HOW ANDREA BARGNANI'S TRADE LED TO A TORONTO RAPTORS CHAMPIONSHIP

There were a lot of dominos that fell in place leading up to the Toronto Raptors championship in 2019, but it all started with James Dolan's distrust of Masai Ujiri, and Ujiri's masterful Andrea Bargnani trade.

[@feelsgoodman420]

it all started with primo pasta

[@dariusfadavi7188]

No one man should have all that pasta.

[@jjjiljjjj]

Only the real ones know about the Primo Pasta streams

[@TherealMRMGB]

And sauce!!! 😂🍝

[@judekabongo1995]

😂😂

[@ericratynski]

Imagine. Greivis Vasquez gets you Norm Powell and OG. That’s probably the most insane flip in this story

[@steveciancone8941]

Masai starting every rebuild with a Knicks trade 😂

[@Justfrank_0]

😂😂😂 hilarious

[@GoLeafszGo]

quickley and Barett, lets go

[@beaner946ify]

Fun story about the Bargnani trade. I went to Olympia Sports Camp in Ontario, Canada (specifically the basketball camp). The camp is really well known in Canadian basketball and a lot of future Canadian NBA players actually went there as kids (I am definitely not one of those, I love basketball but rec league is more my speed now in my early 20's). They would always bring in guest coaches who were usually either current NBA players, coaches, former players, etc. One of those dudes they brought in was Walker D. Russell, a former NBA player who had a rather short career but at the time I was there he was actually a scout with the Knicks. I remember the Bargnani trade had just happened the other day and he started saying something along the lines of, "Bargnani has a lot of untapped potential and I think y'all weren't utilizing him enough in Toronto, and he will turn his game up a lot in New York." I wasn't back the next summer and sure enough, Walker was back again to coach during my week there. After putting us through some drills, scrimmages and of course a bunch of suicides, we entered a Q and A section. After a bunch of questions about his time in the league and advice for young players, someone asked what he thought of the Bargnani trade a year later. My man straight up said, "Listen, I was wrong." he continued on to say that it was going to be a longer process obviously since he is a scout with the team and all but I just though it was funny to hear that stark contrast in opinion.

[@ajpdeschenes]

2019... what a year!

[@Justfrank_0]

Life was good man

[@diolukegil712]

I agree

[@johnceliz9061]

And Masai is up to it again by getting RJ and IQ from the Knicks

[@BowenChen-sh3sz]

but this time it's different Knicks are contenders with OG

[@Entername-md1ev]

Masai is a GM genius: - Traded Bargnani for a first round pick - Traded Gay for all those pieces who became good role players - Traded Vasquez for Powell and OG - Drafted Siakam 28th overall in the draft - Signed FVV after he went undrafted - Traded T Ross for Serge Ibaka - Traded Derozan and Poetl (the pick from the Barg trade) for Kawhi and Danny Green - Traded JV and scraps for Marc Gasol This is how a truly great GM builds a winner. No tanking, no superstar FA signings, just one GM swindling other GMs while also making smart signings

[@Kevin-gf6eu]

I was sad that day to give up on Bargnani but at the end it was a good trade and paid off 💯

[@jkmorbo]

Those primo pasta days were dark days.

[@James-wp3zc]

You can add Hedo Turkoglo "Ball" to the mix.

[@Quanziam]

That Vasquez trade is underrated.

[@Crooklynn]

still got my bargnani jersey

[@camnewton5550]

2010-2011 raps season was dark times 😂

[@skatedurr]

once bron left for the west we won, hmmmmmmmm

[@Quanziam]

Dolan fleeced himself with the veto.

[@teeceeemeeee]

Yeah, the first round pick acquired from the Knicks became Jakob Poeltl that was a part of the Kawhi trade. But that trade doesn't happen without Zaza Pachulia placing his foot under Kawhi's shot in the playoffs vs Golden State which started Kawhi and his distrust with SA in regards to dealing with his injuries and prompting them to trade Kawhi.

[@jigante41]

great point! Kawhi got his revenge on the Warriors on 2019

[@abcraptor23]

We need a full 30 For 30 of the road to the championship, two hours at least, four part will be better, to hear all the involved on each time, we need the documentary

[@spanishsupafly]

Did Ujiri not also flip Terrence Ross for Serge Ibaka? I didn't see that move mentioned here, I always thought it was him who pulled it off.

[@danielduncan6370]

Should do more videos like this. It’s was cool. Do other teams

[@HKashaf]

It would been nice if you included all the trades that led to championship specially Gasol for Valanciunus

[@jacobjohnston9925]

And Terrence Ross for Ibaka

[@stoddard1953]

The Bargnani trade alone was a massive win. The rest was icing on the cake.

[@leonardmaher8155]

I feel the Rudy Gay trade to Sacramento was the beginning to many good years to Toronto sure the Bargnani trade to the Knicks too but I just feel the trade with the Kings was more significant

[@2011thetemp]

With an assist from Dolan🤣😆

[@BowenChen-sh3sz]

Oh man this hurts as a Knicks fan lol

[@aaron-604]

still living 2019 dream?

[@jonah.donohue]

😂😂😂

[@WORLDPEACExoxo]

Once on a life time experience for us Canadians

[@dangdin554]

Andrea bargnani was our main star for a while… what a sad time 😂

[@teebles]

Thanks Dolan for blocking that Lowry (GROAT) trade.

[@canucklehead70]

It was about that fans

[@joshgc1]

Whenever someone has any Masai slander, show them this video. Bunch of clowns we have as fans sometimes.

[@adamally1223]

Forgot the ibaka trade

[@thedevilskind]

Nah, it was LeBron going to the Lakers and the injury to Durant

[@Chrisinlgy]

James Dolan: I ain't never getting fleeced again by Ujiri!!! RJ and IQ for OG's expiring contract.. who ended up sitting with injury for most of the season, who would have signed with Knicks anyway in FA🤣

[@Amer_Killa]

Love how the knicks president got fleeced by us THREE TIMES

[@pileshmuzma9406]

It should astound everyone who watches this that an actual tv channel with a budget could release a video of such poor quality. how do you even get the audio and picture quality this bad?

[@The_Zilli]

Honestly, it started with Bruno....

[@MatthiaGryffine]

And 5 years later. The Raptors are at rock bottom. I'm still waiting for Secret Base to do a Collapse video.

[@Dennyg289]

Temporary rock bottom. If Scottie, and Yak not break their hands they would've competed more than people think(as well as RJ and IQ's family losing someone important.) The bench was trash but now its starting to turn around.

[@stoddard1953]

What's your point? They won a championship.

[@MatthiaGryffine]

@@stoddard1953 So did many of the other teams featured in that series of videos. That's my point.

[@itsprimetime9865]

Rock bottom? Detroit pistons and the Trail blazers and rock bottom Raps are struggling and will be top 6 this up coming season

[@WORLDPEACExoxo]

​@MatthiaGryffine you keep taking for granted that raptors won canada it's first major league championship since 93' Habs. The nation needed that

[@JimMacintosh]

Getting rid of that overrated Italian was one of the best things that the Raptors organization ever did.

[@UCXnzA]

PRIMO PASTA AND SAUCE

[@therebellioussheep2368]

I will never be able to fathom why the Knicks gave all of that up just for Andrea Bargnani, who was arguably one of the biggest busts of all time. It's almost as if Ujiri had explicit pics of Dolan and blackmailed him into making that lopsided trade.

[@kozykev]

PRIMO PASTA & SAUCE!

[@irvingzeistman9828]

ILL mago

[@randomname9758]

What a terrible pick he was.

[@flightjam]

Come on. The title simply came from a severely injured warriors team

[@barryallen6775]

If the Raps lost to an injured Warriors then you would say they suck and couldn’t closed Regardless you’re going to complain about anything so I rather have a chip at the end of it.

[@flightjam]

@@barryallen6775 I would just think the warriors were just that good. But I'm happy for Raps don't get me wrong. I just feel there is that what if situation that makes me believe it's hard to see them win against a full strength warriors.

[@Justfrank_0]

@@flightjam we can play the IF game all day bud

[@flightjam]

@@Justfrank_0 not really. If they were healthy it's a done deal. Simple

[@Justfrank_0]

@@flightjam I don’t think it would be as easy as you’re trying to make it seem, only person missing was KD(majority of the series) & I’d like to believe that series would be super close

[@samuelrigaud6595]

Lowry can't be the greatest raptor over Chris Bosh

[@Cheema0113]

or vince carter, or demar.

[@001spring]

He's the best Raptor of all time over Bosh, Derozan, Carter.

[@samuelrigaud6595]

@@001spring impossible

[@MatthiaGryffine]

Who won the title?

[@samuelrigaud6595]

@MatthiaGryffine Bill Russell has 11 championship, but you'd still choose Jordan with 6. Nice try

[@ScotchOnyx]

Lowry greatest Raptors of all time? NA not even close. VC and CB4 ahead.

[@Justfrank_0]

“Not even close” is crazy

[@clinically_insane]

YALL REACHING BREV