Quick Reaction: 76ers 112, Raptors 90
The Raptors make a second-half push, but ultimately drop one to the Embiid-less 76ers.
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Legacy-shaping Finals run reveals connection between Chris Paul, Kyle Lowry
A championship run for Chris Paul won’t merely impact his own individual legacy—it will add to Kyle Lowry’s, too, and any small guard subject to the fires of archaic narrative.
Canada Basketball announces invites for Men’s FIBA training camp
Canada Basketball released a list of 21 names, all of whom will to tryout for the FIBA qualifying tournament.
Raptors to face Nets in Game 1 Monday; first round playoff schedules released
The Raptors' road to a repeat begins Monday.
Raptors name John Wiggins VP, Organizational Culture and Inclusion
The brand new position is an effort to ensure the organization's ongoing commitment to change and community.
Sports are too big of a distraction to resume just yet
Let’s start here: What made the current Black Lives Matter movement for social reform and against police brutality bigger, lengthier, and more influential than ones in the past? What made it so diverse and so united towards one single cause? The circumstances leading up to the tragic murder of George Floyd certainly played a part.…
What Comes After Everything?
Change in itself always involves a loss. At the very least, it is a loss of the status quo, of the way things were. This is why whether a change is positive or negative there is always some dimension of loss to it, with some measure of grief being warranted even if it is…
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…