Hanifan's Offseason Outlook: Evaluating the Toronto Raptors' 2025 offseason

For our second annual offseason outlook series, Hot Hot Hoops senior writer Matt Hanifan will provide his take on the offseasons of all 30 teams for the next 30 days! We will proceed in alphabetical order, starting with the Eastern Conference. Today, we will be evaluating the Toronto Raptors’ offseason.

Past Previews:

Sept. 1: Atlanta Hawks
Sept. 2: Boston Ce l tics
Sept. 3: Brooklyn Nets
Sept. 4: Charlotte Hornets
Sept. 5: Chicago Bulls
Sept. 6: Cleveland Cavaliers
Sept. 7: Detroit Pistons
Sept. 8: Indiana Pacers
Sept. 9: Milwaukee Bucks
Sept. 10: New York Knicks
Sept. 11: Orlando Magic
Sept. 12: Philadelphia 76ers

Evaluating the Toronto Raptors’ 2025 offseason:

Additions: Sandro Mamukelashvili, David Roddy, Olivier Sarr

Subtractions: Chris Boucher, Colin Castleton, Jared Rhoden

Re-signed: Jakob Poeltl, Garrett Temple

Draft: Collin Murray-Boyles (No. 9 overall), Alijah Martin (No. 39)

Hanifan’s outlook: The Raptors’ biggest change this offseason was firing team president Masai Ujiri less than 24 hours after the conclusion of the 2025 NBA Draft. Weird timing, eh?!

While I have not been a fan of multiple moves that Ujiri has made each of the last several seasons, his relationship with Rogers/MSLE has appeared to be tenuous for most of the decade. They stayed in-house with elevating and extending general manager Bobby Webster.

The roster Ujiri and Co. have built also makes little-to-no sense.

After acquiring Brandon Ingram at the deadline, they are allocating $156.5 million to Scottie Barnes, Ingram, Immanuel Quickley, R.J. Barrett and Jakob Poeltl. That’s a lot of money for an uninspiring core — all due respect to Barnes and Quickley, two very good young players in their own right.

Toronto’s cap sheet is a mess. I was also much lower on Murray-Boyles than the consensus; while he was super disruptive defensively, the top-10 pick is an undersized big who can’t shoot and is limited athletically.

I think Darko Rajakovic has done an objectively good job coaching his team up. Toronto was one of the league’s most feisty defenses post-All-Star break. Ingram will help if he can stay healthy. But I still think they’re fighting for a top-8 seed, at best.