5 Bargain players the Raptors can get back in a Chris Boucher trade

No. 2: Dean Wade

The Cleveland Cavaliers don't seem to realize what they have in Dean Wade.

While they continue to bash their head into the wall offensively by forcing two non-shooting centers in Jarrett Allen and Evan Mobley into the starting lineup, year after year their most successful units involve Dean Wade playing power forward beside either Allen or Mobley. With both bigs agreeing to contract extensions this summer, the Cavaliers are committed to playing them both again this season.

That could make Wade gettable on the trade market. Cleveland is currently over the luxury tax, so finding a way to get under will almost certainly be on the docket for this league year. Given Wade's penchant for getting a nagging injury each year, it's not surprising that they would move off of him, but his value as a connective piece would be a steal for the Raptors. Wade is making enough that the Raptors could even take him into their Mid-Level Exception without moving Boucher.

No. 1: Kevin Huerter

The Toronto Raptors are trying to upgrade their shooting, and long-term they hope that Gradey Dick and Ja'Kobe Walter can both be knockdown options who build that into a strength. Another pathway is to add a veteran shooter with a long track record of hitting perimeter shots, someone like Kevin Huerter.

The man whose fiery-red hair translates into his heat-check 3-pointers is a true marksman and movement shooter, but he has fallen out of favor in Sacramento because their key players are all mediocre-or-worse defenders, so the Kings have to prioritize perimeter defense at the shooting guard position. The Raptors, with Scottie Barnes and Jakob Poeltl excellent defenders in the frontcourt and Immanuel Quickley and RJ Barrett both solid, can afford less of a defender on the wing in exchange for sharpshooting.

If Sacramento traded Huerter to the Raptors for Chris Boucher and a second-round pick (perhaps two), they would get off of $6 million of salary for this season, opening up breathing room for another move by the trade deadline, and they would be free of his entire $17 million salary for next season. That may be enough to entice them to the table, and it makes Kevin Huerter our fifth and final bargain trade target for the Toronto Raptors.