After the Toronto Raptors win last night, I didn’t feel excited. All I felt was slight relief. Game 1 had my head spinning, emotions churning, and made me question my loyalty to this franchise, and sports in general. It felt like it was happening all over again. But, last night, the Raptors played like they should, taking down the Indiana … Read more
The Toronto Raptors defeat the Indiana Pacers, 98-87, tying the series at one game a piece. You can breathe now, Raptors fans…at least until Thursday. Jonas Valanciunas led the team to a much-needed victory, earning another double-double: scoring 23 points and grabbing 15 rebounds. DeMar DeRozan continued to struggle from the field, scoring 10 points on 5-18 shooting. Coach Dwane … Read more
Game 2 in this series almost feels like a Game 7 for the Toronto Raptors. Four quarters of bad basketball in Game 1 resulted in a 10 point loss to the Indiana Pacers and the Raptors giving up home court advantage. Without a strong showing and a much needed win tonight, the psychologically frail Toronto team may … Read more
The beautiful sun shined upon Jurassic Park as the Toronto Raptors opened up yet another post-season at home against the seventh seeded Indiana Pacers. Unfortunately the tears of joy quickly turned to pain as the Raptors dropped a seventh consecutive Playoff game, 100-90. Paul George had 33 points after averaging just 16 points a game against … Read more
It’s the most wonderful time of the year and the Toronto Raptors are back in the playoffs. Even with the second seed, the Raptors are using whatever fuel they can get to help propel them past the Indiana Pacers into the second round. For a more detailed analysis on what to expect from the series check out … Read more
The Toronto Raptors will start their first seven game series of the 2016 playoffs against the Indiana Pacers. After a historic season for the Raptors, finishing with the second best record (56-26) in the Eastern Conference, they’ll be playing the seventh seed (45-37) Indiana Pacers. Without a second round playoff appearance since the 2002 playoffs, … Read more
In a somewhat meaningless game the Toronto Raptors beat the Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday night in one last regular season show at home before the playoffs. Norman Powell logged close to 40 minutes yet again and led his team with 18 points as every Raptor who played in this game recorded a point and seven … Read more
The Toronto Raptors close out their last home game of the season against the Philadelphia 76ers, which is also the first of a back-to-back that will end off with the Brooklyn Nets tomorrow evening. The Raptors (54-26), waiting to see who their opponent will be come playoff time, are using these final games for tuneups and to … Read more
The Toronto Raptors beat the New York Knicks 93-89 on Sunday Night in a game that was a lot closer than it should have been. DeMar DeRozan led the way with 27 points, while Kyle Lowry was 4 of 7 from downtown where he scored 12 of his 15 points. On the other side, Carmelo … Read more
The Toronto Raptors will travel to New York to take on the Knicks. As we know, the Knicks are an abysmal team sitting at 32-48. The Raps are 53-26 – yes you read that right. There is actually implications with winning this game as the Raptors own the worse of the Knicks/Nuggets pick from the Bargnani trade, so it is in … Read more
