{"id":703331,"date":"2026-04-07T13:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/703331\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:24:21","slug":"toronto-raptors-must-make-an-offseason-deal-to-contend-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/703331\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors Must Make an Offseason Deal to Contend in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While this is just the first year that this core is together, it seems the ceiling is rather low, given the consistent lack of offense, and specifically fourth-quarter offense. The Raptors don\u2019t have a 27+ point-per-game scorer, and four 17-21 point-per-game scorers simply isn\u2019t going to cut it against the league\u2019s best. Not to mention, the starting five alone is making $156.5 million this season, with that number set to increase next season. To put that into perspective, the salary cap in 2025-26 is $154.6 million, so just a third of the Raptors\u2019 team puts them over the cap.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While this is just the first year that this core is together, it seems the ceiling is rather&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,6,681,680,476,3820],"class_list":{"0":"post-703331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-raptors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-raptors","11":"tag-toronto","12":"tag-toronto-raptors","13":"tag-torontoraptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}