Fresh off their first championship in franchise history, the Toronto Raptors find themselves in an interesting position heading into the 2019-20 campaign. Their best player, Kawhi Leonard, is gone, and with his departure comes more questions than answers heading into next season. It also means a number of young players are preparing themselves to step…
Siakam averaged 19.1 ppg last year and Leonard's exit means that they're about 20-25 more possessions available for other offensive options. Keeping this in mind...
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Last summer, after the Toronto Raptors traded two of the team’s weaker defenders in DeMar DeRozan and Jakob Poeltl for two All-Defensive Team players in Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green, it was clear that the Raptors had a newfound identity: Defense. For a franchise that has been around since 1995, the Raptors on-court identity was…
This was always an accident. A very happy accident. A great one, even. But an accident nonetheless. It was an accident when Masai Ujiri traded away Rudy Gay, thinking he was headed for a rebuild, and the team got better. It was an accident when Masai negotiated a Kyle Lowry trade, thinking that it was…
Before I started writing and podcasting for RR, I loved posing questions to Blake Murphy when he would do his mailbags. It was a cool way to see myself represented on a site I loved, and it was a direct answer from somebody who’s basketball knowledge I respected. As a writer who’s been treated to…
All signs point towards the Raptors sealing it here.
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…
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…
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…