Webster: Raptors have been working to trade into this year’s NBA draft
TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors have been busy trying to trade their way into this year’s NBA draft.
Toronto has no pick in Thursday’s draft at Barclays Center in New York, and while GM Bobby Webster remained mum on the Raptors plans on the eve of the big night, he did say trading into the draft isn’t so simple.
“It’s always tough,” Webster said Wednesday. “We always say you fall in love with your picks at this time of year so it’s hard to get rid of them. We’ve been in the opposite situation where we’ve had a lot of picks and we haven’t moved them so we’re constantly trying to get in, we’re probing and asking the right questions as far as what it would take to get in, and that’s just part of our daily due diligence.”
A report earlier this week claimed Toronto was looking to trade into the draft to nab Canadian and Kentucky guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander.