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Linkage – July 17
The AltRaps Blog — The Raptors have signed guard Roko Ukic, the club’s second-round draft pick (41st overall) in 2005, to a three-year contract. The 6-foot-5, 210-pound Ukic played in Italy last season with Lottomatica Virtus Roma. He averaged career highs of 11.5 points, 2.4 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.1 steals in 19 Euroleague contests. He shot 55% from the field and 82% from the free throw line. Ukic is expected to back up Jose Calderon at the point guard position in Toronto. - Toronto Sun Roko. Roko. ROKO. He’s coming, three-year deal, the number I heard was $1.25 million in the first year. It ...

Power to the People
SLAM Online — By Aggrey Sam When I was 13, the world–as I knew it–changed forever. I was already somewhat ensconsed into the world of high school basketball (my mother has Washington Post Winter All-Met and Parade Magazine All-American teams from the early ’90s boxed up somewhere in her crib; that makes me feel both old and strange), so I knew about the 6-11 prodigy from Farragut since he was still in South Cackalack. But when Kevin Garnett declared for the NBA Draft and was subsequently picked fifth, it felt like something new was happening. If I was 20 years older, it might have been my Spencer Haywood (or ...