. He can think about things. He can worry about things on a bigger scale and a bigger way and not in the fastmoving way. Darko has to worry about the adjustments. Darko has to worry about this substitutions and uh making the adjustments when we get the playoffs of making the right decisions in time in the real time of what has to happen in the chess game that the NBA playoffs can be coach versus coach. You know, it’s like, you know, Casey’s great regular season coach. I won’t disagree with you. He’s also not the best playoff coach. I won’t disagree with you, but that’s not what we’re hiring right now. We’re not hiring a guy to take our Raptors into the playoffs as a head coach. No, we’re hiring a man to be the team president. And in some ways, he would be able to do that. Exactly. Right. He would. I know it. I know it for sure. I’m telling you right now, Casey is the right guy. It’s he he respects our team. He respects our city. He respects our culture. In some ways, he would do things in the honor of Messiah past him in some ways. That’s what it is right there. Yeah. Shaq Lindsay saying that Colary Bole’s looking nice in a pickup runs in LA. Probably my first time I’ve ever seen someone play defense in a pickup run. I love it. I mean, he can’t help it. It’s part of his DNA makeup as a player. He is a defensive player first. And I love that about Colin Ro. That’s probably a big reason why uh Bobby and Messiah wanted to draft it is because Defense First is a calling card for the Raptors players that we like. All right, y’all. I’m going to finish up everybody. Thank you for watching the Raptor Freak Thursday Think Tank call-in show. I wanted to make the case for Casey and I hope I’ve made it very, very clear why I think he’s absolutely an acceptable choice and he would be fantastic in this role. You guys got to understand there’s all kinds of decisions that could be made in this decision that could be very bad for our team. And in some ways, an unknown quantity, somebody that we don’t know already is scary to me. They could be very good. I’m not going to lie. Unknown person could come in and be very very good at the job. I I won’t disagree with you, but there’s way more unknown about it than a known quantity, a known person, a person that’s already worked closely with the people that are already here and knows them and has working relationships with them already. In some ways, you you know, the NBA is about drafting sure things, right? In the the playoffs, and I mean, in the draft, you want to draft a player that’s not going to be a bust. You don’t want to make a risk on somebody like a common malawak possibly you’d rather get a more steady dependable player by the metrics and calling Murray Bulls. Well, in some ways the hiring of the next team president for the Raptors should be looked at this way, too. We want more of a sure bet. We don’t want to bust on the team president job, Keith P. So, be real smart. be real smart about this because in some ways I’m judging you like I used to judge Richard Petty and I’m judging you on whether you’re actually being toxic for our team or you’re actually trying to help our team and that’s that next decision is going to tell me a lot about what you’re doing. Firing you right there was toxic for our team. Let’s just not get it twisted. Firing Jerry was toxic for the Raptors and unnecessary to be quite honest. And that’s why I say [ __ ] you Keith Belly today. I’ll say it to the rest of my life. I say it on behalf of Messiah Jeria and [ __ ] you Ed Rogers III too. Yeah, but yeah, in some ways what the move you make will tell me whether you’re for us or not. You’re going to show your hand to me slowly by slowly. Ed Rogers the third and Keith P with your intentions towards the Toronto Raptors and what you want to mold them to be in the near future. You can show me your intentions by your decisions. So, let’s see what you’re going to do. That’s what it is, right? the case for Casey Strong. And I hope that you’ve been swayed a bit more if you were a person who was kind of against the idea of it. Uh I hope you came and watched my stream today and hopefully I gave you some good points on why it would be absolutely a great hire. Seriously, Casey’s an important part of our history. He’s a very very good part of our history. He’s a successful part of our history. Let’s not get it twisted. Let’s not get it twisted. Uh Mike is saying this. Casey is a defensive coach at start. He probably understands developing defense and could enhance our system with new stuff on he learned on the Pistons. I don’t know how Bobby would feel though. I don’t think Bobby would have any problem with, you know, Bobb’s not an ego guy. In some ways, Bobby is younger than Dwayne. He could look up to Dwayne as an older man and say, you know, there’s certain things that Dwayne did in his career that I don’t understand. So, I don’t think this is an issue. I think that the seniority of age can help a lot here. Even if Bobby was possibly over Dwayne earlier in the Raptors history as a head coach, a GM over head coach, it doesn’t matter. In some ways, Bobby Webster is not an ego like this. He’s smart. He’s smarter than that. His ego is not going to get in the way. In some ways, he wants to do a good job for the Raptors as the GM. And well, if he has somebody working with him that he knows and he can work with and Dwayne Casey, he’s going to be perfectly fine. I think that people are throwing a lot of labels on Bobby that he’s uh got ambitions and if he doesn’t get his ambitions, he’ll be unhappy. I think that’s absolutely wrong. I think that’s absolutely wrong. Bobby Webster knows that his progression in his professional career in the NBA is going to lo uh logically move forward and get better and better no matter what because he’s doing a good job. So, in some ways, he he doesn’t have to worry about getting advancing so quickly. In some ways, that’s the way you burn out as a a career is because you push too hard too soon. He needs to let the allow the natural steps of things to happen in the progress of his uh his uh job title. He got GM a lot younger than most people do. He got GM a lot younger than most people do. So, he’s already ahead. Let’s just put it that way. All right. Thanks for watching the Raptor Freak stream today. Please like, comment, subscribe, and share. 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We’re already mad at you guys for that. But you guys can get good faith with the Raptors nation and the fans that love you, Jerry, if you replace him correctly. And that is something we’re watching you guys under a microscope on right now. So, uh, make the right choice. Let’s just say that. Let’s make the right choice. Raptors fans, y’all have been wrong on so many things in the past. Damon Statamire, Scotty Barnes, yeah, those kind of things. Well, you might be wrong on this one, too. If we do hire Casey and y’all act all crazy buttth hurt, yeah, you’re going to look like idiots. Just like the people that booed Damon Stylemire at draft day, the people that got all upset we picked Scotty Barnes over Jaylen Suggs. You don’t know what’s best for us. And that’s been proven over time. And I’m going to say this right now, the case for Casey Strong. And if we hire him and y’all act all buttth hurt about it, he won’t care. And he’ll get the job and y’all just look stupid because you got all but hurt about something that you didn’t need to. All right, so let’s go Raptors. Let’s go tempo. Let’s go team Canada basketball. Let’s go Raptor freaks. I love you guys. I’ll see you guys tomorrow. Friday freakout. 9:30 a.m. Friday morning. Every single day the streak continues. Over 1,400 days in a row I’ve done this show. That’s right. It’ll be four years straight in September. Let’s go, Raptor Freaks. Let’s go, baby. Woo.
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Jays winning right now is a blessing in disguise for us.
MLSE showed today with the trade deadline deal they made that they are commited to winning and that's all we want to see.🙂