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Quick Reaction: Raptors 90, Magic 83

TOR Raptors 90 Final Box Score 83 ORL Magic C- P. Siakam40 MIN, 10 PTS, 13 REB, 5 AST, 1 STL, 4-22 FG, 1-7 3FG, 1-3 FT, 1 BLK, 3 TO, 13 +/- Jonathan Isaac is one of the league’s best defenders and is uniquely suited to bother Siakam. We saw it in the first…

Meandering Through Atlanta, Picking up a Win

Basketball is an interesting game at the NBA level. There’s a certain amount of effort that a fanbase will accept from a team, knowing that it’s a long season. Some teams have such a high level of pedigree that they know exactly how much of a game they can take off and still win. Championship…

Siakam Returns to the Post as Raptors Pace the Trailblazers

This was a game of polar-opposites. The Raptors concocted a wonderful defensive gameplan for the immensely talented Damian Lillard, and mitigated so much of what he’s successful at. The Blazers, for their part, allowed Pascal Siakam to return to the very thing he built his MIP campaign on, his launching point. 🤔 https://t.co/xM39N1R4RF — Damian…

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…

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The Toronto Raptors are NBA Champions, now they need to start acting like one

The defending NBA champion Toronto Raptors are built by workers. Their championship core – famously boasting zero lottery draft picks – embraced these humble roots and let their on-court play do the talking throughout last year’s playoff run. They embodied an underdog persona as the rest of the basketball world ignored their obvious potential, leaning…

The Marc Gasol of it all

A folklore hero for some time in Spain, and now for the rest of his life in Toronto, Marc Gasol is coming back for a second season with the Raptors. Not only did Gasol win it all with the Raptors last year, but he added on another piece of hardware with the Spanish national team.…