Brian Windhorst

So I would say just in general, you know, there are some teams in the East that are going to be challenged on how they get to the next level with the current rules because,

Some of these – it's not as much of an evaluation as, hey, do you like Jaco Perlo as a player?

Oh, yeah.

I mean, there's a demand for a bunch of center.

Like, there's a whole bunch of teams that need centers.

Absolutely.

There's a bunch of teams that have interest.

Then you bring up Jaco Perlo's contract, you're going to get the phone hung up on you.

It's not about him as a player.

It's about the contract.

Nobody can take an overweight contract in the apron era.

That's just reality.

And the Raptors just have a couple of them.

So –

They've done a really nice job, and I'm not ruling them out in this series.

And I love where Barnes is.

I love where he's at.

But the next step will be a challenge, and they're having a challenge in the next step in this series.

Well, I mean, I can't say that they've already agreed to a contract because I guess they could look me in the eye and say that's not true.

But James Harden had a no-trade clause built into his contract this year, and he agreed to be traded to Cleveland in midseason.