Jonas Valančiūnas
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Oct 30, 2026
Allen StilesHOST
I was working.
Allen StilesHOST
Toronto also didn't give rings to Jonas Valanciunas, who played 30 games, DeLon Wright, who played 49, or CJ Myles, who were traded that season.
Allen StilesHOST
Theo Pinson says, Toronto Raptors do the right thing.
Allen StilesHOST
Send him his ring.
Frankie SaxHOST
I don't think Diarra is in that club.
Frankie SaxHOST
First of all, I don't think anybody right now besides Valanciunas and Lasur right now may be coming together.
Frankie SaxHOST
But how many guys are in that club that you can say they're starting centers and they're going to give you – They're going to knock it out of the park every time.
Frankie SaxHOST
It's just so risky for me.
John VoitaHOST
He can stretch the floor a little bit if you need him to.
John VoitaHOST
Jonas Valanciunas would be great.
John VoitaHOST
as well.
Matthew LissyHOST
Dwight Powell is the only one that makes sense.
JasonHOST
Then they traded him to the Wizards, I believe.
JasonHOST
Was that the Jonas Valanciunas trade, I want to say? Which Citi Sissoko was a guy who I was excited at the time for the Kings to get a young, athletic, versatile wing.
JasonHOST
And now here he is killing the Kings.
JasonHOST
He had 15 points, 5 for 8 from the field, 7 rebounds, was flying around the court, 4 offensive rebounds.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
Getting mad at Mike Malone for wanting to play veterans.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
Again, if you look at what the Denver Nuggets could have had last year if they brought in Jonas Valanciunas, they brought in Tim Hardaway Jr., Russell Westbrook was still there.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
The team would be fine.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
They just need a backup point guard.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
Now, is Bagley a bad option off the bench? Absolutely not.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
But I also don't think it answered any real questions.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
Do I think he's better than Jonas Valanciunas on the offensive end? A little bit more athletic? Yeah, sure.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
But again, you're asking a 6'9 guy to compete with backup centers who are... 7'2 in Luke Cornett, 7'3 in Ademara, and not only do they have Ademara out there, they have Jalen Williams as well, and you can't play Spencer Jones as the backup four.
Will LouHOST
Danny Green, Kawhi has already been counted, Serge Ibaka, Marc Gasol, we had Jeremy Lin, we had Eric Moreland, we have Jordan Lloyd, we had Uh, who else was on that team, man? You know what I mean? Uh, Meeks, um, Jody Meeks, Malcolm Miller.
Will LouHOST
Uh, we had, who else was on the championship Raptors team? Um, that's pretty much enough of them, isn't it? Like, it feels like, oh yeah, Jonas Valanciunas was on the team that season.
Will LouHOST
DeLon Wright was on the team that season.
Will LouHOST
Um, going back to 2014, my favorite Raptors team, we had Rudy Gay, who was there with Aaron Gray, who was traded with, uh, um sol solomon no who is it quincy ac quincy ac yeah so uh they were traded for rudy gay um they were traded for gravis vasquez no we're doing it was already counted so gravis vasquez uh lou williams um Who else was in that thing? Oh, yeah, Lou Williams was joining the team the next following year.
Ryan BlackburnHOST
thing that he does, and he's going to do this every single time.
Ryan BlackburnHOST
It doesn't matter that it's Marvin Bagley or Jonas Valanciunas or Zeke Nagy or DeMarcus Cousins or whoever it's been.
Ryan BlackburnHOST
It is always going to be, hey, Joker's going to play the vast majority of the first and third quarter, and we will see how long we can last in the second and fourth.
Ryan BlackburnHOST
And in the fourth quarter especially, they were not good.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
This can't be a continuation of playing a smaller big.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
We saw this last year with Jonas Valanciunas, who's a bigger guy, but Denver goes out there with no seven-footers, and it just makes everything so much harder for this Denver Nuggets team when you're going against a bigger team.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
The Oklahoma City Thunder are already big to start off with.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
You obviously have Chet and Hartenstein in that starting five.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
So I think that Denver, at some point, has to...
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
And again, it's so early to say this, has to test out the market for a potential big who's athletic enough to play alongside Trevon Brazil and Marvin Bagley.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
Because the last thing you want to see is a center who comes in as just a disappointment like Jonas Valanciunas was for Denver this past year.
Thomas LeuthnerHOST
And then the last thing I want to briefly touch on, like I said, it is almost a little over one in the morning at the time of this recording now.
FabHOST
Back in 2019, when the Raptors
HamboneHOST
won their title, they made a mid-season move trading Jonas Valanciunas for Marc Gasol.
HamboneHOST
Something like that can happen, but I think the proof is going to be in the pudding.
HamboneHOST
How does the team perform up until the trade deadline? If you feel like RJ's...
StewieHOST
Yeah, clogs the key way up for Jokic and Gordon a little bit.
StewieHOST
It's not been a great off-season for them at all when you consider they lost Jonas Valanciunas and Tim Hardaway Jr. as well.
StewieHOST
They've only really picked up Marvin Bagley III, who...
StewieHOST
Oh, he's handy.
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