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…
May 7, 2018 — DeMar DeRozan walked down the hallway dejected, jersey slung over his shoulder. The Toronto Raptors were down 97-72 to the Cleveland Cavaliers and their top scorer had been ejected for a flagrant foul borne of out of frustration. There was another quarter to be played, but the result was inevitable. Another…
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…
TOR Raptors 105 Final Box Score 92 GS Warriors A P. Siakam41 MIN, 19 PTS, 5 REB, 1 AST, 0 STL, 6-14 FG, 0-2 3FG, 7-8 FT, 1 BLK, 1 TO, 5 +/- There were some rough early minutes for Pascal, as he struggled to attack the Warriors defense and find seams in the first…
Game 3 may not go down as the most memorable outing over the Toronto Raptors’ 21 game playoff run. It wasn’t a basketball masterpiece nor was it a last-second edge of your seat affair. In fact, the part that will be etched into viewer’s minds years from now will most likely be Stephen Curry’s herculean…
The narratives surrounding a NBA playoff series are hard to predict coming in, and often need to adjust for the circumstances as the series goes on. Game three in Oakland was certainly one that would dictate the way the story of this series was told going forward. After coughing up a lead in game two…
Quick reminder: we have a Game 4 Watch Party at Hot Tokyo Fried Chicken (King and Peter) – tickets are $10 and that includes a beer – get your tickets and see you there! Off to Oakland we go! The disappointment of the Game 2 loss has dissipated and now the Toronto Raptors have a very…
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…
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…
GS Warriors 109 Final Box Score 104 TOR Raptors C P. Siakam41 MIN, 12 PTS, 8 REB, 5 AST, 0 STL, 5-18 FG, 0-3 3FG, 2-4 FT, 0 BLK, 0 TO, -4 +/- The Warriors did a much better job on Siakam defensively, and took away his game. He needed to be better at taking…
Dinosaurs roamed the planet for over 165 million years, sitting comfortably atop of the food chain hierarchy. It took a meteor of historic proportions nearly 65 million years ago to rattle the existence of living creatures at that time. I won’t bore you with the scientific details, but simply put, that meteor caused shit to…
It is funny how emotions escalate and dissipate in the blink of an eye in professional sports. The high of climbing atop the Eastern Conference has faded and now another task, one that is even more formidable, emerges. It’s time to snap back to reality. The Toronto Raptors now have one final opponent to overcome…