THE TORONTO RAPTORS are a rarity in the modern NBA: a franchise with options.
Plenty of teams have sold off their draft picks to chase contention immediately. Plenty more have moved their stars to pursue futures built around young talent and the NBA draft.
But Toronto is stuck somewhere in between.
The Raptors control all of their first-round picks moving forward. They are considered leaguewide to be an elite organization at every level of management -- from ownership (Larry Tanenbaum) to front office (team president Masai Ujiri Ujiri and general manager Bobby Webster) to coach (Nick Nurse).