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#6 Toronto Raptors
Previous rank: 11th (worldwide)
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Average annual salary: £7.58 million ($9.67 million)
Highest-paid player: Kyle Lowry ($31 million)
The Raptors are run by one of the wiliest front office officials in Masai Ujiri, who was a huge coup for the organization as he's proved time and again in the past 5 and a half years. Ujiri has turned around one of the worst expansion teams in league history into a perennial playoff team, working trades left, right and centre to get rid of the dead weight on their wage bill and consolidating around DeMar DeRozan and Kyle Lowry.
The former has since been traded to the San Antonio Spurs for the best two-way swingman in the world in Kawhi Leonard, and the organization hopes to hold on to him and make him their highest earner by this time next season.
