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Josh Lewenberg: Barrett on new 🇨🇦 🏀 training facility: “This is going to be such a great thing because, I don’t know if anybody’s noticing, but Canadian basketball is starting to become really serious.” Fun fact: this court on Humber North campus is where he played his 1st ever game for Canada
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The Kings nearly traded Domantas Sabonis to the Toronto Raptors at the deadline in February -- a move he would've welcomed, a source with knowledge of the situation said -- for a package that included RJ Barrett, but the Raptors were unable to get off the three-year, $84 million remaining on Jakob Poeltl's contract, which doomed the deal.
Poeltl has also most commonly been packaged with his teammate RJ Barrett in outgoing deals, as Toronto fans have used their combined 2026-27 salary of $49.1 million to go star-hunting in our trade machine. Overall, 84.4 percent of theoretical Poeltl trades in our trade machine have included Barrett.
Josh Lewenberg: RJ Barrett, Zach Edey, Dwight Powell and Kelly Olynyk are here watching Canada-Puerto Rico. For various reasons (injury/contractual, mostly), they're not playing this summer but maintain spots in the country's player pool. Expected to be in the mix for the World Cup next summer.
However, because the Raptors used the salaries of Ingram and Dick to bring back more salary than they traded away in the form of Leonard, the Raptors are “hard-capped” at the first apron, which is set at a smidge beyond $209 million, this season. As of now, Leonard isn’t in a position to accept his trade kicker because Immanuel Quickley, RJ Barrett and Poeltl have $6.5 million worth of incentives that count toward the hard cap, even if they are not ultimately reached, per The Athletic’s John Hollinger.
Keerthika Uthayakumar: High scoring average in a single postseason in Raptors history: Kawhi Leonard - 30.5 in 2019 Vince Carter - 27.3 in 2001 RJ Barrett - 24.1 this year Scottie Barnes - 24.1 this year Chris Bosh - 24.0 in 2008
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Dialogue between the teams continued Sunday, league sources say, with the Clippers naturally trying to extract more than has been offered if they indeed are parting with their Face of the Franchise, while the Raptors remain adamant about trying to build a deal — which also would naturally include a level of draft capital — around scoring forward Brandon Ingram and Gradey Dick rather than Canadian-born swingman RJ Barrett.
Jake Fischer: In discussions with the Clippers, sources say Toronto has expressed a preference in dealing Brandon Ingram to Los Angeles, as opposed to RJ Barrett.
Toronto Raptors swingman RJ Barrett has drawn trade interest in multi-team conversations, league sources told HoopsHype. The Canadian swingman is on an expiring $29.62 million contract this upcoming season. He’s averaged 20.5 points on 49.5 percent shooting from the field and 35.3 percent beyond the arc with 5.9 rebounds and 4.3 assists since joining his hometown Raptors.
