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The Raptors are scheduled to have 18 players in town this week.  Things could change, but so far, here’s the workout sked for Toronto:
TUESDAY JUNE 3: Guard - Wayne Ellington - North Carolina Guard - Shan Foster - Vanderbilt Guard - Jamont Gordon - Mississippi [...]

Sure, a broad question and one that could never be answered. But then we never thought we would be a .500 team this year, did we…
What we’ve done is come up with a knock-out bracket of Raptor players with the intention of crowning one player as the “best”. Up to you what that means: best, [...]

The NBA had seven black top executives among its 30 teams this past season, the highest percentage of minority presidents and CEOs in men’s professional sports history.
The 23 per cent of black executives, plus high ratios of women and black vice-presidents, helped the NBA receive the first overall “A" among men’s sports teams, according to [...]

The thinking is that Riley is concerned about drafting someone as apparently immature as Beasley.
There is a terrific Washington Post story from a year ago making the rounds. It details Beasley’s journey to six high schools in five states and quotes him saying he was "just killing time" in high school. Basketball factory Oak [...]

Sure, a broad question and one that could never be answered. But then we never thought we would be a .500 team this year, did we…
What we’ve done is come up with a knock-out bracket of Raptor players with the intention of crowning one player as the “best”. Up to you what that means: best, [...]

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Here’s one thing to remember about the pre-draft camp that rolls on today in Orlando: Bryan Colangelo is not coming back with a changed roster.
There will be lots of trade talk but I cannot envision a scenario that something gets done; the groundwork may be laid but that’s about it.
The concentration is going to be [...]

Sure, a broad question and one that could never be answered. But then we never thought we would be a .500 team this year, did we…
What we’ve done is come up with a knock-out bracket of Raptor players with the intention of crowning one player as the “best”. Up to you what that means: best, [...]

For the first time in his three-year tenure as Toronto’s hoops czar, Bryan Colangelo heads to the land of Disney, where his team was ousted in five games by the Magic last month, with every conceivable option on the table.
In Orlando, tires will be kicked, names will get floated, individual workouts will be finalized and [...]

Bryan Colangelo and his merry band of talent evaluators are headed to Orlando today for the pre-draft camp that starts there tomorrow.
About 15 of the top players are invited, mainly to meet, get measured, take physicals and do drills rather than play games, and depending on how the draft actually breaks down, there’s a good [...]