{"id":722665,"date":"2021-08-12T15:41:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T19:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=722665"},"modified":"2021-08-12T15:41:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T19:41:51","slug":"goran-dragic-apologizes-to-toronto-raptors-fans-for-candid-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/news\/nba\/goran-dragic-apologizes-to-toronto-raptors-fans-for-candid-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Goran Dragic Apologizes to Toronto Raptors Fans for Candid Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Goran+Dragic\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Goran+Dragic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Goran Dragic<\/a> made headlines last week when he said that he was not interested in staying with the Toronto Raptors long-term and that he has &#8220;higher ambitions.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dragic has now walked those statements back and apologized to Raptors fans for the comment while talking with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nba\/article\/dragic-determined-make-things-right-comments-raptors-future\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nba\/article\/dragic-determined-make-things-right-comments-raptors-future\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sportsnet&#8217;s Micheal Grange.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cMy message basically, to all Toronto fans, is I would like to apologize. It didn\u2019t come out the right way. I know they love their team, and they should be proud, it is one of the best organizations in the NBA. They\u2019ve already won a championship and I didn\u2019t, so what I said, it really was not appropriate,\u201d said Dragic. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Dragic found himself in this predicament after being traded to the Raptors as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/kyle-lowry-heads-to-heat-in-sign-and-trade-with-raptors\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/nba\/kyle-lowry-heads-to-heat-in-sign-and-trade-with-raptors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sign-and-trade deal<\/a> that sent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Kyle+Lowry\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?s=Kyle+Lowry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kyle Lowry<\/a> to Miami Heat, where he went on to sign a three-year $85 million contract. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dragic played seven seasons with the Heat before being traded, playing in 391 games and averaging 16.2 points and 5.2 assists per game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The future for Dragic remains unclear after the trade to the Raptors. A trade is still possible that would ship Dragic back to a contender, or a buy-out is also on the table since Dragic is on an expiring contract worth $19.4 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s even a possibility that Dragic remains with the Raptors for next season, although that currently seems unlikely. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goran Dragic made headlines last week when he said that he was not interested in staying with the Toronto Raptors long-term and that he has &#8220;higher ambitions.&#8221; Dragic has now walked those statements back and apologized to Raptors fans for the comment while talking with Sportsnet&#8217;s Micheal Grange. \u201cMy message basically, to all Toronto fans, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":722855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62708,18,62493,62720],"tags":[63529,2558,62523,103,95],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-722665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miami-heat","category-nba","category-newswire","category-toronto-raptors","tag-2021-nba-free-agency","tag-goran-dragic","tag-mantle","tag-miami-heat","tag-toronto-raptors"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722857,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722665\/revisions\/722857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722665"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=722665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}