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In the end, the Raptors came up short by going small.
In one of those typical NBA games that aren’t decided until the final two frenetic minutes, both the host Raptors and visiting Wizards went small, spreading the floor and trying to essentially out-jump shoot each other.
It made for some dramatic and entertaining moments, [...]

Mitchell, who is as likely to give any one game more credence than the next as he is to be found shouting the media’s praises from a tall building, broke his own rule yesterday when he admitted that the club’s final three games before the all-star break — against Minnesota, San Antonio and New Jersey [...]

"Wayne Embry taught me," Mitchell said yesterday. "He said, `Your job is to coach the players that you have. You don’t need to be in the general manager’s office every day bitching and complaining about players, because if you start doing that, the next thing they’re going to do is start looking at you.’
"I don’t [...]

Afterwards I asked Calderon what Mitchell used to called him.
“I cannot say that for the media,” he said in his thick Spanish accent. “It was ‘beeeeep rook.’” He made a long beeping noise to emphasize the abundance of syllables.
“In the beginning it was tough, because, you know, we didn’t win many games,” Calderon said. “He [...]

"I saw [Garnett] try and deny [Bosh] the ball," Calderon said. "So I knew it was my opportunity to turn the corner, so I go all the way."
Count the basket. Count the clutch free throw, too. And count the Raptors’ first win in four tries — five if you count an exhibition-season loss in Rome [...]

Raptors coach off hot seat, on solid bench - cleveland.com
“There was nothing I could do about it,” Mitchell said after practice here on Friday. “The only thing I could do was walk into the arena, and if I didn’t have a message ‘Come see me,’ from the principal’s office, I knew I had a job [...]

TheStar.com | Sports | Raps’ consiglieri Embry gets contract extension
The senior basketball advisor to the Raptors has agreed to a contract extension with the team that will keep him as the eminence grise of the Toronto franchise through the 2009-10 season.
Embry, a basketball hall of famer, first joined the Raptors in 2004 as an advisor [...]