Linkage – July 13
The biggest disappointment for the Toronto Raptors in opening action at the Las Vegas Summer League yesterday wasn’t the 92-83 loss to the Sacramento Kings.
It was that rookie centre/forward Nathan Jawai was unable to play because of a groin strain, suffered three weeks ago during draft workouts.
team officials are hoping that he will be ready [...]
Linkage – July 7
Think we’ll get official word on Hassam Adams and his two-year, minimum-value deal today, believe it’ll be finally time to officially unveil Matt Devlin as the new play-by-play guy on Tuesday and then the big day with both Jermaine O’Neal and Jose allegedly coming to town on Wednesday to do all kinds of fun stuff, [...]
Linkage – July 3
Okay, let’s get to this whole mid-level exception obsession that’s running rampant and throw cold water on any of the Corey Maggette, Mickeal Pietrus, Ron Artest, James Posey, I don’t know who else stuff that’s out there.
Every team that’s over the salary cap, as the Raptors are, can make use of the mid-level exception every [...]
Linkage – July 2
According to sources, 2005 second-round pick Roko Ukic, a 24-year-old, 6-foot-5 Croatian who can play either guard spot, will come over from Rome to back up Calderon, while the team will also add hard-nosed swingman Hassan Adams, to back up Anthony Parker and Jamario Moon.
Adams, a 6-foot-4, late second-round selection by the New Jersey Nets [...]
Linkage – June 29
The Heat doesn’t need someone taking shots away from Wade; it needs someone to make those shots easier to create.
Enter Bosh, the lithe-but-crafty Olympic power forward who happens to have the same agent as Wade.
That’s what makes last week’s other noteworthy trade of a veteran so significant.
In rolling the dice on Jermaine O’Neal, the Raptors [...]
Linkage – June 28
In the wake of a rather uneventful NBA draft day 2008 for your Raptors, we take a closer look at the only addition the day brought to the team.
Down Under they call him Baby Shaq or Aussie Shaq but make no mistake, outside of his size and perhaps slight resemblance to the Phoenix Suns centre, [...]
Linkage – June 27
The Raptors selected Roy Hibbert with their No. 17 pick, but were actually selecting the seven-foot-two centre from Georgetown will head to Indiana as part of a trade agreed to in principle on the eve of the draft.
The Raptors will acquire six-time all-star Jermaine O’Neal and Indiana’s 41st pick in the draft in exchange for [...]
Linkage – June 26
Respected NBA writer Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports let the cat out of the bag late yesterday afternoon, reporting the deal had been completed in principle. Pending physicals, it will send Ford, centre Rasho Nesterovic, the Raptors’ pick in tonight’s draft (17th overall) and another warm body to Indiana (to make the financials work) in [...]
Linkage – June 25
Yesterday, chatter out of Greece suggested club team Olympiakos was prepared to offer Raptors starter and Euroleague legend Anthony Parker a lucrative deal believed to be worth $21 million US over three years to leave. Parker is under contract with the Raptors for another year at $4.5 million.
Now comes word that Carlos Delfino, who averaged [...]
Linkage – June 24
Even members of that Raptors front office admit to being somewhat dazzled by all the bodies that have passed through the Air Canada Centre in the past few weeks of draft prep.
GM Bryan Colangelo, the man who will have the final say, is not talking these days and is not expected to break his silence [...]
