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“I was most impressed with his preparation and the work he put into this leading up to the practices and competition,” Colangelo said of Bosh, who was on the court with Chris Paul, Dwyane Wade, Kobe Bryant and LeBron James in the tense, dying minutes of the gold-medal win over Spain sans Calderon. “I’m really [...]

Bryan Colangelo, president and general manager of the Toronto Raptors, is asked about Chris Bosh’s performance in the men’s Olympic basketball tournament and suddenly he is excited. A twinkle enters his eye and he is ready to share some scuttlebutt floating around the U.S. basketball team about his prized forward and franchise player.
Once again, Bosh [...]

Speaking of Jose, he’s to have an MRI late today here (or just a while ago depending on when I get this blog posted) and I’m told by Someone Who’d Know that he won’t step on the court for Friday’s semifinal against Argentina unless he’s 100 per cent. He’s given his word to the Raptor [...]

“I don’t think too many people really look forward to going to training camp,” Moon said yesterday in Mississauga, where he and Anthony Parker were participating in the Direct Energy Driveway Challenge, a glorified pick-up game at the house of a contest winner.
“But when we made the acquisition [of ] Jermaine O’Neal, I was like, [...]

Delfino, who averaged career highs in points (9.0) and rebounds (4.4) last season for Toronto, likely will not return, even though he received a qualifying offer from the club last month. Delfino is a restricted free agent, meaning that Toronto would have the right to match any offer he receives. But the Raptors are unlikely [...]

We were talking to Chris Douglas-Roberts about his workout next to Brandon Rush and Bill Walker and how it was pretty competitive. Strange, these days, ‘cause a lot of agents like to hide their kids in workouts, put them up against stiffs or second-rounders. Not so with these guys.
And when I suggested to Douglas-Roberts that [...]

The market for T.J. Ford is heating up.
Though neither Toronto president/general manager Bryan Colangelo or anybody else would go into details about the subject yesterday after six prospects were put through the paces ahead of the upcoming NBA draft, it was clear that the club has received genuine interest from a handful of teams [...]

No, I don’t think Richard Jefferson allegedly getting into a scrap in a Minneapolis bar last January makes him any less desireable to the Raptors, who will probably have him on the list of players they’d think about trading for.

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"I think we learned a lesson from the last game (Monday) against the (San Antonio) Spurs," said Jose Calderon, recalling a horrific start that cost the Raptors any chance to beat the defending champs earlier this week. "We just came out and played hard from the first minute. That’s what we have to do every [...]

The first Canadian to be a head coach in an NBA game took it just as the stereotype would suggest: Nothing to get too excited about, it’s not about me, one game in 82.
In essence, Jay Triano, who will stand in for head coach Sam Mitchell when the Raptors take on the New Jersey Nets [...]