NBA FREE AGENCY: Raptors exercise Bruce Brown’s $23 million team option

Does this preclude a trade involving Toronto’s best trade asset? Or is Brown’s tryout with the Raptors’ core in need of a longer look?

This is not what we’re supposed to discuss on Day 1 of free agency.

If you were to rank the NBA-related transactions by how excited fans get, it would look like this:

1. Trade
2. Free Agent signing
3. Waived (I see you, Golden State)
4. Player Option
5. Team Option

The first day of free agency ...