JULY 12: The Raptors have officially signed Schröder, the team confirmed today in a press release.
“Dennis is fierce, he’s creative, and above all, he’s competitive,” Raptors president Masai Ujiri said in a statement. “We’re excited to welcome Dennis to Toronto, and are looking forward to seeing him on the Scotiabank Arena court.”
JUNE 30: After losing Fred VanVleet to Houston, the Raptors have moved quickly to add a point guard in free agency. Toronto has agreed to sign Dennis Schröder to a two-year, $26MM contract, agent Mark Bartelstein tells ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski (Twitter link).
The terms suggest that the Raptors will be signing Schröder using their full non-taxpayer mid-level exception, which would be worth about $25.4MM over two years. The deal is fully guaranteed, per Michael Grange of Sportsnet.ca (Twitter link).
As Yossi Gozlan of HoopsHype tweets, the Raptors are about $10MM below the luxury tax line after the signing, with 14 players on standard deals. Toronto could choose to waive Thaddeus Young‘s partially guaranteed contract (it’s only guaranteed for $1MM but has a total value of $8MM — the guarantee deadline is today) to create more flexibility, but they’ll still have the bi-annual exception to work with, Gozlan notes.
Schröder brings plenty of experience to table, having just completed his 10th NBA season. The veteran guard is still only 29 years old, however, and won’t turn 30 until September.
The 17th pick of the 2013 draft out of Germany, Schröder spent his first five seasons with the Hawks. He’s bounced around quite a bit since then, playing for the Thunder, Lakers (twice), Celtics and Rockets over the past five seasons.
While Schröder isn’t a great outside shooter (33.7% from three career), he’s solid from mid-range, has a nice teardrop floater, can draw fouls, and is a good pick-and-roll ball-handler. He also played excellent on-ball defense with the Lakers in 2022/23, playing an important role during the club’s run to the Western Conference Finals.
Still one of the quickest players in the league, Schröder averaged 12.6 PPG, 4.5 APG and 2.5 RPG on .415/.329/.857 shooting in 66 games (30.1 MPG). Those numbers don’t tell the whole story, as the Lakers were much better when he was on the court in both the regular season and the postseason.
Schröder was playing on a minimum-salary deal last season, so he got a nice raise for his solid second stint with Los Angeles.
Was hoping the Lakers could bring him back
Really? He’s a bum
Look at his numbers and get back to us
12.5 ppg 4.5 assist shoots 30% from 3
Yea thanks for confirming he’s a bum
He’s not perfect but if he was he wouldn’t be a backup. That’s the salient point. You don’t expect perfection from a backup. You look for skill sets that can be useful in brief amounts of time and occasional above average performance like in game 1 vs GSW and he scored 19 of the bench. You don’t get perfection from backups. You ask for predictability and occasional exceptionalism
He shot 33
I dont see the fit here. Could have used that money better, in my opinion
They have no viable PG. That’s the fit.
No Viable PG?
Barnes? They actually wanted FVV to mentor him in the role
Siakam can run the point as well (depending on the new coach)
Dowtin showed promise and will probably get time on the 2nd unit (and likely be productive)
Schroeder will end up running the 2nd unit. He’ll lose his starting spot pretty quickly
Go back to baseball, cripes.
Barnes and siakim playing PG? Lol You are smoking to much
How don’t you see the fit? Raptors had no PG, Dennis is a PG…
I think this is a great move for the Raptors. He can drive better than Van Fleet!!
D could end up being the 1st guy to win Most Improved Player after graduating from the bench to a starting role for the 3rd time in his career
I would love to see it
Boucher, Young, Flynn and picks for something
A used tissue?
Dennis Schroder going to the Toronto Raptors is a great signing!!! 2 years $26 million!!! He’s definitely worth it. The Toronto Raptors defense is going to be great. Everybody over there playing defense.
He’s not the player Fred VanVleet is but Dennis Schroder is extremely solid.
Lakers don’t need him anymore. And Schroeder got a good deal with the Raptors. It’ll be a great for him as he need those bag anyway. Business as it is.
Waiving Thaddeus Young was smart. Before Dennis Schroder signed back with the Los Angeles Lakers last year the Toronto Raptors was trying to get him. Now a year later he can be their starter.
link to stathead.com
Not much Diference compared to what each one is getting.
Denis getting less than a third of the Fred contract a year is good for Toronto. He’s a good stopgap
Monte Morris might have been the better/cheaper choice.
Is this the same guy who said Back up the Brinx Truck a few years ago?
He definitely didn’t say back it up lol.
The fact that masai still believes he can win a championship with siakim as a 1st option yells nepotism.
Dennis will surely be missed in LA.
Plays with maximum effort every single game.
Sometimes its contagious.
Don’t really know if Gabe Vincent is a better choice. Only a few percentage points better from 3PT.