Another Trade......bye bye Carlos Delfino

It's been a boring few weeks in the basketball world, but it seems like the NBA GMs are still working their ass's off. Just when we thought Bryan Colangelo was done making all of his moves he pulls this one off. This is probably the first time you may learn of this but the Raptors have worked out a trade with the Milwaukee Bucks in which they will recieve PF/C-Amir Johnson, and SG/SF-Sunny Weems. In turn the Raptors would sign and trade Carlos Delfino and package him with the now expendable pointguard Roko Ukic. Both contracts the Raptors recieve will be up by the end of this season giving the Raps some extra cash for next years free agency period. As I mentioned earlier the Raps had to signed Carlos Delfino to a deal reported to be worth around 6.9M over 2 years ($3.45M per year) to make this deal work. I think the most interesting part of this deal however is that the roster is now full, and there is some speculation that fan-favorite Pops Mensah-Bonsu is headed to Houston now. With all that being said, I really like this deal because we got somebody who brings the same energy as Pops and a guard-forward that makes are team that much more athletic. Last season Pops averaged 5.1PPG, 5.4RPG and 0.2BPG in 14 minutes for the Raptors. Amir Johnson has recorded similar stats by averaging 5.9PPG, 4.6RPG, and 1.6BPG in 15.5 minutes for Detroit. He also shoots a cool .595% from the field compared to Pops Mensah-Bonsu's .354% from the field. I don't think we can say anyone can bring the same hustle as Pops but Amir Johnson is in my opinion as close as you can get and maybe even better given the fact that he averages 8 times the amount of blocks Pops does and he shoots tremendously better in the paint. Amir is 6'10" so he can possibly guard centres if necessary. Overall I feel like if you couldn't bring Pops back this is a great deal. And if you don't like it, at least the team will get an extra 5 mil. next year in free agency! Now, as for Sunny Weems, he hasn't done much of anything in his career or than drive and dunk.....which is good because he wont play many minutes. And with his athleticism you can expect him to be a decent defender at the least. The roster is full now.....so that was the last of the moves, and I think the big thing is we just got so much better defensively. We have enough scorers in the first and second line-up to take care of the offense we lost with Roko and potentially Delfino. Thanks for reading!