Raptors

As the Los Angeles Clippers’ season continues to slip away, so, too, does the hope that they’ll finish the year with DeAndre Jordan on the roster. Perhaps that isn’t the prevailing sentiment within the organization, but rival squads definitely smell blood in the water, and they’re coming for the 29-year-old shot-blocker and rim-runner—four to be [...]

In the early 2000s Post-Jordan era of the NBA (a dark period for the NBA in retrospect) there were few more electrifying players or exciting synonymous images of period than Vince Carter in a Raptors jersey. Vinsanity helped establish NBA basketball north of the U.S. border and averaged 23-5-4 in seven seasons as a Raptor, [...]

Kyle Lowry isn’t having a good year. He doesn’t look like himself. He’s averaging just 11.9 points per game, his lowest total since 2012-13. He’s shooting 37.6 percent from the floor, the second-worst mark of his career. His three-point percentage has dropped from 41.2 percent in 2016-17, to 32.7 percent this year. So what gives? [...]

Before re-signing with the Toronto Raptors on a three-year, $100 million deal over the summer, Kyle Lowry showed some love for the San Antonio Spurs. They did not reciprocate. From the San Antonio-Express News‘ Jabari Young: But one of the many NBA rumors floating around over the offseason was Lowry, a free agent at the time, [...]

Norman Powell has been a pleasant surprise for the Toronto Raptors in the 2nd round of the 2015 NBA Draft. He is a solid athlete with the capability of knocking down a corner three and provides good depth for the Raptors on the wing, the team is rewarding him for it with a four-year, $42 [...]

DeMar DeRozan has developed himself into one of the best 25 players in the NBA and one of the NBA’s three best shooting guards over the past few years by utilizing his elite athletic gifts and mid-range game to get to the free throw line at will and become a top notch scorer in the [...]

Watch out, Kyle Lowry. DeMar DeRozan is coming for your job. Not really, of course. But the Toronto Raptors do have plans to slot DeRozan at point guard more in 2017-18. As head coach Dwane Casey told The Andrew Walker Show on Sportsnet 590 The FAN (via Sportsnet) “We got to have a better mentality of [...]

Jonas Valanciunas has three years and $49.6 million left on his current contract, and the Toronto Raptors really don’t want to be the team bankrolling it anymore. According the Sporting News’ Sean Deveney, the Raptors have tried relentlessly, and unsuccessfully, to trade Valanciunas since February as they seek to reinvent their identity: Toronto has sought [...]

DeMarre Carroll is excited to be joining the Brooklyn Nets. Or rather, he’s at least happy to be leaving the Toronto Raptors. In a candid interview with the Toronto Sun‘s Ryan Wolstat, Carroll expressed that he expected more out of his two-tenure with the Raptors: I wasn’t surprised because I knew it was a lot of [...]

Why get fleeced in trades by Masai Ujiri when you can employ him yourself? This is the line of logic apparently being deployed by New York Knicks owner James Dolan as he begins his search for a Phil Jackson replacement, according to The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski: [tweet https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/880045376392355841] Ujiri is a sound target in a [...]