Toronto has two options: stay the course or blow it up! Kawhi Leonard has signed a maximum four years, $142 million with the LA CLippers and will be joining Paul George who was just acquired by the team. The Raptors did everything they could to keep their Finals MVP. They gave him both health, by [...]
July 6, 2019
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According to Bleacher Report, Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving had decided to team up before the start of 2018-19 season. The selected team, the Brooklyn Nets, had not been selected at the time. Durant and Irving were going to play together, somewhere, in 2019. That’s what they resolved over a series of conversations before this [...]
July 1, 2019
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Toronto Raptors forward Pascal Siakam has won the NBA’s most improved player award. Siakam became the first Raptors player to win the award. He’s also the sixth international player, and first ever from Africa, to do so. “I want to thank the Toronto Raptors for believing in me — a little scrawny kid from Cameroon,” [...]
June 24, 2019
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James Harden and Chris Paul appear to have reached a point of no return, with their relationship being described as “unsalvageable.” Yahoo Sports reported that Paul has already demanded a trade, and Harden also made it clear to the front office that the two can’t coexist. Their relationship is beyond repair and the star players [...]
June 19, 2019
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The NBA playoffs will have a massive effect on many things, but one of the chief outcomes that they will influence is how high-profile free agents-to-be act in the off-season. Players such as Kevin Durrant, Kyrie Irving, Kawhi Leonard, Klay Thompson, DeMarcus Cousins, Jimmy Butler, Khris Middleton, and Tobias Harris all are about to become [...]
Head coach Steve Kerr has announced that Kevin Durant will miss Game 4 of the NBA Finals against the Raptors as he continues to heal from his calf injury. “The training staff says he’s not ready to play yet – that’s all,” Kerr said. This is the ninth straight game that KD has missed since [...]
June 7, 2019
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A Game 1 loss in the NBA Finals may be forcing the Warriors to speed up Kevin Durant’s rehab. On Wednesday, Steve Kerr said that Durant was cleared to take part in individual on-court basketball activities, but the 10-time All-Star actually began his on-court basketball workouts earlier this week. Now some members within the Warriors’ [...]
May 31, 2019
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It seems that there is a lot more than we thought when it comes to Kristaps Porzingis’ exit from New York. According to Knicks president Steve Mills, Porzingis gave the front office an ultimatum before he was acquired by the Mavericks in a seven-player blockbuster deal prior to the trade deadline. “(Porzingis) walked into my [...]
May 23, 2019
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Indiana Pacers’ Tyreke Evans has been banned from the NBA for violating terms of the league’s anti-drug program. The Pacers released the folowing statement about the NBA’s decision: Evans, who was set to become a free agent this summer, will now have to sit out two seasons, after which he can apply for reinstatement with [...]
May 18, 2019
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Game 7 of the Raptors / 76ers playoff series is one that will go down in history. Kawhi Leonard hit a shot from the corner over Joel Embiid at the buzzer that bounced, bounced, bounced and bounced off the rim before falling setting off a wild celebration as the Raptors advanced to the conference finals [...]
May 13, 2019
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