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For a long time, the running joke around top college basketball prospects having second thoughts about turning professional was along the lines of...
CALEDON, Ont. — Not for the first time on the back nine on Sunday, Matthew Anderson found himself in a pickle. His drive on the 504-yard par-4...
I’m not sure we’ll ever see a five-game NBA Finals that close any time soon. I’ll say we won’t. It will go in the books as a win for the New...
CALEDON, Ont. — The path toward the highest reaches of professional golf is rarely a straight one, and it tends to get increasingly narrow the...
Officially, historically, the craziest NBA Finals game of all time. In the space of 48 minutes, you had the San Antonio Spurs setting an NBA Finals...
No NBA team has ever come back from down 3-0 in a best-of-seven playoff series and now the San Antonio Spurs don’t have to try. For the third...
Bobby Webster’s Mom got her day started on the right foot. It was the wee hours of the morning in Hawaii when her son got the news that had been...
The San Antonio Spurs have done some amazing things this spring. Knocking off the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference...
That didn’t take long. While the 2026 NBA Finals may yet deliver a classic match-up between a young team with designs on reaching its destiny,...
The NBA is about to complete its first season under its new U.S. media rights deal, which is worth a mere $77 billion over 11 years. It couldn’t...
TORONTO — First, we’ll start with who intends to be at the 2028 Olympics, playing for the Canadian men’s national basketball team, trying to...
The series got the finale it deserved. The seventh game of the Western Conference Finals wasn’t a double-overtime nailbiter like the epic series...
TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors draft situation couldn’t be more mundane going forward: They own all their own first-round draft picks and their...
The Oklahoma City Thunder are knocking on the door of destiny, maybe even dynasty. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has one hand on basketball immortality. ...
TORONTO — Time flies. It was only four years ago when a relatively fresh-faced Scottie Barnes told the NBA that he wanted to be an all-NBA...
There weren’t 10 better rookies in the NBA this season than Collin Murray-Boyles. Anyone who watched him even peripherally could reach that...
The battle won, now comes the war. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is the NBA’s most valuable player for 2025-26. For the second consecutive season,...
TORONTO — This time a year ago, there was a sense that change was coming to the Toronto Raptors. There was uncertainty. It wasn’t yet 100 per...
TORONTO — It’s a bit of paradox unique to professional sports: As teams get better, the job of improving them gets harder. When Darko Rajakovic...
And now the hard part. Or maybe the interesting part. But definitely the business part. The Toronto Raptors had less than 12 hours to process their...
CLEVELAND — For the first time since October, the Toronto Raptors won’t be about the process. Won’t be about the work. There will be no...
CLEVELAND — The end of something unexpected or the start of a new adventure. Either possibility lies ahead of the Toronto Raptors as they get...
For three quarters of Game 5, the Toronto Raptors were the better team. But in the fourth quarter, the Cleveland Cavaliers reasserted the pattern...
Toronto Raptors head coach Darko Rajakovic has had an excellent start to his first playoff experience as an NBA head coach. He has made adjustments,...
The Toronto Raptors' offensive struggles couldn't stop them from tying their first-round series. The Raptors overcame a rough shooting...
TORONTO — When it comes to high-leverage playoff games, having help from unexpected sources is crucial, especially for the underdog. The Toronto...
TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors are going to need some special things to happen if they’re going to upset the heavily favoured Cleveland Cavaliers...
TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors have a Jakob Poeltl problem. It’s been ebbing in and out of sight for most of the season. But with the playoff...
CLEVELAND — Careful what you wish for. Intentionally or not, Toronto Raptors all-star Brandon Ingram made himself the focal point of the discourse...
CLEVELAND — There was no staff dinner. No get-together for the Toronto Raptors coaching staff to hash out what went right or what went wrong (a...
CLEVELAND — Which team would impose their preferred style on the other? Would the Cleveland Cavaliers manage to keep Game 1 of their first-round...
The Toronto Raptors aren’t new to pleasantly surprising seasons. Their franchise mythology was baptised in it, if you want to look at it that way....
Ja'Kobe Walter was taking driving lessons. Sabrina Walter, his mother, was his driving instructor. Not: She took her son driving so he could get...
TORONTO — They’re here. The only Toronto Raptors player who was on the team the last time they were in the playoffs is Scottie Barnes, which...
The Toronto Raptors' road to the playoffs for the first time since 2022 has been long and winding, and — technically at least — was still in...
During the tumult that comes with the final days of the NBA season, there is always one reliable oasis of calm: The Saturday before the last day of...
The first thing that came to mind when the Toronto Raptors took the floor against the New York Knicks in Madison Square Garden was: how about no one...
TORONTO - As much as could reasonably be hoped for, really. More actually. It’s not just that the Raptors swept the second installment of their...
Erik Spoelstra is NBA royalty. Minted. He’s got two rings to prove it, as he led the Miami Heat to the NBA championship in 2011-12 and 2012-13....
TORONTO — What’s real? That’s what these last handful of games are about for teams like the Toronto Raptors, or the Miami Heat. Neither are...
BOSTON — For a team chasing an NBA championship, getting Jayson Tatum back at full strength is a big deal. The Boston Celtics haven’t needed...
MEMPHIS — One of the worst trades in NBA history played out on July 3, 2001, when the league’s board of governors approved the relocation of the...
TORONTO — The downside of playing meaningful basketball in the late stage of the NBA season is that you can fail. On Wednesday night, the Toronto...
DETROIT — When the going gets tough, well, who knows where the Toronto Raptors are going. Few teams are harder to get a handle on, even 75 games...
PHOENIX — For people who work in the NBA, the long, unforgiving schedule often means missing some moments with loved ones. But on a late-March...
Team building in the NBA is very difficult. Consider the Orlando Magic. They have patient, deep-pocketed ownership, smart and experienced management...
The most important game of the season. Well, until the next one. Heading into Friday night’s visit from the New Orleans Pelicans, the Toronto...
The Toronto Raptors were never in a very good position to get a win over the Los Angeles Clippers at the Intuit Dome. And they didn’t, falling...
SALT LAKE CITY – After playing 13 minutes in what everyone involved hopes will be his last G-League game, Markelle Fultz made his rounds. First,...
PHOENIX — Remember when the biggest gripe around the Toronto Raptors was when they would play good teams tough well into the fourth quarter and then...