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Raptors ink G Martin - 09/30/2007 - MiamiHerald.com
The Toronto Raptors signed veteran guard Darrick Martin. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The 5-foot-11 Martin has played 12 NBA seasons with Toronto, Minnesota, Vancouver, Sacramento, Dallas and the Los Angeles Clippers. In 31 games last season with the Raptors, he averaged three points [...]

globesports.com: Sports Media Canada names Colangelo executive of year
Bryan Colangelo, president and GM of the Toronto Raptors, is this year’s recipient of Sports Media Canada’s executive of the year award.

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TorontoSun.com - Basketball - Bosh puts boot to injury
“It’s good right now, but I still treat it with respect,” Bosh said yesterday as the Raptors gathered as a team for the first time prior to heading over to Italy for their European training camp. “I’m not going to say I’m 100% because I’m too nervous [...]

globeandmail.com: Globe on Sports
What was expected to be an easy start to training camp to loosen up after arriving Saturday morning by way of an overnight flight on the Dallas Mavericks’ Boing 757 was instead a tough, intense, practice that went a full two hours.
“A tone was set,” said Raptors president Bryan Colangelo.

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globesports.com: Raptors bound for Europe
But there are really only five questions that count as the Raptors set out to prove that their 47-35 performance last year is a starting point rather than a high point.

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TheStar.com | Sports | Garbajosa back and rarin’ to go
“The only thing I know is I can practise at the level of my teammates; I can run and jump. I think you cannot feel that maybe Garbo is a step back or something.
“That is the feeling that I have.”

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TheStar.com | Sports | Raps’ consiglieri Embry gets contract extension
The Raptors worked for nearly three hours in Treviso, Italy, last night to kick off the 2007-08 pre-season, a longer-than-usual run for a group that spent about eight hours in an airplane just getting to camp.
“It wasn’t too bad, not that long,” coach Sam Mitchell said.
There [...]

TheStar.com | Sports | Raps’ consiglieri Embry gets contract extension
The senior basketball advisor to the Raptors has agreed to a contract extension with the team that will keep him as the eminence grise of the Toronto franchise through the 2009-10 season.
Embry, a basketball hall of famer, first joined the Raptors in 2004 as an advisor [...]

TheStar.com | Sports | European invasion begins
“It’s going to expose our product to a host of people who have expressed a lot of interest in our team,” president and general manager Bryan Colangelo said in a telephone interview this week of the Raptors’ journey that starts this morning. “We are clearly the NBA’s only truly [...]

TheStar.com | Sports | Mitchell less than thrilled by overseas tour
So now we know: Signing a contract extension that could earn him as much as $17 million (U.S.) for his next four years’ work hasn’t changed Mitchell. At age 44, the 2006-07 NBA coach of the year remains perhaps the most curmudgeonly human being on [...]