The Toronto Raptors unveiled their brand new, state-of-the-art (drink!) practice facility on Wednesday, a massive, 68,000-square foot building that general manager Masai Ujiri repeatedly referred to as the team’s new home.
We’ll have more on the details of the facility and what it means for the Raptors later on. For now, here are some bad iPhone 4S photos of the grand tour. Don’t like these and my grainy D-League photos? Then it’s a good time to remind you that you can support Raptors Republic at our Patreon page. In the meantime, I’ve embedded a few pics from better photogs, or at least journos with better cell phones.
Outside of the building, which is located at 30 British Columbia Dr. (right beside Medieval Times) on the old Exhibition grounds.
The practice area.
The workout room (love that Ali quote).
The press conference.
Other player areas (recovery room, locker room, barber’s chair, video breakdown stations, etc).
Raptors locker room at new BioSteel Centre pic.twitter.com/9eDtmYXSQo
— Josh Lewenberg (@JLew1050) February 10, 2016
Raps new practice locker room, video room and barber chair are all impressive. pic.twitter.com/Wmj22LFauk
— Chris O’Leary (@olearychris) February 10, 2016
The War Room, a top-of-the-line, IBM-powered “insight centre” for data collection and analysis, complete with interactive touch screens and a ton of one-touch capability (I geeked out so hard).
Depth charts, in-depth player stats, a real life trade machine and more in the new Raptors war room pic.twitter.com/JYR7XIYsIh
— Josh Lewenberg (@JLew1050) February 10, 2016
So the war room is pretty damn cool pic.twitter.com/ZAMY9GydlO
— Josh Lewenberg (@JLew1050) February 10, 2016
The offices of Masai Ujiri and Dwane Casey.
