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There was about four minutes left in the first quarter when Jorge Garbajosa rose, doffed his warmup suit and took a step onto a basketball court at the Olympics.
He did nothing outwardly special to mark the moment but in his heart and his mind, he knew how special it was.
The one-time Raptor, whose career was [...]

“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, [...]

Just over a month after his release from the Toronto Raptors, forward Jorge Garbajosa officially found his new home Thursday.
Russian Basketball Super League power BC Khimki announced the signing of Garbajosa to a two-year contract, ending a tumultuous two-year stretch for the 6-9, 245-pound Spaniard.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
With BC Khimki, Garbajosa [...]

Raptors president and GM Bryan Colangelo announced six front-office promotions yesterday, including Maurizio Gherardini, who moves from VP and assistant GM to senior VP of basketball operations.
Marc Eversley (formerly director of basketball operations) has been promoted to assistant GM of player development.
Masai Ujiri (formerly director of global scouting) has been promoted to assistant GM of [...]

Now Khimki BC, a team from Russia, signed Carlos Delfino this week, leaving the Toronto Raptors for a nearly 3 million euros annually.
One expert on the matter says that equates to an NBA salary of more than $9 million when you factor in the exchange rate and the tax money Delfino won’t have to give [...]

Yesterday, Colangelo signed forward/centre Nathan Jawai to a two-year contract. The Raptors acquired the draft rights to Jawai from the Indiana Pacers. He was the 41st overall selection in this year’s draft.
Colangelo also expanded the coaching staff, hiring Canadian born Gordon Herbert as an assistant in charge of player development.
Herbert, a native of Penticton, B.C., [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]