With the trade deadline a mere nine days away, the gap between buyers and sellers has never been more pronounced. Many struggling teams are willing to entertain offers for even their brightest stars, while established, title-hungry teams are itching to pilfer those very assets. ...more
It's finally beginning to happen. It may be just a trickle at the moment, but the U.S. basketball press is finally starting to acknowledge the idea that Chris Bosh won't be headed south next month, and a renegade few are even taking in the notion of him sticking in Canada for the next six years. ...more
We're halfway through the Raptors season, 21-20 in the record books, in a three-way tie for fifth place in the Eastern Conference, yet the only thing one hears about this team outside of Canada is easy it's going to be to pry Chris Bosh away from this team over the next thirty days. ...more
Despite what many think, money and familiarity give the Raptors the inside track to re-signing Chris Bosh this summer (it's borderline unprecedented for a max-level free agent to leave a team willing to pay them max money), while Hedo Turkoglu's contract makes him almost impossible to ship off to another team. ...more
Wednesday marks the beginning of Jay Triano's biggest test as an NBA head coach. Seriously. Wednesday, by all accounts, Jose Calderon will return from injury to the Raptors lineup. How Jay Triano adjusts to that fact will go a long way towards defining the Raptors' season from here on out. ...more
The Raptors have stuck their foot in the door of possibilities with an improbable five-game win streak and now must work to open that door fully if they want that achievement to mean anything more substantial. ...more
While it's hard to say exactly that the Raptors are on a roll (they have teased and regressed more times this season then most care to recount), they have managed to string together more wins than losses in their last ten (6-4), which can be counted as something of an upturn. ...more
The talk is getting louder about how badly Hedo Turkoglu has been playing in Toronto this season and questions abound as to when he'll finally start producing like the Raptors have paid him to. The fact is, though, that Hedo is basically performing within the averages he set in his time in Orlando and is shooting better from the floor than he did last year for the Magic's Finals-bound squad, so what exactly are people waiting for? ...more
The Toronto Raptors are not a good basketball team. An over simplistic statement, perhaps, but after Chris Bosh uttered as much following Toronto's last meeting against the same Atlanta Hawks that thrashed them last night, little of substance has occurred to change that interpretation. ...more
Here we are on December 3rd, not even a quarter of the way through this NBA season, and the Raptors are already in a severe panic mode. All of the hope and promise that befell this team after a summer makeover has collapsed under the weight of a five-game losing streak (nine of their last eleven have been losses, too), one of the league's worst defenses and an offense that has suddenly lost all of its early season punch. ...more
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