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On Monday the Raptors offered the uninvited fans and bloggers a chance to participate in Media Day via a "Live Chat" on Raptors.com.á Starting at about 12:30pm and running until 3pm. Perhaps the high point of the Toronto Raptors Media Day Live Chat was when the Raptors Moderator, Jay Satur, filling in time between guests made his call for the number of wins fans should be expecting from this ...

Quincy Douby was signed by the Raptors on Mar. 24, 2009 to a 10-day contract.á On Apr. 3, Douby signed for a second 10 days, which was eventually extended to include the 2009-10 season.á It appears shooting 44.4 percent from three gets you a second look! A 6Æ3ö 175lb star shooting guard from Rutgers, Douby was drafted 19th overall in the first round of the 2006 NBA Draft by the Sacramento ...

There seems to be little that stirs up more passion amongst NBA fans than the discussion about who the greatest player of all time is. Wilt Chamberlain versus Michael Jordan, with the occasional well deserved plug for some of the other all-time greats. With all the media hype of Jordan’s Hall of Fame induction and calls by some that Jordan should have gone into the Hall by himself, perhaps some objective ...

As has already been mentioned by some very observant fans, Sonny Weems looks a lot like Joey Graham. So much so that at the recent "Season Seat Holder Block Party," fans actually mistook Weems for the still popular Graham. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not. Sonny Weems, the high flying senior from Arkansas is probably best known from the You-Tube video clips of him winning the college slam ...

The Toronto Raptors and Toronto Maple Leafs are going green, again! No, the Raptors are not permanently adopting those strange-looking St. Patrick’s Day jerseys that make them look like some bizarre version of the Boston Celtics. And no, the Maple Leafs aren’t going to the green and white hues of the original St. Pats uniforms, although if they’d win like the St. Pats, I could go for it! The teams and ...

Former NBA champion Radoslav “Rasho” Nesterovic returned this off season to Toronto, a place this experienced veteran said wanted to play for this year.  Now that’s saying several things Toronto fans having been dying to hear. So why did Bryan Colangelo go out of his way to bring back the big man he’d shipped off to Indiana last year? Aside from Rasho being the consummate professional everywhere he has played and ...

In the most unusual of all negotiating tactics the NBA's referees have decided to lock themselves into their hotel to prove their commitment towards getting a deal done, as reported in a NY Times article by Howard Beck "The referees are locking themselves in, in an effort to get a deal done as soon as possible,” Lamell McMorris, the referees’ chief negotiator, said. In most labour disputes when a strike ...

On Feb. 19, 2009 trade deadline day, the Toronto Raptors sent bench warmer Will Solomon off to Boston for little used third year center Patrick O’Bryant.  Solomon hadn’t seen the floor for the past six Raptor games and O’Bryant had played for only 108 minutes all season with Boston.  Not exactly the players media types dream about being traded on trade deadline day!* Not just media types, fans were left underwhelmed by ...

This offseason the Toronto Raptors announced: On May 11, 2009, Jay Triano has signed a three-year contract as head coach. On June 5, 2009, the hiring of Marc Iavaroni and Alex English as assistant coaches. On July 1, 2009, the addition of Eric Hughes, Alvin Williams, and Francesco Cuzzolin as assistant coaches. And you thought the fans would need a program to recognize the players this season.  There are four new faces on the Raptors ...

When Marcus Banks showed up in Toronto with Shawn Marion as part of the Jermaine O’Neal trade most fans grudgingly accepted this as part of their punishment for escaping O’Neal’s enormous contract. It wasn’t that they had seen Banks play and held that against him; it was more that they hadn’t seen him play and virtually no one had anything good to say about him. But to be fair, over the ...