“Those who cannot remember the past…

The famous (and famously mangled) quote by George Santayana continues to run around my head whenever I debate with a Raptor fans the merits of “tanking” vs “winning now”. If you’re a Raptor fan, you no doubt heard the rumours that were flying around at the beginning of the “offseason”. Most of them I mentioned in a previous [...]

Finally(?)

While the players still have to vote on and ratify the deal, it appears well finally have an NBA season. Hopefully. After all the posturing and hard line stances on both sides, the details that are emerging for the deal arent radically different from the previous deal. All those great ideas people had about “fixing” [...]

Jonas Valanciunas Is Like Two Cookies (and Amir)

A friend recently told me about a show she was watching where scientists conducted an experiment with young children. They put them in a room and on a table was a cookie. The kids were told that if they didn’t eat the cookie, then after half an hour, they would get two cookies. Despite knowing [...]

2011 NBA Draft Report Card!

TORONTO: Exceeds Expectations 5. Jonas Valanciunas It’s deja vu all over again. Last year, a team above them unexpectedly took an athletic defensive power forward which resulted in a higher ranked big man unexpectedly falling to the Raptors. Colangelo and the Raptors brass probably can’t believe their luck. I was afraid they might still take Knight, [...]

Don’t Mock Me! (Plus rumours, predictions & a final wish list)

It’s just hours away to the 2011 NBA Draft and this is when rumours and predictions start to get out of control. Anyone who’s working today who loves the draft as much as I do, won’t be getting much done today, I’m guessing. So let me give a final rundown of everything that’s been happening [...]

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