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A lot has changed since February 2020. In 2020, the Raptors’ entire championship roster was essentially intact, minus Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green. Now, there’s nobody left. In 2020, we had no clue there was a pandemic coming. Now, Zoom is just a part of our lives. Tonight, however, the Raptors transported us back to […]
22 days ago | 0 reads
If you, like me, have been locked in on Dancing with the Stars this season, you know ball. If you haven’t been in tune with one of the best reality television shows ever in its 20-year history, let me explain how it works. Celebrities are paired with professional ballroom dancers, and each week they rehearse […]
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When you post on SB Nation, we don’t want you to miss all the conversations and responses that follow. So starting today, whenever a user replies to your comment or to your post on the Feed, you’ll see a notification at the top right corner of the page. And of course, this means that when […]
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The Toronto Raptors are 8-1 in their last 9 games, and tonight’s win against Charlotte is their fourth in a row, tying their previous four-game streak from earlier in the season. It feels like they’ve won more in the last few weeks than they have in the past few years. So, is this real or […]
24 days ago | 0 reads
What a difference a year makes! When the schedule was first released, the first 20 games looked eerily similar to last season. The Raptors would have a very difficult first quarter of the season, followed by a very easy slate of games after the All-Star break. Last year, Toronto only won 5 of its first […]
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After overcoming the Indiana Pacers on Saturday night, the Toronto Raptors completed their fourth victory in their ongoing win streak. Now, sitting as the four seed in the East at 8-5, they will host the twelfth-seeded Charlotte Hornets, hoping to remain in the winners’ column. This will be the first of three matchups in a […]
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The Toronto Raptors conclude their five-game Eastern Conference road trip with a matchup against the Indiana Pacers on Saturday. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. EST on TSN. After the Raptors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 126-113 on Nov. 13, they improved to 7-5 and are two games above .500 for the first time since 2022. […]
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When the Toronto Raptors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers on Halloween, the team’s fiercest doubters highlighted how the absence of key rotational players poisoned the result. With several of those contributors returning for the Cavaliers, the Raptors were ready to prove that they should be taken more seriously in the Eastern Conference. The Raptors may have […]
28 days ago | 4 reads
The Toronto Raptors begin the back-end of their five-game Eastern Conference road trip against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. EST on TSN. The matchup marks the second time in less than two weeks that the Raptors and Cavaliers play each other. In the previous contest, the Raptors defeated a […]
28 days ago | 2 reads
The first round of OVR ranking updates in NBA2K have finally been released, and with it, some necessary adjustments have occurred. Earlier in the year when the rankings were released, we took the opportunity to look at the Raptors ratings, the ones that were way too high and the ones that were way too low. […]
29 days ago | 1 read
When you eat an Oreo cookie, which part do you prefer? Are you like my wife and eat the cookies or do you want all the sugary goodness in the middle like me? Whatever your choice (you’re hungry now), I may have to change mine. Temporarily. The week ahead for the Raptors sees a pair […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
The Toronto Raptors played back-to-back road games in Atlanta and Philadelphia over the weekend, winning a crucial NBA Cup game on Friday and losing to the 76ers on Saturday. Yet, one of the biggest narratives to come from the weekend was an incident involving Brandon Ingram. Now, the NBA has announced Ingram will be fined […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads
Last week, the WNBA announced it will be holding the WNBA Draft Lottery on November 23rd. This will determine the order of the first five picks of the 2026 WNBA Draft. Teams picking are the Dallas Wings, Minnesota Lynx (who own Chicago’s pick), Seattle Storm (who own the LA Sparks’ pick), Washington Mystics, and Chicago […]
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We’ve had the NBA Cup now for a few seasons, and it’s not a secret that drumming up excitement for it has been… difficult. Now, public NBA Cup truther and SB Nation NBA manager Harrison Faigen has been preaching about the NBA Cup since the LA Lakers won the first edition, and I never understood […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
It’s that time of year: NBA City Edition jerseys. You either love or hate your team’s edition of the jerseys every year, which is fair given that teams take some… artistic liberties on the designs. The Toronto Raptors have been through a few iterations of their city threads. For a long stretch there, the team […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read
It was quite the day in Toronto Basketball. It started at 11 am, when the Toronto Tempo held a press conference to welcome their first franchise head coach, Sandy Brondello, to the team. It ended a few blocks away at Scotiabank Arena, where the Toronto Raptors played the Milwaukee Bucks. Sandy Brondello was also there, […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
The Regular Season has barely gotten out of bed, and the rash of injuries is already piling up. Last Friday, the Cavaliers were without Darius Garland, Donovan Mitchell, Jarrett Allen, and Max Strus. That’s 80% of Cleveland’s starting lineup! On Sunday, the Grizzlies strolled into town without the injured Zach Edey, Ty Jerome, Brandon Clarke, […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads
The thoughts of most Torontonians could not be further removed from the NBA right now. The 6ix is now, for the first time in nearly a decade, a bona fide baseball city. World Series Mania has consumed Canadians, and with good reason. The Blue Jays really are Canada’s team, just like the Raptors, and when […]
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
If you decided to cure the Sunday scaries and post-Jays loss blues by watching the Toronto Raptors, you may have been able to tell they were at an immediate advantage tonight against the Memphis Grizzlies. That’s because Ja Morant, the Grizzlies’ frontman, had been suspended for one game earlier in the weekend, and this was […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read
Last week, it was reported that Sandy Brondello will be the first head coach of the Toronto Tempo. While the Tempo have yet to confirm Brondello as their choice, they will announce their hire at a press conference early next week. In the meantime, Brondello got on the Bird’s Eye View podcast with her former […]
about 1 month ago | 0 reads
The Raptors continue their road trip, heading north from Texas to Ohio, where they’ll get their first look at this season’s Cleveland Cavaliers squad. The two teams will kick off the third annual NBA Cup in the Rocket Arena, competing for first blood in the tournament, and the first steps to the pile of cash […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read
It feels like this is a recurring theme in Toronto Raptors lore these days, but another young player is being asked to step up amid injury early on in the season. With Jakob Poeltl out with back soreness, it was time for rookie Colin Murray-Boyles to step up, and the No. 9 overall pick in […]
about 1 month ago | 3 reads
There was an influx of WNBA coaching hires in the past week, including, of course, the Toronto Tempo hiring former New York Liberty head coach Sandy Brondello. One of Brondello’s former assistants was hired as well — Sonia Raman will be heading across the country to the Seattle Storm, the first pro-league head coaching position […]
about 1 month ago | 0 reads
After a tough matchup in Dallas last night, the Toronto Raptors continued their tour of Texas against the San Antonio Spurs. Playing on the second night of a back-to-back on the road this early in the season was evident throughout much of the game. The Raptors trailed throughout and any opportunity they had to get […]
about 1 month ago | 1 read
Boo! Halloween may be at the tail end of this week, but the spooks and scares are all over the Toronto Raptors’ opening schedule. After getting bullied by Giannis Antetokounmpo, Anthony Davis, and Cooper Flagg, the Raps’ schedule doesn’t get any less daunting. This week’s opponents feature an alien, Aquaman, a Spider, and someone likely […]
about 2 months ago | 2 reads