Raptors forward Pascal Siakam underwent successful surgery on his left shoulder in Los Angeles last week to repair a torn labrum, the team announced today in a press release.
According to the Raptors, Siakam sustained the injury during the club’s May 8 game vs. Memphis. Toronto estimates the forward will require approximately five months for recovery and rehabilitation, meaning he likely won’t be available to start the 2021/22 regular season, which begins on October 19.
It’s unclear why it took about a month after Siakam suffered the injury for him to go under the knife. Blake Murphy of The Athletic speculates (via Twitter) that the Raptors and their standout forward tried to go a non-surgical route before deciding that the procedure was necessary.
After earning his first All-Star nod in 2020, Siakam took a slight step back during the last year, struggling last summer in the bubble and then seeing some of his numbers dip during the 2020/21 season. He still averaged 21.4 points, 7.2 rebounds, and 4.5 assists per game in 56 contests (35.8 MPG), but his three-point mark declined to just 29.7%, well below his rate in the previous two seasons.
Siakam, one of the Raptors’ cornerstones, remains under contract with Toronto through the 2023/24 season. He’ll earn just over $33MM in ’21/22.
I’d let Ujiri walk for nothing and rebuild with top draft picks
And
Sign and trade Lowry for picks
Trade Siakam to Wolves for 2024 unprotected first round pick, Beasley and Rubio
Wolves managers would get fired if they can’t make playoffs
Wolves unprotected Firsts give away —
2022 and 2024
He’s so overrated.
Other than DL, no one is better than Siakam on Trailblazers roster.
Siakam is good but he will never be as good as he thinks he is.
Trade him
What about CJ McCollum and Jusif Nurkic for Siakam and picks? Dame gets a big while Toronto gets a proven scorer and a quality starting big man?
Portland should be the one attaching a 1st Rd pick in such a deal as CJ ain’t no spring chicken and Nurkic is too injury prone.
Siakam ain’t spring chicken neither, right?
At 27 he is well into his prime.
I must say though, I think he was slightly better this season than the last, points slightly down & trey’s fell off a cliff… but, assists rocketed, FG% slightly better, FT% massive improvement & turnovers down… overall I think he was slightly better, regardless what anyone says.
Optics didn’t look good with him, I was all year saying how bad he was… but once I looked through his stats, he was better than the last year.
Anybody
Oubre sign and trade? Gotta give Oubrick $100m tho
Not even worth 60M Marty. Nobody is doing that and you know it. He’s not that GREAT of a shooter and an adequate defender at best. Not really a playmaker either. He’s more the left handed Trevor Ariza. You don’t pay guys like Oubre $100M.
I can totally see someone giving him $100M. I would never use the words “you dont pay guys like Oubre $100M” too, firstly neither of us are paying anyone, you write as if this is us literally paying the players, which is, no, second, there’s always owners out there with money to use on someone, and its plenty feasible he runs into a right place/time situation somewhere.
He’s just interesting enough to warrant being a starter, and I have no problem seeing NBA starters entering their 7th season making $100M. He also has breakout potential if he can gain consistency with his scoring. He was infuriating due to his inconsistency shooting and overall low offensive IQ last season, no doubt, but he’s going to be 26 next year and is at the point to where he could refine his game. It’s honestly not hard to see him getting the 100M. He most likely will get $60-80 though, but I wouldn’t count out $100.
If he gets $100M then Lavine should get $200M based on his play alone last year. I agree I see $60-80M will be where he settles at. And when I said “you don’t pay guys like Oubre ” I didn’t literally mean you.l or myself. Lol I meant the NBA community as a whole.
I think he’s trying to promote Oubre now, to get rid of him. Been cursing him all year.
Marty knows that the Warriors, with their record-breaking gargantuan payroll, have only one possible way of acquiring a quality veteran in free agency (without trading away one of their top players). That is of course a sign and trade with Oubre. Unfortunately for Marty and the Warriors, he won’t fetch much. Maybe something along the lines of an Oladipo, if they’re lucky.
Oubre is going to Miami for Oladipo in a dual sign and trade.
Nothing close to $100M though, maybe $15M for one year.
No one is paying Oubre more than what Trevor Ariza makes.