Raptors defence falls apart vs Warriors
Jordan Poole finishes with a career-high 43 points, Raptors lose all three games of homestand.
Draymond Green
Pascal Siakam named Eastern Conference Player of the Week
Pascal Siakam is your Eastern Conference Player of the Week for Week 16 but won't replace Kevin Durant or Draymond Green in the All-Star game.
Scottie and Pascal fit, and more silver linings from a loss to the leagues best
Despite losing to the NBA’s best team, the Raptors found some things that work.
Top 100 NBA Players to Finish the Season 100-76
To the surprise of no one, the NBA is trying very hard to finish it’s season. Players and owners alike have a watchful eye on dropping revenue, and will do their damndest to mitigate the financial losses that COVID-19 has subjected to their sector. Naturally, there’s a lot left to figure out before anything pops…
Gameday: Raptors @ Warriors, Mar. 5
The defending champion Raptors can clinch a playoff berth with a win.
The biggest takeaways from deflating Game 5 loss
Monday night sucked. The result sucked, Kevin Durant’s injury sucked, the crowd’s reaction sucked, the lack of energy from then on out sucked, and the late game choke job most definitely sucked. Over the past two days, everyone is keenly aware of the totality of suckage that occured during Game 5. It’s hard to zoom…
The Shot Blocker with a Three in his Locker: Serge emerges in Raptors crucial Game 4 win
He feigned a pass to the wing, catching his defender flat-footed as he viciously cut back onto his right hand. Blood was in the water. As his defender helplessly backpedalled to recover, he flummoxed them once more with an equally abrupt behind-the-back dribble. Then, he pirouetted backwards, bang, one-two step, like a tap dancer nailing…
How Big (or Small) Should the Raptors Get?
There is no shortage of storylines in an NBA final featuring the Warriors playing for a three-peat with Kevin Durant injured, Steph Curry on the greatest playoff run of his life, and Kawhi Leonard making his case for the game’s greatest player. But, as Dan Devine writes, while “the starrier battles lie elsewhere, no single…
Series Snapshot: Assessing the biggest takeaways from Raptors-Warriors as series heads to Oakland
Heads up, Friday Game 4 is our watch party in downtown Toronto – get your tickets. If the opening two games of the NBA Finals were an indicator of things to come, we may be in for a long series. There has been a little bit of everything so far: frenetic defence, scoring runs, injury…
Raptors succumb to Warriors’ signature third quarter performance in Game 2 loss
When the Golden State Warriors took the world by storm during their breakout 2014/15 regular season, they also made a few sharp gamblers quite some money along the way. The team had shown star potential the season prior, but not many people foresaw the meteoric rise in such a sudden fashion. Once the Warriors established…
Gameday: Warriors @ Raptors (0-1), June 2nd
Every step forward is new and transformative for the Raptors. There’s nothing repetitive or cyclical about what they’re doing, and there won’t be until all 30 NBA teams are engaged in action again next October. Rather than walking gingerly on this new and hallowed ground, the Raptors stomped into this new arena, with fervor, and…
