Jermaine O'Neal, The Newest Toronto Raptor?

There have been many rumors circulating the Raptors lately mainly involving TJ Ford. Many players were rumoured to come to the Raptors including Boris Diaw and Jermaine O'Neal.

Now after lots of speculation, the Indiana Pacers have verbally agreed to trade  6'11" forward/center Jermaine O'Neal to the Raptors for guard TJ Ford, center Rasho Nesterovic, their first round pick in this year's draft and a player to be named later for cap space reasons.

O'Neal is a former MVP candidate who is also a six time All-Star. If healthy, he would be a huge contributer to the Raptors who are in need of another inside presence other then Chris Bosh.

O'Neal has had a lot of injury problems in the last year, one of the reasons this agreement is still verbal and not final. He still has to take a physical to make sure he is healthy, since the Raptors don't want to take an injured O'Neal. Here are almost 30-year-old O'Neals career stats:

Season	Age	Tm	Lg	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%				FT	FTA	FT%			TRB	AST	STL	BLK			PTS
1996-97	18	POR	NBA	45	0	10.2	1.5	3.4	.451				1.0	1.7	.603			2.8	0.2	0.0	0.6			4.1
1997-98	19	POR	NBA	60	9	13.5	1.9	3.9	.485				0.8	1.5	.506			3.4	0.3	0.3	1.0			4.5
1998-99	20	POR	NBA	35	1	8.9	1.0	2.4	.434				0.5	1.0	.514			2.8	0.4	0.1	0.4			2.6
1999-00	21	POR	NBA	70	8	12.3	1.5	3.2	.486				0.8	1.4	.582			3.3	0.3	0.2	0.8			3.9
2000-01	22	IND	NBA	81	80	32.6	5.0	10.7	.465				2.9	4.8	.601			9.8	1.2	0.6	2.8			12.9
2001-02	23	IND	NBA	72	72	37.6	7.5	15.7	.479				3.9	5.7	.688			10.5	1.6	0.6	2.3			19.0
2002-03	24	IND	NBA	77	76	37.2	7.9	16.4	.484				4.8	6.6	.731			10.3	2.0	0.9	2.3			20.8
2003-04	25	IND	NBA	78	78	35.7	7.8	17.9	.434				4.5	5.9	.757			10.0	2.1	0.8	2.6			20.1
2004-05	26	IND	NBA	44	41	34.8	8.8	19.4	.452				6.7	8.9	.754			8.8	1.9	0.6	2.0			24.3
2005-06	27	IND	NBA	51	47	35.3	7.5	15.8	.472				5.1	7.2	.709			9.3	2.6	0.5	2.3			20.1
2006-07	28	IND	NBA	69	69	35.6	7.2	16.5	.436				5.0	6.5	.767			9.6	2.4	0.7	2.6			19.4
2007-08	29	IND	NBA	42	34	28.7	5.4	12.2	.439				2.9	3.9	.742			6.7	2.2	0.5	2.1			13.6

Wow, long list, difficult to fit it all in. If Jermaine can stay healthy, this will be a fantastic trade, if not, it will hurt them dearly.