So we’ve established that the Raptors were more or less a steaming pile up until the point of the trade. Let’s take a closer look at the trade that brought Gay to Toronto and the aftershocks of Colangelo’s Last Stand, both then and now.
In retrospect it should have been painfully easy to see that Gay was hardly the answer the Raptors needed - a mismatched piece from the wrong puzzle and only a small part of bigger changes that needed to take place in order for the Raptors to become relevant again.īut it did play an integral part in franchise history and in returning the Raps to winning basketball it hadn’t experienced in half a decade.