Trade: Raptors Swap Siakam for Pacers' Brown, 3 First Round Picks

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:03 And I'll start with this NBA trade.

00:04 Raptors get, or Raptors send, excuse me,

00:07 Pascal Siakam to Indiana.

00:09 Bruce Brown in three first round picks,

00:12 two in 24, one in 25, go back to Toronto.

00:16 So this has been a complete now,

00:18 kind of tear down, I guess you could say.

00:20 Maybe not tear down completely,

00:21 but the Raptors changing things up, making some moves.

00:24 You had a few weeks ago with OG going to the Knicks.

00:27 They get RJ Barrett and quickly going back that way.

00:31 Now they send Siakam out to Indiana.

00:33 Big move for the Pacers.

00:35 They have clearly taken a little bit of a jump here

00:37 this year in the East with Halliburton.

00:40 He's injured out now and out,

00:41 but adding Siakam to Halliburton

00:44 makes the Pacers a little bit more dangerous.

00:46 They are not on the level yet of the Celtics and the Bucs,

00:50 and even the Sixers, these other teams in the East.

00:52 Now they've had some wins against those teams this year,

00:55 especially the Bucs who they've gone back and forth with,

00:57 but we'll see if this can get them a little bit closer

01:01 to that level into the top four or five in the East.

01:04 I saw they went from 80 to one to 65 to one

01:08 to win the NBA championship.

01:10 Still very far out there as we know.

01:13 And the other key point about this is

01:16 they got to sign Siakam now.

01:19 That's a lot of capital that you gave up to get him.

01:22 Three first rounders is a very big haul.

01:26 You know, you're getting Brown going the other way.

01:27 Brown's funny.

01:28 He signed that two-year deal with them in the off season

01:30 coming from Denver, winning the championship,

01:33 and it was a straight money play for Brown.

01:35 You go back and listen to him from when he signed that deal.

01:37 It was like, "They offered me two years, 45 million.

01:40 Just tell him, 'Yes, take it. I'm on my way.'"

01:42 So I don't know if he necessarily cares,

01:45 whether he's in Indiana, in Toronto, Sacrad Tomato, Denver.

01:49 Bruce Brown got his bag

01:50 after winning his championship last year.

01:52 I could see the Raptors maybe flipping him too

01:57 as we get closer to this deadline

01:58 and see if something can deal there.

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