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What Kawhi Leonard’s Free Agency Taught Us About Truth

This is the second part of a two-part series. Read the first part, “What Kawhi Leonard’s Free Agency Taught Us About Privacy,” here.  Kawhi Leonard’s 2019 Free Agency was unlike anything the NBA has seen before. The 28-year-old superstar who just led the Toronto Raptors to their first NBA championship elected not to return to…

What Kawhi Leonard’s Free Agency Taught Us About Privacy 

Kawhi Leonard’s 2019 Free Agency was unlike anything the NBA has seen before. The 28-year-old superstar who just led the Toronto Raptors to their first NBA championship elected not to return to the Raptors, instead choosing to play for his hometown Los Angeles Clippers alongside First Team All-NBA forward Paul George. And while Leonard’s choice…

Letting go of Chris Bosh

How Bosh has managed to transform the public's perception of him from "good player tired of losing" to "greedy attention-seeking diva" is truly a thing of beauty. He has handled the 2010 free-agency period about as poorly as one can. Whereas Dwayne Wade and LeBron James have met with other teams without alienating their existing…

Podcast: Eric Smith’s take on life

Eric Smith talked some Belinelli, Paul Jones, Twitter, career, blogs and more. Have a listen by clicking on the play button below or directly in iTunes. You can also download the file. [audio:http://raptorsrepublic.com/audio/2009-08-10-EricSmith.mp3] Follow him at @eric__smith. Quick summary after the jump.

The #50kFail

How about we get to 50k with a bit of class? UPDATE: If you aren’t on Twitter, this may not make any sense to you (also, if you are, you may not care) It started out as a self-righteous duel to 50,000 followers between two of the NBA’s most prolific young-guns/Tweeters. Looking from the outside…

Need to Handle Business

What-choo-talkin-about? The Raptors need to take this one as they head into a tough stretch of games where they play 7 teams who are .500 or better. Without getting too far ahead of ourselves, there is a game against the Wolves. Don’t get too excited, but it could mean two wins in a row for…

Roll Call – December 20th vs Spurs

AltRaps is off for a week, I’ll try to fill the big shoes. Raps Fan with the post-game report later…if he recovers from his bender. It’s the “Shame on you for tuning in” edition. Adams – When Colangelo beat zero other teams to the punch in signing Adams, is this how he envisioned him being…