With his team's season rapidly falling apart, Bryan Colangelo has some difficult decisions ahead.
He is less than three years removed from his triumphant first season as Raptors' GM, handpicked by ownership to bring a new era of success to Toronto as he had done in Phoenix.
Colangelo won the 2005 NBA Executive of the Year award, and wasted no time in putting his stamp on the Raptors; his unorthodox approach to scouting and drafting led to Toronto fielding one of the most multi-national teams in the NBA.
After winning the Atlantic Division in 2007 Colangelo won his second Executive of the Year award. Given the team's poor performance with a roster that was expected to be very successful, with good NBA odds to make the playoffs, perhaps Colangelo should trade the player he is working to keep: Chris Bosh.
While trading the face of your franchise is generally considered to be a bad move, perhaps in this case is it the best move he could make.
While a more palatable option would be to trade recently acquired Jermaine O'Neal, he would be difficult to move given his history of injuries and poor performance of late.
There are no other players on the team that would allow Colangelo to demand young, talented players in return, the kind of players that the Raptors need in order to be successful, both now and in the future. If Bosh is liable to leave for nothing when his contract expires in the 2010 off-season, perhaps Colangelo should let another GM worry about re-signing him.
Of all the bold personnel decisions he has made throughout his career, this would definitely be the biggest one were he to go through with it – and you’d have to think there would be big basketball odds against - but Colangelo's history shows that the Raptors would be better off for it.
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