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The changes will also mean a different look on offense for the Raptors as well. Mitchell has said he has been studying tapes of the Spurs with Ducan and Robinson for ideas in how to do some of the same things with Bosh and O’Neal. The Raptors mode of attack should change and should be [...]

Bosh, a three-time NBA All-Star for the Toronto Raptors, doesn’t have the same name recognition as the other All-Stars. If his standout play continues, Bosh could go from a star to a superstar this summer. “I’m just a quiet dude on the team,” he says.
- USA Today 
The Toronto Raptors made a notable maneuver this off [...]

Starting Monday, former Niagara basketball coach Jack Armstrong will host a daily show on “the Fan” 590 from 2 to 4 p. m. with Doug MacLean, the former Columbus Blue Jackets coach and general manager. Armstrong replaces Chuck Swirsky, the former Toronto Raptors play-by-play man who left the area to become the voice of the [...]

Roko? He looked all right against Lithuania, nothing spectacular. I wonder about his foot speed and his handle (he looked like he was carrying the ball every time he dribbled it and that might work in Europe but it probably won’t in the NBA) but he looked solid.
He made a couple of great drives on [...]

He’s learned a thing or two about himself and basketball, too.
“That I can play defence,” he said after the United States trounced Greece 92-69 last night. “I know I’m digging a hole for myself with the Raptors and everything because the expectations are going to be there.
“I can play defence and I can play a [...]

Point guard Jose Manuel Calderon said the team was responding to a request from the photographer.
“We felt it was something appropriate, and that it would be interpreted as an affectionate gesture,” Calderon, who plays for NBA’s Toronto Raptors, wrote on his ElMundo.es blog. “Without a doubt, some … press didn’t see it that way.”
- Daily [...]

I would like to say that the Chinese played a great game, if they are capable to play like this, they are going to go far. They were very aggressive on defense and on offense they were able to break us on 1 x 1 and they were assertive on their outside shots. They have [...]

The Indiana Pacers traded Jermaine O’Neal and the rights to draft choice Nathan Jawai to the Toronto Raptors for T.J. Ford, Rasho Nesterovic, Maceo Baston and the rights to Roy Hibbert. Finally, the Pacers realized it was better now than never with J.O., who at the age of 29 had his lowest numbers in seven [...]

The acquisition of Jermaine O’Neal is an interesting one.  When he says he’s here to support the team and help them win, I hope he means it.  When I heard Ray Allen and KG say the same things last year, I heard voices in my head saying “BS, BS, BS”.  Those voices were wrong.
As the [...]

His hometown notwithstanding, Canucks could do a lot worse than pulling for the likable Bosh, whose multifaceted game could make him a star for the U.S. team at his first Olympics.
“He’s the perfect international player,” Leo Rautins, a Raptors colour man and the head coach of Canada’s ill-fated national team, told CBCSports.ca. “He’s inside, outside, [...]