The AltRaps Blog

Early this morning, through my agents, I reached a preliminary agreement with the Toronto Raptors. I want to thank Bryan Colangelo, Maurizio Gherardini, Sam Mitchell and all of the Raptors family for the confidence that they have placed in me. I am sure that together we are going to achieve big things in the future.
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Dear Homey,
I am mere hours away from being free agent. I think Lakers are looking at me to come be big man behind that guy who always gets hurt. I pray tonight that they call agent. L.A. would be bomb diggity. I would hang with all my peeps. Ice-T, Kool Moe Dee, Whodini. It [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Jorge Garbajosa and the Raptors have officially parted company.
The Raptors reached an agreement to buy out the contract of Garbajosa, the Spanish forward whose career in Toronto was cut short by a serious leg injury.
“After a long, difficult and sometimes emotional process stemming from a traumatic injury to a key player, it was concluded that [...]

Jorge Garbajosa may have played his last game for the Raptors.
According to Spanish media reports, the Raptors are trying negotiate a buyout of the final year of Garbajosa’s contract, worth $4.35 million US.
Earlier this week, Spanish national team coach Aito Garcia Reneses included Garbajosa in his pool of players for the 2008 Beijing Olympic team.
Colangelo [...]

The Raptors may be a good fit for Robin Lopez as many of the Raptors bigger guys have a more perimeter oriented focus. Lopez could be that guy who gets the tough rebounds and make penetrators think twice about coming down the lane. People like Chris Bosh, T.J. Ford and Jason Kapano have been great [...]

Talking to Bryan last week, he says they’re planning another of those free-agent, pre-draft camps here that yielded them Moon a year ago.

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Now, had a couple of requests for a “report card” on the players, coaches and season. I generally don’t like them – they are far too subjective – but what the heck. I’ll put grades on but they will be based on a player’s ability, not against the rest of the league. A ‘C’ is [...]

Bargnani - in an odd way, when I think of Bargnani, I think of that kid in phys ed that, when teams were being chosen, was picked third or fourth on physical appearance alone. You’ve seen him walking around the school, all awkward and friendless, but you think he has some size, so maybe he [...]