The NBA universe could be in for a big summer if two NBA analysts are to be believed. ESPN\u2019s Brian Windhorst and Shams Charania have indicated in recent days that franchises could be looking to take chances.<\/p>\n
Windhorst suggested Toronto Raptors boss Masai Ujiri could make a play for a big name \u2014 hinting at Giannis Antetokounmpo \u2014 given the lack of depth in the Eastern conference.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to get too far afield from this, but since this has come up, the Raptors are a team that is starting to make noise within the league about looking for a big fish. And, you know, I think because\u2014and I don\u2019t want to get away from this, but I\u2019ve started it myself\u2014if you\u2019re an Eastern Conference team that\u2019s in the middle of the pack, you\u2019re looking at the teams in front of you going, Some of them may not be able to come together, may be able to stay together.\u2019 Boston is hurt, and so there are some teams that sniff the ability to make a move, and I think Toronto is one of those teams.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd so naturally, any team that wants to make a move this summer, especially a team in the Eastern Conference, you\u2019re going to have Giannis on the board. But Toronto, I think, is going to try\u2014from their initial conversations, teams in the league are getting the impression that Toronto is going to try to do something.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI had an executive tell me yesterday that he thinks this could be\u2014could be, could be\u2014an explosive summer.\u201d<\/p>\n
It follows comments from Charania on the Pat McAfee Show stating that \u201cthis is the most I think anticipation team executives have had over an offseason.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA universe could be in for a big summer if two NBA analysts are to be believed.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,45,2949,1409,123,6,567,476],"class_list":{"0":"post-71602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-brian-windhorst","11":"tag-eastern-conference","12":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-shams-charania","15":"tag-toronto-raptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114613321978149558","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71602","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=71602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}