by Tim Povtak
ORLANDO — The money is too good for Hedo Turkoglu to have any kind of regrets. It’s the Toronto Raptors who might be having second thoughts now.
They may have given a star’s contract to a not-so-star player.
Winning the offseason chase for a high-priced free agent comes with no guarantee — except that the payroll will rise.
The Toronto Raptors committed five years and $52 million this summer to lure Turkoglu away from the Orlando Magic, only to watch him struggle through this early-season adjustment, failing to deliver the kind of big-money return they wanted.
“It’s not the kind of start we had hoped for (from Turkoglu),” said Raptors general manager Bryan Colangelo Wednesday evening before the Raptors lost to the Magic. “But it’s probably the kind of start that most people expected. It’s just too early to come to any conclusions.”