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Oct 23, 2019
2 min

2019-20 Breakout Player Series: O.G. Anunoby

Indiana University Athletics After a very promising rookie campaign with the Toronto Raptors, O.G. Anunoby’s second season left a lot to be desired. Kawhi Leonard did bump Anunoby in the depth chart, which certainly didn’t help. His sophomore slump was understandable. In 67 games, O.G. shot 45.3 percent from the field including 33.2 percent from three on 3.0 attempts per game. He averaged 7.0 points, 2.9 rebounds, 0.7 assists and 0.7 steals in 20.2 minutes per game. Born in L

Raptors vs Pelicans Opening Night: Toronto Takeaways

Tim Hanna

Oct 23, 2019
2 min

Raptors vs Pelicans Opening Night: Toronto Takeaways

Toronto Star Last night the defending champion Toronto Raptors kicked of the 2019-2020 season hosting the New Orleans Pelicans. When the schedules were announced, this game was circled on many fans calendars. Many fans around the league were excited to see the NBA debut of Zion Williamson. Unfortunately, Zion suffered a knee injury earlier this week and will be sidelined for six to eight weeks. Brandon Ingram started for New Orleans in Williamson’s absence. The Raptors chose

Who Will Be First Time All-Stars In 2019-20?

Matt Esposito

Oct 18, 2019
4 min

Who Will Be First Time All-Stars In 2019-20?

SB Nation Ah, yes, I remember my first time. If you just read that opening sentence, it means that my editors are doing one of two things. Option A: I have worn them down so much that they just decided to let me run rampant with these blogs. Option B: Someone isn't doing their job. Regardless, let's jump head first into the discussion. Which players can reach their first All-Star game this year? The best way to approach this is to consider who may not be participating in the

The Top 50 NBA Players Entering the 2019-20 Season: 35-31

Jac Manuell/Kory Waldron

Sep 28, 2019
2 min

The Top 50 NBA Players Entering the 2019-20 Season: 35-31

35. Kyle Lowry 2018-2019 Season Stats: 14.2 PPG 4.8 RPG 8.7 APG 1.4 STLS PER: 16.5 TS%: 56.2% WS: 6.6 - 41/35/83 Lowry had the best postseason of his career and cemented himself as maybe the greatest Raptor of all-time. He may be hitting the twilight years of his career but his skills should age well. He’s incredibly intelligent, a great defender and charge drawer, an above average shooter and a solid playmaker. Lowry will be forced to step up in the absence of Kawhi. Don’t b

Khaleel Abdullah/Matt Esposito/William Jackson

Aug 28, 2019
4 min

2017 NBA Re-Draft: Part 1

Complex Pick 30: Los Angeles Lakers - Frank Ntilikina (Original pick: Josh Hart) The last (first round) pick of the Phil Jackson era in New York has not been great. Defensively is where his game shines, but his career 5.9 PPG on 35% shooting is horrendous. To restart his NBA career, why not put him in L.A. to get some bench minutes while backing up Fox. Pick 29: San Antonio Spurs - Markelle Fultz (Original pick: Derrick White) Let’s have fun. Fultz has not lived up to the hyp

The 5 NBA Coaches With the Most to Prove This Season

Cameron Tabatabaie

Aug 25, 2019
4 min

The 5 NBA Coaches With the Most to Prove This Season

@Raptors/Twitter The NBA head coach scene, for the moment, is rather tame. This summer didn’t see all that much in the way of coaching turnover, certainly not in comparison to the epic amount of player movement and roster overhauls. Still water runs deep, however. With so many changes and so many teams in contention this upcoming season, there will be plenty of NBA coaches facing enormous pressure to produce. Frank Vogel USA TODAY Sports No surprises here; coaching LeBron Jam

Hot Take Marathon: Brooklyn Will Finish the Season With the 3rd Seed

Jac Manuell

Aug 21, 2019
3 min

Hot Take Marathon: Brooklyn Will Finish the Season With the 3rd Seed

ABC7 Eyewitness News There are innumerable national pundits that are strangely low on the 2019-20 Nets. It’s not as if the Eastern Conference improved markedly, in fact if anything the stranglehold up top strengthened while the rest of the teams underneath would give themselves a decent shot at making some noise for a top-four seed. Milwaukee and Philadelphia are in a tier of their own at the top of the East. From there, there are up to seven teams who are vying for status as

Hot Take Marathon: Time to Blow Up The Raptors

Cameron Tabatabaie

Aug 18, 2019
2 min

Hot Take Marathon: Time to Blow Up The Raptors

USA TODAY Sports After a dizzying NBA offseason, it’s easy to forget that the Toronto Raptors are still NBA Champions. And they’ll hold that distinction for another ten months. The team and the fans deserve to revel in that glory. That said, president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri would be wise to sell-high on his championship core and break up the band. It’s time to blow up the Raptors. There are two main principles driving this conviction. The first is rather obvious

5 Players We Can All Root for Next Season

Cameron Tabatabaie

Aug 14, 2019
5 min

5 Players We Can All Root for Next Season

5 players we can all root for next season Toronto Star The 2019-20 season is coming into focus. We know all the story lines. We know who the favorites are. We even know the most exciting tilts on the schedule. Lost in all of these headlines, however, are the many personalities and struggles that make NBA basketball so human. The league needs its stars and its villains, and somewhere in between are the players we all universally root for. Here’s who we all ought to collectivel

2019-20 NBA Schedule: The Worst Games of the Season

Gus Saltonstall

Aug 13, 2019
4 min

2019-20 NBA Schedule: The Worst Games of the Season

Detroit Bad Boys The NBA just released the official schedule for the 2019-20 season. Already articles from OTG, ESPN, Bleacher Report, and many others have released enticing works on the best matchups of the coming season. Plenty of information is available on such story lines as the Christmas slate of games, and which team has to travel the longest distance during their campaign. There’s importance in knowing when the first time the new look Los Angeles team’s duke it out ag

2019-20 NBA Schedule: 10 Must-Watch Games

William Jackson

Aug 13, 2019
4 min

2019-20 NBA Schedule: 10 Must-Watch Games

Finally! We know the schedules of all 30 teams for the 74th NBA season, and there are plenty of storylines to follow. From the return of Russell Westbrook to the debut of Zion Williamson, here are the top 10 games that you must tune into this season. 10. Golden State Warriors at Toronto Raptors; March 16th, 2020 Sports Illustrated A rematch of the NBA Finals is always going to be a must watch game, despite Kawhi not playing in this one. Steph Curry, Draymond Green and D'Angel

Marquist Parker

Jul 25, 2019
4 min

Top 10 Atlantic Division Players

NBA - NBC Sports The Atlantic Division has seen a large amount of turnaround this summer. While the division lost Kawhi Leonard, it's the best player, it still has a large amount of talent still there. Who's the new best player? Let's take a look: 10. Julius Randle- New York Knicks Bleacher Report The newly-signed Knicks forward is coming off his best season as a pro. His 21 points a game last season was a career-high and he was rewarded with a 3-year deal from a Knicks team

Gus Saltonstall

Jun 19, 2019
11 min

Best Fan Moments of the 2019 Playoffs

USA Today With the NBA postseason now behind us it seems like the right time to reflect on the spectacle of the 2018-19 playoffs, before the memories of the earlier rounds and the greatness of the Finals fade away into free agency and the start of next season. The Toronto Raptors are the champions of the world. The Golden State Warriors quest to win four out of five was ended by a strong Toronto team, a myriad of injuries, and inconsistencies on the defensive end. At the end

Jorge Cantu

Jun 17, 2019
3 min

2019 NBA Free Agents: Danny Green

Chris Young/AP Photo Overview: After winning a championship in 2015 with the San Antonio Spurs, Danny Green had three straight lackluster seasons where he wasn’t playing like his previous self. Traded alongside Kawhi Leonard, Green got a fresh start in Toronto and once again became one of the elite 3-and-D players in the league. Regular Season Stats: 10.3 points, 4.0 rebounds, 1.6 assists, 0.9 steals, 0.7 blocks, and 0.9 turnovers on 46.5 FG%, 45.5 3PFG%, and 84.1 FT%. Postse

Nikola Cuvalo

Jun 12, 2019
4 min

2019 NBA Finals: 5 Thoughts on Game 5

Courtesy of Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP 1. The Warriors are, undeniably, a much better team with Durant (game-high +6) on the court; likely, the most talented squad ever assembled. When Kevin Durant was on the floor for those precious 12 minutes, he was simply electric, hitting all of his attempts from beyond the arc - often in the spite of Klaw-sized mitts and tight defense. His presence was a jolting reminder that these are not the unbeatable, fabled Warriors of y

Nathan Sherman

Jun 10, 2019
3 min

2019 NBA Finals: Game 5 Preview

Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via GettyImages The Toronto Raptors are one win away from an NBA Championship. Let's take a moment to appreciate the magnitude of that statement... This is a team that went through a complete facelift to start the season. Their current starting lineup only played 161 minutes together during the regular season, and they have already more than doubled that total this postseason at 362 minutes. The Raptors came into the Playoffs with a bit of a learning

Gus Saltonstall

Jun 8, 2019
4 min

2019 NBA Finals: 5 Thoughts on Game 4

NBA.com The Toronto Raptors triumphed against the Golden State Warriors 105-92 in Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Friday night. The Raptors team surprised most of the NBA community by winning both games in the Oracle, and now are in full control of the series at 3-1. With the contest going back to Toronto, the Raptors have a golden chance at ending the Warriors dynasty in front of their home ground. Kawhi Leonard was again a star in Game 4 of the series, but here some of the othe

Kyle Russell

Jun 7, 2019
3 min

2019 NBA Finals: 5 Thoughts on Game 3

Courtesy of Inquirer Sports. Hours before Game 3, Steve Kerr announced both Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson would be unavailable, unable to play in a perhaps a pivotal battle in the greater war that is the 2018/2019 NBA Finals. A golden opportunity was there for the Toronto Raptors to go up 2-1 in the series, and they seized it, holding the Golden State Warriors at arms-length, stiff-arming the defending champs en route to a win. Here are a few thoughts from their victory. 1.

Nathan Sherman

Jun 7, 2019
3 min

2019 NBA Finals: Game 4 Preview

ABC15 Arizona Before we get into Game 4, let's take a look back at how the Toronto Raptors emerged victorious in Game 3 and took a 2-1 series lead. The Golden State Warriors entered Game 3 without Kevin Durant, Klay Thompson, and Kevon Looney. Those are arguably three of their best six players, and they were missed sorely. Without much scoring around him, Steph Curry put up a career playoff high 47-points on 14/31 shooting including 6/14 from three. He also added eight reboun

Nathan Sherman

Jun 5, 2019
7 min

2019 NBA Finals: Game 3 Preview

Courtesy of the Toronto Star. Before taking the dive and making some predictions for Game 3, it might be prudent to reflect on some of the results of Game 2. Conventional basketball wisdom tends to say that each game in the Finals is a unique entity, but in some cases, momentum can indeed bleed over and certain habits may be uncovered. The Golden State Warriors eeked out a 109-104 win in Game 2, but this victory didn’t come without consequence. Klay Thompson left the game in