Danny Green was arguably the most consistent Raptor throughout the 2018-19 regular season, helping the team achieve a 58-24 record and the 2nd seed in the Eastern Conference. Despite being considered a “throw-in” in the Kawhi Leonard-DeMar DeRozan trade by some pundits, it became clear very quickly that Green would be more than that for…
Reputations are a funny thing. Easy to establish the wrong kind of reputation, and hard to correct it once it’s built. The Raptors, prior to this last season, had a reputation as a team that just couldn’t be trusted in the postseason, a team that would find a way to disappoint. Their emotional leader over…
If you were to graph Chris Boucher’s basketball progression the line wouldn’t take on a linear trajectory, but rather a steep exponential curve of growth. Many NBA players have been tabbed for professional success since early in their teenage years and became household names after years on the AAU circuit, however Boucher’s path has been…
The big man from the Republic of the Congo: Serge Ibaka. One of the craziest things about his year (one in which he became an NBA Champion) is that he hit a bigger jab-step shot than Carmelo Anthony ever did. While Game 7 of the ECSF was the high-water mark of Ibaka’s season (maybe his…
Good coaching in the NBA is nothing like pornography; we almost never know it when we see it. Coaching is one of the most opaque duties in the NBA, as the vast majority of a coach’s job is invisible to the average viewer. You don’t see the entire role of a coach on the television…
Patrick McCaw is an enigma. Writing this review is complicated, because everything regarding his NBA career is nothing short of hilarious. Even how he became a Toronto Raptor is hysterical. The dude won two back-to-back championships with the Golden State Warriors, and when free agency began and the Warriors presented him with a qualifying offer,…
Last summer we all held our heads high after we learned that OG Anunoby wasn’t included in the Kawhi Leonard-DeMar DeRozan trade. After all, after Anunoby’s rookie season, some people had proclaimed him a “Kawhi-lite”. Giddy at the thought of how high Anunoby’s star could rise, we all wondered if he would learn from Leonard,…
He wasn't called on often during games, but Eric Moreland is still an NBA Champion with the Toronto Raptors after a roundabout 2018-19 season.
After four years at Holy Cross College in Massachusetts, one G League season with the Maine Red Claws, and one season playing for Alba Berlin in Germany, Malcolm Miller eventually signed a contract with the Toronto Raptors in 2017 to become their first ever two-way signee. The 6-foot-7, 210-pound combo-forward has the makings of a…
Amidst the daily rumour mill churning out increasingly nonsensical stories, cameras snapping shots of Kawhi Leonard doing the most mundane errands, and eventually helicopters tracking SUVs Cops-style, KawhiWatch superseded sports and evolved into a full-blown reality television program. It consumed our worlds for seven painstakingly long days. Now that is all over. Call me old…
It’s difficult to say when exactly the switch flipped for Pascal Siakam. It may’ve happened at some point last summer when he religiously attended Rico Hines’ pick up games at UCLA, garnering praise from some of the game’s elite. Or maybe it came when Siakam averaged a team-high 20.0 points, 4.3 rebounds, shot .724 (21-for-29)…
As an obsessive individual that needs all my ducks in a row in order to quell those looming spells of anxiety, waiting can be damn hard. Painstakingly so. The moment that something falls out of your hands and you have to rely on others, doubt begins to creep in. Maybe I’m a perpetual pessimist, but…