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Nothing says excitement like confronting Bobby Knight as he holds a gun. Speaking of hunting, it’s believed that to get that championship ring that all NBAers and their fans hunt for, you need at least three solid players. TrueHoop looks around the league at some contenders and nary a mention of the Raptors in sight. [...]

TSN : NBA - Canada’s Sports Leader
The Toronto Raptors injury picture remained murky Thursday as the team prepared to host the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Chris Bosh wasn’t at practice while Andrea Bargnani barely practised and T.J. Ford stayed behind long after his teammates left, trying to work himself back into game shape.
All three players are nursing a [...]

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Griz get selfish, fall to Raptors : Grizzlies : Commercial Appeal
The Grizzlies’ routine one-on-one play made for a stagnant offense, drained life out of their defense and effectively ended a two-game winning streak. The Grizzlies, whose free-flowing offense is predicated on ball movement, finished with a season-low 13 assists one night after amassing 32 assists [...]

ESPN - Rookie Watch: Durant showing discipline, Noah making noise - NBA
The rookie class should be studying Moon’s game. It’s compact, meaning he does not try to do too many things. Nonetheless, his game is varied. He doesn’t force much. Don’t think of him as just an athletic defender, because he can score inside off [...]

ESPN - Daily Dime: Projecting East playoff slots - NBA
6. Toronto Raptors (8-7) — Chris Bosh, who left Wednesday’s win over the Memphis Grizzlies with a strained groin, is the fifth-best power forward in the game (after Tim Duncan, Garnett, Carlos Boozer and Dirk Nowitzki). His health is key. So is that of T.J. Ford, [...]

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Doug Smith’s Toronto Raptors blog
Here’s the inside dope on that Kanye West song that seems to be the intro music in every arena in the league. No, the NBA doesn’t mandate its use (I can’t imagine David Stern sitting around with a bunch of CDs coming up with some catchy tune). Apparently eight or nine [...]

http://www.thestar.com/Sports/NBA/article/280959Their 103-91 victory spoke to the essence of why they might be a squad to fear as the season tumbles forward.
If you’ve been around Raptorland from the get-go this season you get the sense that, though the personnel remains largely the same, this isn’t the same happy-go-lucky group that inhabited those red-and-white jerseys a season [...]

http://www.thestar.com/Sports/NBA/article/280958But if the likes of Carlos Delfino and Jason Kapono continue to play as they did last night, it’ll lessen the urgency with which the Raptors need their injured players to return.
Delfino scored all 14 of his points in the decisive second quarter – when Toronto out-scored Memphis 30-10 and took control of the game. [...]