What would you be willing to give up for an elite defender?

No to both because they're both injury prone-ish. We don't want another player missing whole seasons like MPJ or Murray. OG's value is super inflated rn. With the way MPJ is improving on defense, I'd do a 1-1 swap but the Raptors will, of course, ask for a boatload of picks and other assets. Imo, if MPJ is healthy, they're about the same value.

MPJ is probably more valuable to the Raptors than OG is to us. They lack shooting. If we want a line up with a defensive SF, we can put Brown, Braun, Zeke or Vlatko in the line up. They're not as good as OG obviously but they'll be enough.

We don't need to get a superstar defensive player. We need a role player SF defensive player like Herb Jones or Dyson Daniels.

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