The AltRaps Blog

According to league sources, Toronto has had talks with the Indiana Pacers about acquiring 29-year-old Jermaine O’Neal for a package that would include T.J. Ford, Rasho Nestervoic and, perhaps, the 17th pick in this week’s draft.
The talks are not the point where any deal is imminent and a deal is certainly not assured but the [...]

Robin Lopez, who averaged 10 points and five rebounds last season, embraces his role as a defensive stopper. He had 156 blocks in two seasons at Stanford, giving him the school’s second-best career total. The center pulled down double-digit rebounds in four games.
He is projected to go mid to late first round, and has worked [...]

The Toronto Raptors extended qualifying offers to restricted free agents Jose Calderon and Carlos Delfino on Friday.
The move allows the Raptors to retain their right to match any offers the guards receive from other teams when free agency opens in July.
- Globe and Mail
Also a few emailers were eager to point out a rumour coming [...]

A Diaw trade possibility involved Toronto, where talk centered on Diaw leaving for point guard T.J. Ford and the Raptors’ No. 17 pick in Thursday’s draft. Talks cooled but might reignite with Porter aboard. In Porter’s first season as Milwaukee’s head coach, Ford helped the Bucks to a 41-41 playoff season. When Ford missed the [...]

Sure, a broad question and one that could never be answered. But then we never thought we would be a .500 team this year, did we…
What we’ve done is come up with a knock-out bracket of Raptor players with the intention of crowning one player as the “best”. Up to you what that means: best, [...]

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 [...]

Raptors fans may recall the draft-day trade that brought Vinsanity to Hogtown and landed the then-penny pinching franchise its own practice court.
The word in the days leading up to draft day in Vancouver was a few Toronto officials had pegged Pierce.
The problem, as revealed later, was that Pierce refused to play in Toronto at a [...]

I am sure there are many players coming out of college that hope they don’t get chosen by the Raptors just because of going to a new country and everything that comes of it.
Living in Canada I find it hard to understand but at the same time if I got a call tomorrow to go [...]

A pair of no-shows took the lustre off the Raptors’ workout of potential draft picks yesterday at the Air Canada Centre.
With Darrell Arthur, a 6-foot-9 forward from Kansas, and David Padgett, a 6-foot-11 centre out of Louisville, unable to attend, the workout consisted mostly of second-round prospects.
The best of the lot appeared to be guard [...]

The Raptors will not have a chance to work out draft prospect Darrell Arthur today.
The Kansas power forward, citing a hamstring injury, has pulled out of a scheduled workout at the Air Canada Centre this morning.
Arthur was the only one of six players who will be in town to work out who had a legitimate [...]