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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: PLANT on July 08, 2009, 02:18:35 PM
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Raptors Sign Bargnani To Contract Extension
July 8, 2009
The Toronto Raptors announced Wednesday they have signed forward-centre Andrea Bargnani to a multi-year contract extension. The Raptors tipped-off a busy off-season for the club when Bargnani signed the contract at 12:01 a.m. Per team policy, financial details were not disclosed.
“Andrea has worked very hard to establish himself as a top-flight, multi-dimensional big man in the NBA,” said Bryan Colangelo, Raptors President and General Manager. “He overcame a rough start last season to emerge as a primary scorer for us, and we anticipate quite a bit more from him in the future.”
Bargnani averaged career highs of 15.4 points, 5.3 rebounds, 1.24 blocked shots and 31.4 minutes in 78 games in the 2008-09 season. He made 59 starts, averaging 17.7 points and 5.9 rebounds. He topped 20 or more points a career-best 23 times. He also scored in double figures in 41 of his final 45 starts, with 20 or more points in 24 of those contests.
Bargnani recorded a career-high 31 points January 14, 2009 versus Chicago. He also set an NBA record last season for the longest streak of consecutive games with two or more three-pointers by a starting centre with 10 consecutive games (December 31 – January 16).
The 7-foot native of Rome, Italy has posted career averages of 12.4 points and 4.7 rebounds in 221 NBA regular season games. He has shot .831 (221-266) from the charity stripe in his three NBA seasons.
Bargnani became the first European-born player selected with the first overall pick in the NBA Draft when he was taken by the Raptors on June 28, 2006. During his first season in the NBA, Bargnani averaged 11.6 points and 3.9 rebounds in 65 games. He was named to the NBA’s All-Rookie First Team and captured T-Mobile Eastern Conference Rookie of the Month honours in January and February.
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Hopefully he can build on what he did last year, he definetly has a lot of potential.
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we've made some good moves this Summer.
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Hopefully he can build on what he did last year, he definetly has a lot of potential.
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any news on Pops Mensah- Bonsu?, the dude singe handedly made the last couple weeks when the raps were done exciting. They need a guy like that to come off the bench to spark them .
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^I guess he is still with us?
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any news on Pops Mensah- Bonsu?, the dude singe handedly made the last couple weeks when the raps were done exciting. They need a guy like that to come off the bench to spark them .
i think they've made a qualifying offer to him.
http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/basketball/wires/story/1120102.html
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yep Im expecting to see Pops in the red white and black next season! he was dope, like a baby kemp back in the day
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looks like Raps will be back in the playoffs
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looks like Raps will be back in the playoffs
8)
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the raps to me havent really addressed there biggest weaknesses from last season. if reggie evans is there answer to toughness then there in trouble. adding turkoglu to the raptors only made them worse in terms of toughness and defence. too many shooters in my opinion, the magic were the same last year but had more options and they still got torched in the finals.
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the raps to me havent really addressed there biggest weaknesses from last season. if reggie evans is there answer to toughness then there in trouble. adding turkoglu to the raptors only made them worse in terms of toughness and defence. too many shooters in my opinion, the magic were the same last year but had more options and they still got torched in the finals.
Raptors are more of an up and down team than a half court one...i think turkoglu is perfect for the system they run. that said, theyre not championship material, of course....but theyll make noise in the east and be pretty exciting to watch. a frontcourt of bosh an bargnani may not be the toughest, but it's far from the worst.
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They are really improved but I'm not sure if they are a lock for the playoffs
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They are really improved but I'm not sure if they are a lock for the playoffs
PG Jose Calderon
SG Anthony Parker
SF Hedo Turkoglu
PF Chris Bosh
C Andrea Bargnani
that's not a playoff team in the east? LOL
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they won't be able to re-sign Parker apparently because they got Turkoglu.
he might be on his way to the Cavs.
and they might trade Bosh too before the deadline since he won't be signing an extension and may opt out.
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they won't be able to re-sign Parker apparently because they got Turkoglu.
he might be on his way to the Cavs.
and they might trade Bosh too before the deadline since he won't be signing an extension and may opt out.
PG Jose Calderon
SG Hedo Turkoglu
SF DeMar DeRozan
PF Chris Bosh
C Andrea Bargnani
STILL a playoff team
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^^Yes Parker is gone and I firmly believe Bosh will be traded before the deadline because everybody knows he isn't resigning with them after the season.
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they won't be able to re-sign Parker apparently because they got Turkoglu.
he might be on his way to the Cavs.
and they might trade Bosh too before the deadline since he won't be signing an extension and may opt out.
PG Jose Calderon
SG Hedo Turkoglu
SF DeMar DeRozan
PF Chris Bosh
C Andrea Bargnani
STILL a playoff team
I agree with you regardless of whether or not Parker is there.
It's just the Bosh card that'll determine whether they can be a playoff team or not in my opinion.
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Because of the 4 team trade Raptors didn't have to renounce their rights to Parker, Delfino or Mensah-Bonsu plus they have the Mid-Level and Bi Annual Exemptions, so they could sign Parker still. That said I think he's going to Cleveland to try to win a Ring.
And I think Raptors will at least get to the playoffs if they spend their exemptions wisely, maybe get some Rebounding and Defense by signing Rasho, get some more toughness with a decent overall SF to back up Hedo like Kleiza and either a defensive specialist at the 2 or a backup point guard with the rest of the money. that's who and what I'd target if I was BC.
As for Bosh being traded I think Colangelo is trying to build a competitive team this year to convince bosh to stay in Toronto. From day 1 he's pegged bosh is the conerstone of this team and i don't think he's giving him up now. Although if the team sucks again this year bosh will be gone near the deadline.
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Because of the 4 team trade Raptors didn't have to renounce their rights to Parker, Delfino or Mensah-Bonsu plus they have the Mid-Level and Bi Annual Exemptions, so they could sign Parker still. That said I think he's going to Cleveland to try to win a Ring.
And I think Raptors will at least get to the playoffs if they spend their exemptions wisely, maybe get some Rebounding and Defense by signing Rasho, get some more toughness with a decent overall SF to back up Hedo like Kleiza and either a defensive specialist at the 2 or a backup point guard with the rest of the money. that's who and what I'd target if I was BC.
As for Bosh being traded I think Colangelo is trying to build a competitive team this year to convince bosh to stay in Toronto. From day 1 he's pegged bosh is the conerstone of this team and i don't think he's giving him up now. Although if the team sucks again this year bosh will be gone near the deadline.
Didn't know that about the rights. Maybe they'll sign Delfino then.
I think Parker and the Cavs are close on a deal, but you never know:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3171/news;_ylt=AhPdELkeS81x6Zgjkru9z0snPKB4
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Didn't know that about the rights. Maybe they'll sign Delfino then.
I think Parker and the Cavs are close on a deal, but you never know:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3171/news;_ylt=AhPdELkeS81x6Zgjkru9z0snPKB4
I think they probably sign Delfino but only if he doesn't mind being a backup, I think he'd be great anchoring the offense of the second unit. He's does the same things as Turk (good Distributor, Shoot) so having him start is redundant, Plus Delfino seems to need the ball in his hands to create offense. I hope they try Wright in the starting lineup just to bring some defense even though he doesn't have starting caliber talent.
I agree Parker to Cleveland seems like a done deal, but hell so did Turk to Portland
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Bosh will NOT be traded
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Bosh will NOT be traded
lol we will see about that
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Bosh will NOT be traded
lol we will see about that
he wont be traded. Yesterday in the Hedo press conference Hedo and Bryan Colangelo both said that Chris Bosh also called Hedo last week trying to recruit him and welcoming Hedo to the city of Toronto. It was also posted all over Chris' twitter page how happy he was to have Hedo here. Colangelo said yesterday they are putting all this together to try and get the main peice (Bosh) to stay.
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Dude is good.
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Bosh won't be traded, IF they make a good run this season, he'll stay. If not, he's out.
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Bosh will NOT be traded
lol we will see about that
you're saying that as if there's a high chance he'll be traded LOL