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Serge Ibaka And Robin Lopez Throw Actual Punches At Each Other [Update]
A chest-to-chest staring match in the NBA actually popped off into a real actual fight tonight. The Raptors and Bulls don’t like each other, and in the third quarter with the Bulls up big, Serge Ibaka and Robin Lopez got into it after Jimmy Butler nailed a jumper. Unlike most other incidents where p...
John Wall Denied Serge Ibaka's Dunk And It Was Glorious
In the fourth quarter of the Wednesday night game between the Toronto Raports and the Washington Wizards, Raptors forward Serge Ibaka collected a pass under the basket, pivoted, and launched himself towards the rim for a one-handed jam. It looked like he’d make it, too, until John Wall swooped down ...
Kyle Lowry To Undergo Wrist Surgery, Hopes To Be Back For Playoffs
The Toronto Raptors announced today that all-star point guard Kyle Lowry, who has missed the last two games with swelling and pain in his right wrist, will undergo surgery, and “aim to return” for the playoffs: ...
Report: Magic Trade Serge Ibaka To Raptors, Continue To Play Themselves
The NBA hot stove has been burning early and often this year, and according to The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the next player on the move is Magic big man Serge Ibaka....
The Raptors Are Sliding And Kyle Lowry Is Giving Ominous Quotes
“Keeping the same situations over and over, and not being successful, something’s gotta give, something’s gotta change,” said Kyle Lowry after the Raptors pissed away a 16-point lead over the Pistons to lose their 10th game in 14 outings. Some of those were particularly ugly for a team that fancies ...
Kyle Lowry Reminded Everyone That He's Still Good As Hell
The Raptors came into tonight’s game with the suddenly competent Pelicans on a 1-6 skid. One of those losses was to Philadelphia and three of were by two points or fewer, which probably makes a frustrating stretch feel even worse. The timing is especially bad since the swoon came when Cleveland was ...
Kyle Lowry Calls Trump's Muslim Ban "Bullshit" Many Times Over
Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry was asked today for his thoughts on Donald Trump’s Muslim ban, seeing as how the NBA has produced fantastic responses like Steve Kerr’s and Gregg Popovich’s to the president’s executive order. Lowry was more to the point....
DeMar DeRozan Takes All The Hard, Bad Shots And It Is Glorious
DeMar DeRozan torched the Celtics for 41 points and 13 rebounds last night, and the Raptors’ leading scorer continues to feast on the scraps nobody else really wants these days: lots of contested midrange jumpers. DeRozan was out there leaning, absorbing contact, going 16-for-29 from the field and 8...
In-Game 360 Dunks Are Good As Hell, So Just Keep Doing Them Until Your Skeleton Can No Longer Sustain It
Here’s a thing Terrence Ross did in the fourth quarter of a tied, tense game, while semi-guarded, and with a wide-open teammate:...
DeMar DeRozan Dunks Physically On Ricky Rubio And Verbally On Kyle Lowry
Last night, DeMar DeRozan somehow materialized above the rim to turn DeMarre Carroll’s missed layup into Ricky Rubio’s funeral: cowering, hands clamped over head, palpable fear and awe of a more powerful being. As always, it’s nice to watch someone close a sizeable gap and fuck someone’s day up....
The Raptors Got Screwed Out Of A Game-Tying Buzzer-Beater<em></em>
Toronto Raptors wing Terrence Ross sent last night’s game against the Sacramento Kings into overtime with this buzzer-beating three:...
DeMar DeRozan Is Off To A Historically Hot Start
DeMar DeRozan is an outlier among NBA shooting guards, in that he can’t shoot. The Raptors wing is a career .282 three-point shooter, which is lower than DeMarcus Cousins’s career mark, and he’s shooting even worse this year. Dwyane Wade had a distinguished career without being able to stretch the f...
Blake Griffin Picked Up A Cool New Skill In The Offseason (Throwing Shoes At People)
They say the summer is a time to refine your game, learn new skills, and hone your craft. Blake Griffin took that to heart, apparently, and his new skill is cool as hell. It’s throwing shoes at opponents. Cory Joseph probably thought he was not going to catch Jamal Crawford’s size 17 to the mouth to...
DeMar DeRozan Almost Pulled Off A 360 Dunk Over A Defender
If DeMar DeRozan had managed to stuff this dunk in on this poor Chinese national teamer, it would have been one of the coolest dunks in the history of jams. As it stands, DeRozan finished just shy. The USA bench got a technical foul for their reaction, which seems unfair given that they just nearly ...
Nearly Perfect: Night Of The Raptor
Maybe it started when they named the team after a dinosaur in a Steven Spielberg movie, or when the first player they ever drafted refused to report, or when the team’s greatest player left the country to attend his college graduation on the morning of the biggest game in franchise history. But if y...
The Cavaliers Are Back In The Finals
Cleveland beat Toronto 113-87 tonight. James Jones will make his sixth straight Finals, a momentous achievement. Good for him. ...
Even Cavs Fans Are Owning The Raptors
The Cleveland Cavaliers took a 100-60 lead into the fourth quarter of tonight’s Eastern Conference finals game, and that’s all you need to know and all I’ll say about what’s happening on the court. Or at least with the basketball players on the court, because this bald-headed Cavs fan got into a fun...
Dikembe Mutombo Denies Bismack Biyombo Permission To Finger Wag (UPDATE)
TMZ caught up with Dikembe Mutombo, the former NBA star most recently famous for kinda-sorta-accidentally-almost-maybe-maybe-not revealing that the draft lottery was NOT rigged for the Philadelphia 76ers, and he offered his takes on Bismack Biyombo co-opting his signature finger wag move. His take i...
The Raptors Don't Quit
The Raptors’ two most important players right now are a probably-hurt tiny point guard who, until recently, was having a historically-bad playoffs and an offensively inept center who played 22 minutes per game this regular season. That doesn’t sound like a formula for defeating a team led by LeBron ...