Holiday gifts for every Toronto Raptor, including Danny Green’s time machine
Kyle Lowry – The gift of silence
Kyle Lowry is great because he is a bulldog, he plays his tail off, and he has a bit of an edge. Sometimes that edge can turn from a positive to a negative.
After every single call, he is chirping in the ref’s ear. Sometimes they show the replay and I am truly amazed how anyone could disagree with the referee’s call. He truly embodies the spirit of Toronto with an irrational fear of unfair officiating.
But sometimes I wish Kyle could just let the refs be. Every once in a while just let the refs have a silent night.
Danny Green – A time machine
Danny Green is the quintessential Three-and-D player. He’s fallen off a hair defensively, but still is above-average and is shooting greater than 40-percent from behind the arc.
With his skill-set, Green is still likely to receive a nice bonus when he enters free agency this offseason. But could you imagine what prime Danny Green would have received in today’s NBA?
Green was shooting greater than 40-percent from beyond the arc all throughout his mid-twenties. During that time he was a far superior athlete and a better defender. If Green had that same skill-set in today’s NBA, he’d be making around $20 million per year (Imagine Kentavious Caldwell-Pope with a better jumper).
Green will still earn enough from the tail-end of his career being played in the pace-and-space era, if he was born about five years later, he would have made a lot more.
OG Anunoby – A gift card
OG is a really hard player to read. I figured I’d play this one safe and let him pick out his own gift.