{"id":481062,"date":"2026-01-27T15:29:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=481062"},"modified":"2026-01-27T15:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:29:21","slug":"tortono-raptors-likely-deadline-path-duck-the-luxury-tax-while-adding-center-depth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/tortono-raptors-likely-deadline-path-duck-the-luxury-tax-while-adding-center-depth\/","title":{"rendered":"Tortono Raptors\u2019 likely deadline path: duck the luxury tax while adding center depth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"5011\" data-end=\"5211\">According to the report, the <strong data-start=\"5040\" data-end=\"5059\">Toronto Raptors<\/strong>\u2019 most likely deadline direction is moving below the <strong data-start=\"5112\" data-end=\"5126\">luxury tax<\/strong>.<br data-start=\"5127\" data-end=\"5130\" \/>The focus would be payroll trimming while keeping flexibility for the next steps.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"5213\" data-end=\"5389\">In parallel, Toronto is said to be looking to add center depth to the roster.<br data-start=\"5290\" data-end=\"5293\" \/>Names mentioned as options include <strong data-start=\"5328\" data-end=\"5346\">Daniel Gafford<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"5348\" data-end=\"5364\">Goga Bitadze<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"5370\" data-end=\"5388\">Day\u2019Ron Sharpe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"5391\" data-end=\"5551\">The picture painted is of a team browsing the market rather than forcing a splashy move.<br data-start=\"5479\" data-end=\"5482\" \/>A quiet deadline is possible, but Toronto is clearly window shopping.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"5553\" data-end=\"5613\">\n<p data-start=\"4702\" data-end=\"4762\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hoopswire.com\/nba-rumors-lakers-jonathan-kuminga-pistons-jaden-ivey-raptors\/#google_vignette\"><em data-start=\"4702\" data-end=\"4707\">TSN<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report: Toronto\u2019s most probable route is trimming payroll below the tax line<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[135],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-481062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-rumors-nba","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Toronto-Raptors.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481062"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=481062"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=481062"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=481062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}