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MILWAUKEE — When it comes to theft and general defensive mayhem, the Toronto Raptors represent one of the NBA’s most dangerous neighbourhoods....
DENVER — The Toronto Raptors had to be happy with how they started against the Denver Nuggets. How they finished? Nightmare, with echoes of last...
DENVER — 'Kawhi Leonard, The Sequel' has been as advertised, if not as hoped for the Toronto Raptors. The seven-time all-NBA selection...
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The line formed three hours before tip and was going strong minutes before the ball went up. Los Angeles Clippers fans...
LOS ANGELES — He may be wearing a different uniform and going against his old team, but Sandro Mamukelashvili — one of the NBA’s all-time good...
TORONTO — Scottie Barnes had the worst offensive game of his career less than a week ago. He didn’t make a shot, didn’t make a free throw and...
There is no question that RJ Barrett is maturing. The kid who was a fixture on the Canadian basketball scene since he was a teenager is in his...
TORONTO — For perhaps the first time this season, the Toronto Raptors looked like the Toronto Raptors. Specifically looked like the group that...
TORONTO — The news about Kawhi Leonard missing two weeks and likely more due to an issue with his left knee was both predictable and encouraging....
Kawhi Leonard is out for at least a week with discomfort in his left knee. The 15-year veteran was warming up before the Raptors' blowout loss...
That didn’t take long. Hopefully it won’t last. There was never a moment that trading for Kawhi Leonard didn’t come packed with risk with...
WASHINGTON – Once upon a time, there was a thought in the NBA that teams could win with small lineups, and "positionless" basketball might...
It will only get harder from here. Not only because the Toronto Raptors' regular season still has 81 games and 17 road trips to go, but because...
TORONTO — In the NBA, individual warm-up slots are typically determined by seniority. In general, it’s the younger players first. As the ranking...
TORONTO — Timing is everything in the NBA. For the Toronto Raptors, the overwhelming question is whether their time is now. For all concerned,...
It is almost here, and try to find one Toronto Raptors fan who isn’t thrilled about it. If it only feels like the regular season has been a long...
The NBA pre-season doesn’t mean much, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t mean anything. The New York Knicks, fresh off their first championship...
TORONTO — You can never knock Darko Rajakovic for his enthusiasm. The Toronto Raptors head coach is perpetually caffeinated, in both the literal...
VANCOUVER — Jamal Shead has seen Gradey Dick do some impressive things. There was the time his former Toronto Raptors teammate went off for 30...
VANCOUVER — The greatest team in Toronto Raptors history was elevated to its ultimate peak by Kawhi Leonard. He wasn’t the only future Hall of...
TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors are either the youngest old team in the NBA or the oldest young team, take your pick. Sure, they had the...
Kawhi Leonard is back with the Toronto Raptors, but how soon until he’s actually back on the floor? It could be a little while here before he...
QUEBEC CITY — The plan is that Kawhi Leonard can get them over the top; that one of the great two-way players in NBA history has enough games left...
QUEBEC CITY — The lasting image from Toronto Raptors training camp at the University of Laval may well be head coach Darko Rajakovic playing a...
QUEBEC CITY – The vibes in the early stages of the Toronto Raptors training camp have been on the immaculate side, which would only be a story if it...
QUEBEC CITY — The end of every NBA practice is almost always the same: nearly every player on the roster spreads out to various baskets and engages...
QUEBEC CITY — The solution to most problems in professional sports lies in the old dictum: “If you don’t like it, play better.” Well, RJ...
TORONTO – One team’s pariah, another’s saviour. Sports, in other words. In his first public comments since Kawhi Leonard re-joined the Toronto...
The Raptors are cool again. Adding a seven-time all-NBA selection following one of the best seasons of his career will do that for a team. Twelve...
Bobby Webster didn’t speak the quiet part out loud, but he spoke volumes, regardless. In his first extended comments since reacquiring Kawhi...
It was pretty easy to be optimistic about the Toronto Raptors back in May, when they were coming off a dramatic seven-game first-round loss to the...
It’s good to be in the NBA, and it’s especially good to be Kawhi Leonard. Even if the contract extension the Toronto Raptors announced Wednesday...
CALEDON, Ont. — When it comes to jersey retirements, Kyle Lowry’s was always a full-court breakaway ending in an inevitable slam dunk,...
TORONTO — Humber Polytechnic and Canada Basketball have a relationship that stretches back decades. When Canada Basketball vice president and...
When more than two months of patience bolstered by carefully calibrated confidence was finally rewarded, the excitement that ran through the Toronto...
Before I get into my primer for the 2026-27 Toronto Raptors season, we might as well get a Kawhi Leonard update out of the way: With training camp...
The Los Angeles Clippers got their punishment. The Toronto Raptors got their man. The Clippers have plenty of reason for regret, even shame. How...
“It’s just finding that right balance.” In the absence of hard information, the tendency is to look for clues that may or not be staring us...
The players’ union isn’t happy. Pablo Torre has found out something else, and Kawhi Leonard remains — officially — a Los Angeles Clipper. The...
Everyone deserves their shot at happiness. How many athletes have chosen to search for it in Philadelphia? Credit to LeBron James, who has forged...
Summer League is over, summer is here. In a normal year, NBA business would be all but completed by now and the league would be on the cusp of an...
The words everyone was hoping to hear and NBA commissioner Adam Silver is doubtless eager to say remain unspoken. At the NBA board of governors...
LAST VEGAS — The NBA is in kind of a weird place — and no, this story is not about the Kawhi Leonard saga. That is its own category of weird. ...
LAS VEGAS — As advertised. There’s only so much a rookie can do in his first Summer League game to establish any kind of value at the NBA level....
Chances are, former Toronto Raptor Kawhi Leonard will still end up being a Toronto Raptor again. There is even a world — a dreamy, distant world...
LAS VEGAS – Collin Murray-Boyles' first priority following his highly successful rookie season was to do nothing. No trips. No celebrations. No...
TORONTO — This was always the plan. It just took time for it to take shape and for it to become obvious as the only sensible endpoint to Kyle...
HAMILTON – There is no bigger basketball story in Hamilton than Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. The Oklahoma City Thunder star is an NBA champion and...
Kyle Lowry will be retiring as a Toronto Raptor. One of the most significant players in franchise history and the backbone of the most successful...
It still doesn’t feel exactly real, the idea — or the fact — that Kawhi Leonard is a Toronto Raptor again. But that’s what happened on...
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