New York Knicks: Out Of Town Articles
SBN: Raptors HQ (JayRosales) —
Greek Freak vs. The Klaw gets the week started, then LeBron does battle with Kawhi at its end. The Raptors have their work cut out for them. And then there were two! Only two teams are without a loss. While the teams in question were likely not on your radar as the “last team standing” before the season started, they’ll take centre stage on Monday. After facing the Bucks, Toronto’s got a...
SBN: Raptors HQ (ConorMcCreery) —
A deep dive into the impressive arsenal of the man guaranteed to bring the Raptors an NBA title. (Guarantee void in Ontario.) (For now.) Watch the Tape is a new Raptors HQ feature that will teach you absolutely nothing about basketball, how to watch it better, or how it’s properly played. It WILL take you on a tour of some of the finest, and most random Raptors related (and sometimes...
SBN: Raptors HQ (Josh Kern) —
With one last dip in the pre-season rankings pond, we look at what FiveThirtyEight has to say, and it’s fun, and good The NBA regular season starts tomorrow! But it’s not tomorrow yet, which means we’re still in NBA preseason rankings season. The beautiful minds at FiveThirtyEight are the latest to join the wave, and as is typical with FiveThirtyEight, their rankings are less subjective...
SBN: Raptors HQ (Sean Woodley) —
208 players down, ten to go. Please don’t get mad at how high Donyell Marshall is ranked. It’s the grand finale of Ranking Every Raptor. Holy shit, I did it! 220 players, something like 30,000 words, and a lot of swears. It’s almost a let down that we’re wrapping up Ranking Every Raptor with the most boring group of players — the guys you already know everything about, who played more than...
SBN: Raptors HQ (Josh Kern) —
The Toronto Raptors have traded away a lot of players over the years. Who rained down the sweetest vengeance against their former club? Did you hear? An NBA player is out for revenge against his former team! That only happens a dozen or so times a year. But this year it’s different for Raptors fans, as it’s our longtime franchise icon and all time leader in 10 different categories, who’s...
SBN: Raptors HQ (Sean Woodley) —
Today’s batch of rankings features guys fans loved in the moment, and others whose legacies benefit from the gift of hindsight. John Salley is also in this one. Today’s installment of Ranking Every Raptor will see us power through the halfway point and into the top-100. You are going to be mad at no. 91. Just hear me out, OK? You’ll see the light, I promise. If you haven’t yet, make sure...
SBN: Raptors HQ (Sean Woodley) —
Most of these Raptors players were bad, but had moments that were memorably good. If you haven’t figured it out yet, we’re ranking every player in Raptors history based on their contributions to the team. Arbitrary criteria, don’t get mad at me, yaddah yaddah. Monday’s cluster of 30 journeyman failed to produce much in the way of stand-out moments or poppin’ stat lines during their mostly...
SBN: Raptors HQ (Josh Kern) —
The 2018-2019 Eastern Conference looks to be a three-team race, with two dark horses bringing up the rear. Last week, we ran down the Toronto Raptors’ competition at the lower end of the Eastern Conference , ending up, perhaps unsurprisingly, with the consistently underwhelming Washington Wizards . I predicted the Raptors would carve out a 33-5 record against those 10 teams. But these...
SBN: Raptors HQ (Sean Woodley) —
A lot of players have played for the Raptors. These are the worst of the bunch. When the Raptors traded for Kawhi Leonard , the franchise leveled up. For 23 years, the Raptors have lacked a truly life-changing superstar. Vince Carter came close to reaching the upper crust, albeit during one of the deepest talent nadirs in league history, and the Kyle Lowry-DeMar DeRozan duo won a...
SBN: Raptors HQ (Josh Kern) —
Let’s separate the Eastern Conference pretenders from contenders and predict how the Raptors will fare against each. Last week in this space I broke down the Raptors’ main moves this offseason . Naturally Toronto wasn’t the only team to make changes! The Eastern Conference is going to be a different beast in the 2018-19 season, so let’s take a look at the competition and see what the...
SBN: Raptors HQ (Daniel Reynolds) —
Mississauga’s greatest basketball show hits the court for the 2018-19 season soon. Here’s the info you need. Get ready, because the Raptors 905 are set to begin their fourth season as a franchise on Saturday, November 3rd at 2pm at the newly named Paramount Find Foods Centre. (It doesn’t quite roll off the tongue, but Paramount is a far finer company than Hershey.) They’ll be taking on...
SBN: Raptors HQ (Sully Akbari) —
The Toronto Raptors will enter their 24th year in the NBA when the 2018-19 NBA season tips-off in mid-October. The NBA released the schedule for all 30 teams on Friday. Here is a complete guide of everything you need to know about this season’s schedule for the Raptors. Schedule Breakdown Over the past couple of years, the NBA has made an effort to cut down on back-to-backs and the...
SBN: Raptors HQ (Daniel Reynolds) —
Or maybe... ever? As it leaked last night, from mysterious Christmas sources, it felt increasingly likely Toronto would not be featured on the big NBA day of December 25th. To be honest, we knew this would likely be the case, even if the Raptors had added Kawhi Leonard , even if they had Finals aspirations, even if they had a built-in storyline for a big marquee game with a showdown...
SBN: Raptors HQ (Sean Woodley) —
The Raptors need to sign a big man. Here’s the case for a reunion with a former fan favourite. The Raptors are in the market for a guy, though not really out of necessity as much as technicality. Toronto’s roster has more useful wings than Nick Nurse can realistically use, three times as many good point guards as most teams employ (infinitely more than the Magic do), and a small but...
SBN: Raptors HQ (Dan Grant) —
The Raptors boss is catching flak for his treatment of a homegrown star. Is it deserved? The Kawhi Leonard era is underway in Toronto, and its opening (and perhaps only) season represents a significant fork-in-the-road for the franchise. The window for contention, pegged at three years before last season began, has possibly been reduced by one — that is to say, it’s this year or bust. If...