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00:00But hey, Brandon Ingram ended up getting paid yesterday.
00:03I mean, the Raptors future is pretty bright here.
00:05Scotty Barnes and Ingram and some others.
00:07And I know he's not playing right now,
00:09but this move was made not just maybe for the end of the season,
00:12but also for the future.
00:13It seems to me that the Raptors feel like they're in win-now mode in the East.
00:19Absolutely, win-now or at least win pretty soon.
00:22You look at it like that,
00:23and I think it's really good business to trade for a player
00:26that you would not have been able to sign outright this offseason.
00:29Get a fair deal.
00:30Three years, $120 million is a lot of money.
00:33But in the grand scheme of things,
00:34the way the salary cap shakes out,
00:36I think it's a very fair deal for a guy like Brandon Ingram,
00:38who, like you said, fits in next to Scotty Barnes and Emmanuel Quickly and RJ Barrett.
00:43So the Raptors are struggling this season.
00:45Brandon Ingram is still working his way back from injury.
00:47But once he gets healthy,
00:49there's no questions about his immediate or distant future in Toronto,
00:52and they can start building around that core that they have.
00:54And I think that in the Eastern Conference,
00:56they have a very bright future.