Having just started a 5 game road trip the Raptors begin an LA back-to-back today with a game against the Lakers. Their first visit with Kawhi Leonard (recent Toronto Raptor and current defending NBA champion) awaits tomorrow, but first is a visit with another former Raptor and NBA champion in Danny Green. Despite losing both…
A relatively easy win in New Orleans was marred by the loss of Lowry and Ibaka to injury.
The Toronto Raptors have opened up the season at 1-0 behind the (great) strength of Fred VanVleet and Pascal Siakam. Thinking about Norman Powell’s “This team is built by workers.” quote, and watching the un-drafted VanVleet and 27th overall Siakam pour in a combined 68 points is a special type of satisfactory. This team was built by…
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…
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…
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…
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…
