Otto Porter Jr

Due to foot and back injuries, he'd played 28 games in the 2020-21 season, and only half that number in the previous one. If you have already forgotten that he ...

If they need to go small, but not too small, they'll need to play someone other than Porter at the 4 spot. If guys like that were easy to find, though, then the Warriors would have a long list of similar success stories. Could Juancho Hernangomez, fresh off his star turn in "Hustle," play the Porter role? He played in 63 regular-season games, traded almost all of his long 2s for 3s and won a championship, starting the last three games of the NBA Finals. Porter gave the Warriors some defensive versatility and some shooting in the frontcourt. If they don't make any trades at all, though, they've already put together a solid offseason -- before the Porter deal, they brought back Chris Boucher on a reported three-year, $35.3 million deal and Thaddeus Young on a reported two-year, $16 million deal. Due to foot and back injuries, he'd played 28 games in the 2020-21 season, and only half that number in the previous one. Beyond that, with the front office apparently constrained by the repeater tax, free agency will be about looking for the next Porter and the next Payton: high-level role players who are willing to sign for the minimum. For the Raptors, Porter is an ideal addition. Porter will provide spacing on the second unit and can slide into the starting lineup when Toronto is shorthanded. The salary has yet to be reported, but, according to Sportsnet's Michael Grange, Toronto will use some of its $10.5 million non-taxpayer midlevel exception. It was a minimum contract, and it was the best decision he could have possibly made. Every executive in the NBA knew what he could do when healthy, but nobody could count on him being healthy.