Basketball Headlines in 2010
Microfracture knee surgery and its impact on the NBA
July 26, 2010 by Austin Kent
Amare Stoudemire is an expensive bundle of generously damaged goods, so it comes as no surprise that the New York Knicks are guarding their most recent investment with a desperate passion that only a team weeks removed from the biggest heart-break in franchise history could. Give them credit first of...
Read the full story...LeBron James, the Galactic Empire, and you
July 13, 2010 by Austin Kent
We've all been there, combing through the impractically lit carbon-freezing chamber of a landing station on Planet Bespin when out of an ominous-looking cloud of fog comes the silhouette of destiny waiting to smack us in the face with the biggest choice of our lives. It's terrifying, but more importantly...
Read the full story...Raptors' lacklustre season leads to uncertain future
June 16, 2010 by Joe Scaringi
It was the best of seasons, it was the worst of seasons. Actually, scratch that; it was really quite in the middle. The 2009-10 NBA season was nothing short of a roller-coaster ride for the Toronto Raptors, where highs were coupled with lows, and the end result was missing the...
Read the full story...Jazz fusion and the NBA Finals
June 14, 2010 by Mark Milner
One of my favourite basketball clichİs is that 'basketball is jazz'. It's an especially apt one for middle-aged sportswriters to make since both seem to involve improvisation on top of a structured bottom; what good would Kind of Blue have been if Miles Davis hadn't just come off the more...
Read the full story...Bryant to be front and center in NBA Finals
June 3, 2010 by Mark Milner
These are the days of wine and roses in the NBA. This is the time of the year that anybody and everybody looks forward to: the best-of-seven NBA Finals. Nitpick all you want, but this is the classic Finals matchup, the one that seems universally constant: Lakers versus Celtics. The...
Read the full story...Latest Raptors all-star nears extinction
May 7, 2010 by Mark Milner
The best and the worst thing about social media is how it removes the barriers between fans and athletes. There is little - if any - buffer between the two which means there's no room for error. That's why when Chris Bosh sent out two tweets a few evenings ago asking if...
Read the full story...The Grudge: How even 10 years later Raptors fans can't let up
March 31, 2010 by Eric Rosenhek
Fans of the Toronto Raptors are passionate. They live and die by the team with a full range of emotions based on the club's performance. And while passion has positive results, it also has negative ones too. There are two players in the National Basketball Association - New York Knicks guard...
Read the full story...The Answer was lemonade all along
January 22, 2010 by Austin Kent
When life hands you lemons, it's a subtle sign that life really wanted Allen Iverson to start in the All-Star Game. How else would you explain Rajon Rondo coming off the bench in one of the weakest All-Star voting categories in recent memory? Regardless of the injustice, it's recommended...
Read the full story...Bleeding purple: Addition by subtraction
January 18, 2010 by Sam Joynt
I find it important to say that I once loved Vince Carter. Just as anyone who has ever lived and died by their favourite sports team loves their team's star player. It was a love made even more special as his arrival to the Toronto Raptors coincided with my birth...
Read the full story...Dog, the Raptor hunter
January 11, 2010 by Austin Kent
I've been a dog person for about as long as I've been a person and certainly longer than I've been a people person. When I found out that the Toronto Raptors were bringing back the Toronto Huskies get-up for a few games this season I assumed that I would fall...
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