After suffering through injury issues the last few seasons, DeMarre Carroll is healthy again and playing a big role for a slightly better than anticipated Nets team. As a versatile defender who can effectively guard a 3 or 4 and provide some scoring and spacing, Carroll is the perfect veteran piece to add to a [...]
February 5, 2018
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DeMarre Carroll has turned into an asset the Brooklyn Nets plan on keeping…for now. The team acquired the 31-year-old wing from the Toronto Raptors over the summer in what was strictly a salary dump for the latter. Carroll is owed a total of $30.2 million this season and next, a bill few teams wanted to [...]
January 29, 2018
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There are only eight games left during the Toronto Raptors 2015-16 regular season, and DeMarre Carroll, who hasn’t played since Jan. 3 as he recovers from knee surgery, hopes to play in one of them. Here’s what he told Raptors.com’s Holly MacKenzie : “I understand there’s been a lot of speculation, a lot of assumptions [...]
March 31, 2016
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There isn’t much good news coming out of Toronto on the injury front. According to Toronto Sun Beat Writer Ryan Wolstat, there is legitimate concern about Kyle Lowry’s elbow. An injury he initially suffered in London against the Magic back in January and re-aggravated it against the Magic on March 20. It has been affecting [...]
March 29, 2016
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It’s not all that hard to figure out why DeMarre Carroll signed with the Toronto Raptors. It had to be because they offered him the most money ($60 million), right? Possibly. But it also could have been because they were the first ones to offer him any money at all. Carroll took some time to [...]
November 13, 2015
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Surely the Toronto Raptors won’t trade Jonas Valanciunas. Or, you know, maybe they will. Valencianas has been one of the more polarizing trade-rumor magnets over the last couple years. He can be a ball-stopper, doesn’t pass enough and isn’t you’re typical modern-day big man in that he seldom shoots outside 10 feet of the basket. [...]
October 21, 2015
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What if we’ve already seen the last of the 60-win Atlanta Hawks? It’s a crude thought. The East is still wide open after you account for LeBron James’ Cleveland Cavaliers, and the Hawks aren’t the blow-shit-up type. They will also have ample spending power if all goes according to plan and could, in theory, add [...]
June 15, 2015
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Signature basketball sneakers are usually the most popular, so it isn’t uncommon to see a player wearing kicks made with one of their NBA co-workers name on them. But what happens when your team is playing the team and you’re wearing the shoe of your opponent? This is the dilemma that DeMarre Carroll of the [...]