Canada Basketball Was on Display this Summer, Just Not at FIBA

The end result of the FIBA 2019 World Cup was not the one that was expected when the tournament began. Team Spain, with four current NBA players on the roster, beat team Argentina, whose only NBA talent was 39 year-old Luis Scola, to win the championship. Team USA, composed entirely of NBA talent, fell to…

Player Review: Masai Ujiri

Few people in life deserve to have good things happen to them more than Masai Ujiri. From paying for his own flights and sharing hotel rooms with players as an unpaid scout for the Orlando Magic 17 years ago, to becoming the President of the reigning NBA champion Toronto Raptors, Ujiri’s determination to succeed in…

2018-19 Player Review: Patrick McCaw

Patrick McCaw is an enigma. Writing this review is complicated, because everything regarding his NBA career is nothing short of hilarious. Even how he became a Toronto Raptor is hysterical. The dude won two back-to-back championships with the Golden State Warriors, and when free agency began and the Warriors presented him with a qualifying offer,…

Report: Raptors sign Stanley Johnson

Within hours of letting go of Kawhi Leonard, the Toronto Raptors have signed Stanley Johnson. A  6’7 small forward, Johnson spent the second half of the last season with the New Orleans Pelicans, and the three seasons prior with the Detroit Pistons. While Johnson is not known as a shooter, making less than half of…

Free Agency Tracker 2019

UPDATE: He don’t stay after all. Louis Zatzman has already explained in great detail that the ‘Kawhi Leonard is a Toronto Raptor’ has come and gone. He’s off to get married today (!) but we will keep our free-agency-and-off-season-moves tracker going.     While we wait on *any* Raptors-related news, here is a chart containing…