NBA players are well compensated, to be sure. Still, so long as you understand the concepts of relativism and a fixed market, you can comprehend how important cheap labour can be to teams that have to navigate life in a salary-capped world.This is why, except in the cases of the most obvious of busts, the third- and fourth-year options of rookie contracts tend to be exercised for players picked late in the first round. Those options represent real money, and they can eat into cap space if you have grand plans to make a splash. On the scale of commitments a team can make to a player, they are low-risk, high-reward. You devote a small percentage of the cap and a roster spot to a player you hope can eventually become a bigger contributor.Bruno Caboclo blows up all of that logic, because his “two years away from being two years away” case is unique. The Raptors were always playing the long game with Caboclo, the 20th-overall pick from the 2014 Draft who was so off of the radar...