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Just like the popular MDG commercial where MDG comes in a clear bottle and has nothing to hide, Hedo Turkoglu arrived in Toronto to start the 2009-10 season and stepped into the role of “Gary” who calls in to work tired. Just in case you missed the infamous MDG commercial.  MDG announces their beer comes in a clear bottle and has nothing to hide, how about Gary?  Then Gary proceeds to ...

What’s ugly on both sides and good in the middle? The Toronto Raptors 2009-10 basketball season. A slow start that only got worse was turned into a strong charge that looked like a rookie hitting the wall after the All-Star break.  The Raptors season in a flash looked like this:                 Games Record Points For Points Against Diff                   1-10 5-5 106.9 105.9 1.0     11-20 2-8 103.7 116.0 -12.3     21-30 6-4 100.8 100.9 -0.1     31-40 7-3 102.6 98.3 4.3     41-50 7-3 108.1 104.8 3.3     51-60 5-5 103.4 105.7 -2.3     61-70 3-7 99.6 109.2 -9.6     71-80 3-7 104.1 106.2 -2.1     81-82 2-2 121.0 105.0 16                   total 40-42 104.1 105.9 -1.8                   The 5-5 start to the season was actually encouraging.  The Raptors were trying to ...

Fans walking into the final game of the 2009-10 season at the ACC were handed signs to hold during the game. The front said, “We Want More” The back said, “CB4.″ But most of the fans were not thinking about CB4. They were thinking about the Raptors chances of getting into this year’s playoffs. At that moment, fans wanted to see more games. The worst of it was when the ...

  No one can accuse the Chicago Bulls of leaving anything on the table in their next to last game of the season.  There was no holding back. And in the month of April, the Bulls' best players have dragged their team back from the brink of playoff elimination to be just one win away from the eighth and final seed in the East. But the Toronto Raptors have not been ...

But for 55 minutes of play last year in Denver, Sonny Weems would be the Raptors best rookie wing player in recent memory. And Weems play of late should have him labeled as one the NBA’s up and coming young players. Weems came into this season as an unknown former college senior “project” player.  Buried deep on the bench behind: The Raptors rookie, DeMar DeRozan; The Raptors free agent ...

Whoever said all they wanted was to be playing meaningful games in April must have been stark-raving mad!  Every game in April has been meaningful for the Raptors and it is driving their fans crazy. The Toronto Raptors have been playing meaningful games all month and have yet to win one on their home court.   By this point they are probably thankful someone put Philadelphia and Detroit ...

  In the first quarter of the 113-101 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers, Chris Bosh went down after an inadvertent elbow to the face.  With blood streaming to the floor, the best the Raptors could hope for was a severe cut inside the All-Star’s mouth. But before the half, the broadcast crew had advised fans that Bosh had been taken to the Cleveland Clinic for CT scans. The National Post ...

LeBron James and his Cleveland Cavaliers have clinched first overall in the NBA this season with two weeks to go before the playoffs start. And such success comes with perks. As reported at Cleveland.com, the Cleveland Cavaliers coach Mike Brown says, "It’s a luxury to be able to rest players so we’re going to want to do that.” And LeBron James has confirmed that he’s planning to take ...

  When Derrick Rose said the Bulls were going to make the playoffs, there seemed to be a disconnect with reality.  But last few days may have changed everything. The unlikely has happened to everyone involved.  The fight for eighth in the East could go down to the final day of the season. Milwaukee Bucks The once sure-fire Bucks suffered a shocking and unexpected set-back when their starting center and second-leading scorer Andrew Bogut ...

Almost from the moment DeMar DeRozan was drafted ninth overall in 2009, the rookie was a virtual lock to be the Toronto Raptors starting shooting guard. And almost to the moment Sonny Weems was drafted ninth in the second round of the 2008 draft by the Chicago Bulls, he was traded to the Denver Nuggets for a 2009 second-round draft pick. Weems never really got a chance to ...