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Who Should the Toronto Raptors Draft?
There is one overriding reason why Duke freshman Kyrie Irving is the consensus number one pick in the 2011 draft. The NBA has become a point guard dominated league, and Irving is the best... »Read More
Trey Thompkins, Whatever It Takes
Georgia Bulldog junior Trey Thompkins is like a lot of this year’s NBA draft prospects. He has obvious strengths and weaknesses and mock drafts have him going somewhere in the first or second round.... »Read More
Greg Smith A Big, Physical Center
The hardest position to fill in today’s NBA is an athletic physical center who can defend the paint, collect boards, and still be enough of a threat that your team is not playing four... »Read More
Brandon Knight Likes The Pistons
The NBA Draft Combine in Chicago gives players and teams an early objective look at many of the players who can expect to hear their names called at the NBA Draft on Thursday June... »Read More
Toronto Raptors Extend Bryan Colangelo
The Toronto Raptors have finally ended the suspense and announced that President and General Manager Bryan Colangelo has been re-signed to a multi-year extension. Ever since the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan announced that they... »Read More
Should Toronto Trade Their Pick?
After the All-Star break, the Toronto Raptors cruised through the rest of the season with a 7-19 record securing the third most ping pong balls in the NBA’s draft lottery, but this may not... »Read More
Draft Sleeper: Josh Selby
Coming into this past college season, the future 2011 NBA mock draft top pick Kyrie Irving was listed as the number one college point guard prospect by Scout.com, but a kid from Baltimore –... »Read More
NBA Teams That Need To Start Over
There eventually comes a time when the calls to blow it all up are the only answer. A time when the only players a team should be trying to build around are those young... »Read More
Keeping Bryan Colangelo?
Usually the decision to keep or replace a team’s general manager is based on results on the floor, possibly taking into account things beyond the general manager’s control. However, the situation in Toronto is... »Read More
5 Steps: Fixing The Raptors
This year the Toronto Raptors were either the 20-win team you thought they would be at the start of the season, a bunch of underachievers and you can pick your own reason, or a... »Read More
James Johnson Gets Draft Do-Over?
All that James Johnson wants is a chance to play basketball in the NBA, and in a trade deadline deal this February, he got a second chance to show he belongs. "To get traded... »Read More
Award Watch: Coach Of The Year
There is only three weeks left to go in the regular season and the candidates for Coach of the Year are only entrenching their positions further. San Antonio Spurs’ head coach Gregg Popovich continues... »Read More
Flip Saunders Evaluates the Wizards
It’s been a long season in Washington that’s seen 21 different players donning a Wizards uniform and with five players currently side-lined by injury, Head coach Flip Saunders is relaying a realistic view of... »Read More
Award Watch: Coach of the Year
A month left to go in the regular season and the Coach of the Year still is not a sure thing. The Spurs’ head coach Gregg Popovich continues to be chased by Doc Rivers,... »Read More
Pacers Rocky Road To The Playoffs
At the end of January, Frank Vogel took over from the then Indiana Pacers head coach Jim O’Brien with a 17-27 record and watched his team beat the Toronto Raptors 104-93 at home for... »Read More
Award Watch: Coach of the Year
With the pressure of the stretch drive to the playoffs in full effect, we expect the best teams and the best coaches will step up their games and separate themselves from the rest of the... »Read More
Landry New Orleans’ Missing Piece?
At the trade deadline, the 6-9. 248lb, high-energy power forward Carl Landry was traded from the Kings to the New Orleans Hornets for second-year backup guard Marcus Thornton. The Hornets needed a boost for... »Read More
Award Watch: Coach of the Year
With just a little over six weeks and about 23 games left to go, there is not much time left for coaches to change the impression of the Coach of the Year voters as... »Read More
The DeMarcus Cousins You Don’t Know
When the 19-year-old DeMarcus Cousins was drafted fifth overall by the Kings after just one-year at Kentucky, the word was this highly skilled 6′ 11" 290lb dominating college freshman was a hot-tempered gamble. "They... »Read More
Raptors Acquire Bulls James Johnson
The Toronto Raptors acquired small forward James Johnson from the Chicago Bulls on Tuesday in exchange for the Miami HEAT’s 2011 first-round draft pick that the Raptors picked up this past summer as part... »Read More
Award Watch: Coach of the Year
The stretch drive to the playoffs is finally underway. Playoffs, playoff seeding, and momentum are all up for grabs over the next eight weeks. With less than 30 games to go, the reality... »Read More
All-Star Friday Melo-drama Wrap-up
The All-Star weekend events kicked off Friday with player interviews, the announcement of this year’s Basketball Hall of Fame Finalists, the BBVA All-Star Celebrity Game, and the T-Mobile Rookie Challenge and Youth Jam. While... »Read More
Is Chris Kaman Now Expendable?
As the surprising Los Angeles Clippers rush towards the NBA trade deadline with 20 wins to their credit and a 16-14 home record, it appears the organization has some long-term decisions to make. The... »Read More
Award Watch: Coach of the Year
In the week before the All-Star break, the best coaches see the distraction as a chance to pick up games from teams who may not be as focused heading into the break. They know... »Read More
Gary Neal One Of 2010-11′s Biggest Surprises
If you think an unknown player walking into San Antonio and earning a spot in Gregg Popovich’s rotation sounds unlikely, you’re not alone. But sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. It’s been over 13... »Read More
Award Watch: Coach of the Year
As we head through the NBA’s dog days before the All-Star break, it can be challenging for coaches to keep their teams focused and on track. The games during this stretch of the season... »Read More
Don’t Blame Bargnani For Raps’ Woes
It seems that almost since the day Raptors President and General Manager Bryan Colangelo selected Italian big man Andrea Bargnani with the first overall pick in 2006, Bargnani has been a polarizing figure on... »Read More
76ers Find A Winning Identity
Two-time All-Star Elton Brand, World Championship gold medal winner Andre Iguodala, an up and coming point guard in Jrue Holiday, some solid veterans and a host of promising young players all added up to... »Read More
Raptors Ed Davis Has Defense Plus
The play of the Toronto Raptors 2010 first round draft pick Ed Davis is beginning to get noticed around the NBA. After missing the second half of his sophomore college season at North Carolina... »Read More
Award Watch: Coach of the Year
San Antonio Spurs Head Coach Gregg Popovich continues to reside at our number one ranking for Coach of the Year as he still has his Spurs looking at a 70-win season, but watch out... »Read More
Toronto Raptors Not Giving Up
It’s been a long season for the 13-30 Toronto Raptors. Currently on a six-game losing streak and on the tail-end of a brutal five-game road swing with a roster decimated by injuries, the Raptors... »Read More
Raptors Buy Out Peja Stojakovic
The Toronto Raptors announced today they bought out the expiring contract of 12-year veteran three-point specialist Peja Stojakovic. Stojakovic was in the final year of a five-year contract he had signed with the New... »Read More
Award Watch: Coach of the Year
It is the middle of January and the long double-digit winning streaks are just a distant memory. Now is the time when teams really feel the wear and tear of the long NBA season... »Read More
Award Watch: Coach of the Year
With the possible exception of the Miami HEAT, most teams are beginning to feel the wear and tear of the long NBA season. Add to this the stress of the impending NBA trade deadline... »Read More
Developing DeMarcus Cousins and the Kings
This has been a challenging season for the Sacramento Kings and their Head Coach Paul Westphal. After winning just 25 games last season, the Kings are currently tied with Cleveland at just eight wins... »Read More
The Julian Wright Way in Toronto
This past summer the Toronto Raptors sent their 24-year-old shooting guard Marco Belinelli to New Orleans in exchange for the 23-year-old forward Julian Wright. The long-distance shooter Belinelli had become redundant in Toronto due... »Read More
Award Watch: Coach of the Year
After two full months, the Coach of the Year race is starting to take shape. The rookies Monty Williams and Tom Thibodeau are entrenching a position for themselves, Mike D’Antoni has the spotlight in... »Read More
Award Watch: Coach of the Year
Over the past week the last of those impressive double-digit winning streaks came to a sudden halt. The November coaches of the month, Gregg Popovich and Doc Rivers will just have to start new... »Read More
Raptors’ Calderon Regaining Respect
When 24-year-old point guard Jose Calderon joined the Raptors from the Spanish League’s Tau Vitoria in 2005 he quickly became a fan favorite in Toronto for his hustle and heady play. Later as he... »Read More
Award Watch: Coach of the Year
After a third of the season, some of the league’s top coaches whose teams underperformed during the previous regular season have their clubs back on top, a handful of coaches are leading their teams... »Read More
Jerryd Bayless Gets His Shot
Jerryd Bayless was the eighth ranked basketball prospect coming out of high school in 2007, and he was hardly a surprise lottery pick when drafted eleventh by the Pacers in 2008, even though some... »Read More
Award Watch: Coach of the Year
In the early part of the season, a team’s results are easily distorted by strength of schedule and injury, but the further we go the closer we get to gaining an accurate picture of... »Read More
Gary Forbes, NBADL to NBA Starter
For the Denver Nuggets, the 2010-11 season has been one of media-flamed rumors, injuries to key players, an historic run to 1,000 career victories for NBA coaching legend George Karl, and just enough success... »Read More
Wizards’ Nick Young Making A Statement
Nick Young was the prototypical wing player when the Washington Wizards drafted him with the sixteenth pick of the 2007 NBA draft. The 6′ 7" 206 lb junior from the University of Southern California... »Read More
Award Watch: Coach of the Year
Most of the NBA’s teams lapped the quarter-pole of the 2010-11 season this past week and we are starting to see some trends appear in the Coach of the Year (COY) race. Monty Williams’... »Read More
Raptors Win With Rookie Ed Davis
Ed Davis, the Raptors first round pick this summer, missed all of training camp and preseason because of a torn meniscus in his knee that required surgery to repair. After waiting longer than most... »Read More
Why They’re John Wall’s Wizards
When the Washington Wizards unexpectedly won the 2010 NBA draft lottery, it wasn’t unexpected that they would be taking the consensus number one pick in the 2010 draft, point guard John Wall from the... »Read More
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