The Toronto Raptors are aching to sign up a power forward to beef up its frontline, and there are three names on their wish list.

The three names are Thaddeus Young (Brooklyn Nets), Kenneth Faried (Denver Nuggets) and Markieff Morris (Phoenix Suns), as revealed by Brian Windhorst of ESPN via TSN 1050 radio.

Landing any of the three may not be that easy considering the Raptors have a questionable salary structure on their side to pull off any trade and satisfy the team’s needs.

The best that the Raptors can offer are extra first-round picks for the next two drafts. General manager Masai Ujiri seems bent on dealing at least one of those soon for a power forward though the salary cap will be the next problem they will have to deal with next.

Thaddeus Young has surprisingly been a target lately, though it seems difficult to think that Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov would be open to dealing his foundation player.

Young and Brook Lopez were secured in the offseason and offered multi-year deals with the understanding that they will be the cornerstones of the Nets moving forward. That alone makes it impobable to believe that Young will be moved soon unless there is an offered player that would be hard to pass up.

Faried, on the other hand, was linked to trade talks back in the offseason but seems to have fit in well with the system of Michael Malone. After a subpar last season, Faried has become a steady force for the Nuggets.

Being a young team, however, the Nuggets could skim at the potential list of incoming freshmen and weigh things from there. If they see good chances of snagging promising young players from the NBA Draft, a trade may not be totally discounted.

The third man is Morris, who has been in trade talks since before the season started. A lot of that dates back to the deal involving his twin brother Marcus who is now with the Detroit Pistons, though the Suns’ landscape may have changed recently with the change of coaches.

Jeff Hornacek was fired and Earl Watson is now calling the shots in an interim basis. Compared to the early part of the season, Morris seems to have recovered his groove under Watson.

That was until recently when he had a shoving match with teammate Archie Goodwin during a timeout of their game against the Golden State Warriors, via the Sun-Times.

Though the incident wasn’t pretty, it can be viewed in a positive way. Compared to before, Morris is showing more fire and the will to win. Could that hint at Morris staying in Phoenix?

Whoever the Raptors target, it may not be that easy. It all starts by fixing their internal budget and targeting players who fit into their financial state.