A greatly reduced Raptors team will host the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday in Toronto’s temporary home of Tampa, Fla. The team announced Tuesday that starters Fred VanVleet, Pascal Siakam and OG Anunoby are out as part of the NBA’s health and safety protocols, as are Patrick McCaw and Malachi Flynn. Jalen Harris and recently signed […]
A small gaming company based in St. Catharines, Ont., has created a video game to help in the fight against COVID-19. Devil’s Cider Games was formed in 2018 by four ex-schoolmates. On Feb. 9, they released Cat Colony Crisis — designed to promote pro-science concepts in the fight against COVID-19. “The game concept is that […]
Article content continued Is it difficult? Building your own PC is not a trivial undertaking, and you should probably have a basic level of comfort with computers and/or electronics. This was the third PC I’ve built from scratch, but even so, I watched tons of YouTube tutorials, consulted plenty of online guides and even read […]
Cleaning out the corners of the mind and the pages of the notebook, as we do to close out weeks in this neck of the woods. – Of course, it’s ridiculous at many levels that the NBA is planning an all-star game for early March. The league’s walking a tightrope like so many Blondins as […]
The Los Angeles Lakers didn’t win Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Tuesday as much as they survived it. It was a grimy affair, as former Raptors coach Dwane Casey might call it, a couple of teams that looked dead tired at times and out of sync at others but it was the Lakers […]
ORLANDO, FLA.—Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra did what he could when it came to a warning. “This game is going to be different,” he told his players in the locker room prior to Saturday night’s Game 3 of the Eastern Conference final, “is going to feel different than the first two.” ESPN captured his words. […]
Denver’s dynamic duo of Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic led another stunning turnaround as the Nuggets advanced to the Western Conference finals for the first time since 2009. Canada’s Murray, of Kitchener, Ont., scored 40 points, Jokic had a triple-double by the third quarter and Denver again overcame a double-digit deficit to shock the Los […]
There are not many better attributes a team can have than being known for playing hard and fighting through lulls and always, always giving yourselves a chance. They have become trademarks of the Raptors, what they are known for, their culture, and something of which they can be proud. But all those good things, all […]
It was approaching an hour after the Toronto Raptors’ heart-pounding Game 6 double-overtime victory against the Boston Celtics on Wednesday night to force a seventh and decisive finale. A downtown Toronto neighbourhood basketball court, dimly lit by surrounding street lights, was packed with a bunch of young men, shooting hoops and mulling every detail of the game, discussing […]
It will be a test, but the NBA playoffs are always a test and the resiliency the Raptors have shown all season is now more necessary than it’s ever been. They were clobbered by the Celtics on Monday night, losing 111-89 in a game where the lopsided score was indeed indicative of the play, and […]