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Post-Game Report Card: Raptors Lose To Knicks Two Nights In A Row

It’s two losses in two nights for the Toronto Raptors against the New York Knicks, which brings the season series for both clubs to two games a piece. After losing to the Knicks at home 94-99 yesterday, the Raptors once against fall in New York, this time 110-84. Ouch. It definitely didn’t help that Rudy Gay … Read more

Game Day Preview: Raptors Attempt to Win Season Series vs. the Knicks

Last night, the Toronto Raptors (26-43) failed to make it three wins in a row against the New York Knicks (41-26). After dropping Friday’s game at home the Raptors have fallen to 3-10 against Atlantic division rivals, with two of those wins against the Knicks. Tonight the Raptors head into New York for the second game … Read more

Game Day Preview: The Toronto Raptors Look To Make It Three In A Row

Tonight, the Toronto Raptors (26-42) look to make it three straight wins against the current 3rd seed in the conference, New York Knicks (40-26) at home in the ACC. The last time the Knicks were at the ACC, the Raptors ran away with a two point win, as Rudy Gay and Carmelo Anthony went at … Read more

DeMar DeRozan Is Finally Growing Up

A young kid from Compton, California decides to enter the NBA draft, as he leaves after one year with the University of South California (USC). The Toronto Raptors have selected, DeMar DeRozan. He’s a young fella, only 19 years of age, but has tremendous upside, extremely athletic, but raw. That kid we once knew has … Read more

Game Day Preview: Toronto Raptors Look To Take The Season Series Over The Bobcats

Coming off a tough loss to the Miami Heat, the Toronto Raptors (26-41) look to bounce back against the Charlotte Bobcats (15-52), as they hope to take the season series. Toronto won last week’s bout 92-78, as they were lead by Rudy Gay, with 28 points on an efficient 11-16 shooting, and Amir Johnson adding … Read more

Can Amir Johnson Be a Starter for Long-term Success of the Raptors?

At the beginning of the season, raising the question as to whether Amir Johnson could be the starting power-forward for the Toronto Raptors would have been absolutely unfathomable. Amir has bounced in and out of the starting line-up all season replacing the likes of injured bigs ahead of him in the rotation like Andrea Bargnani or … Read more

Let My People Go: The Raptor Rookies

Lets face it people, the playoffs are no longer real for the Toronto Raptors. Even the extreme optimists out there, who refuse to lose hope until the Raptors are mathematically eliminated, understand this fact. Blowing this last stretch of games where the Raps could’ve easily gained ground on the 8th seed removed any hope of … Read more

Evaluating The Rest Of The Toronto Raptors’ Season

No draft pick. No playoffs. Ouch. 25-40 is good enough for the ninth seed in the Eastern conference (at the time of the writing of this article) and that is exactly where the Toronto Raptors currently sit, unfortunately. Raptors fans were hoping for a late season playoff push with the acquisition of Rudy Gay on … Read more

Post Game: Raps Fall, As Struggles Continue At TD Garden

Having not being able to beat the Boston Celtics in TD Garden since 2008, the Toronto Raptors failed to do so once again tonight, as they got slaughtered by a score of 88-112 It was a rather discouraging night for the Raptors, as nothing went right for them tonight. While they were within striking distance … Read more

Toronto Raptors Weekly Rap: Average Is The New Awesome

This past week was fairly average, but the Toronto Raptors would definitely take a .500 record over nothing. Starting off with an entertaining game – unfortunately a loss – you were able to see some of the bests of Andrea Bargnani – likely his best game all season – and Rudy Gay against the Golden … Read more