Report: 2 Raptors to Be Dealt; Being "Showcased" For Trade

This season hasn't gone well for the Toronto Raptors (unless they come clean and admit that Cooper Flagg is their goal for this season). This year, unlike in previous campaigns, it won't be as difficult for boss man Masai Ujiri to decide on whether to sell off his assets at the trade deadline.

Insiders Marc Stein and Jake Fischer, in fact, say that two Raptors are sounding pretty certain to be dealt, and they're even "showcasing" one of them so that buyers know what they're getting.

Bruce Brown

Ever since they landed him from the Indiana Pacers as part of the Pascal Siakam trade last year, Brown has been on borrowed time as a Raptor. It's just that he borrowed a lot more time than had been expected. He wasn't flipped at last year's deadline, then he wasn't traded around Draft time, and then injuries kept him out of the lineup this season until recently.

But now he's back, and Stein and Fischer refer to the former NBA champ as being "regarded leaguewide as the Most Likely Raptor To Be Traded."

Brown was a key piece off the bench for the Denver Nuggets in their championship playoff run in 2023. He averaged 11.5 points, 4.1 rebounds and 3.4 assists in 28 minutes a night for that Nuggets team, and had similar numbers in the playoffs. But he signed a huge free agent deal with Indiana that summer.

This year, in eight games, playing 18 minutes a night, he's only averaging 6 points and 3.1 rebounds.

Chris Boucher

This is the player that Stein and Fischer say the Raptors "appear to have been showcasing" of late. And he's had some impressive games off the bench. In a recent four-game stretch, Boucher racked up 16.3 points per game.

He's a unique player, coming in with a ton of energy on the second unit, with a long reach, some rim-protecting abilities and the tendency to shoot the three when he's hot (and even when he's not).

The 32-year-old is having his best year in four seasons, recording 10.5 points and 4.5 rebounds in 17.6 minutes a night.

And he has two championship rings, to boot. Granted, he didn't play much in his teams' title runs (0 playoff games for the Golden State Warriors in 2018, and just two appearances for the Raptors in 2019), but he knows what it takes.