A report in a Toronto newspaper on Monday suggested Raptors' GM Rob Babcock passed on two trades, inspiring another round of second-guess the GM.

The report said Babcock could have landed New Orleans Hornets center and Toronto resident Jamaal Magloire in a deal involving Carter. In addition, a draft night deal would have brought Seattle SuperSonics guard Antonio Daniels to the Raptors and still provided Toronto with the No. 12 pick, likely high enough to get Araujo, whom the Raptors took at No. 8.

"There was not a deal to be done with New Orleans," Babcock said. "Anything to the contrary would have been false."

He added that the draft night deal, as reported, was not plausible, either. "You can't trade a player for a draft pick unless you have a [trade] exception," Babcock said. "So again, that trade [as reported] was completely false."