torontosun.com - 10/30/2009
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Marco Belinelli shook off a pre-season shooting slump to contribute a bench-high 10 points in the Raptors season-opening win Wednesday.
petemarasmitch.com - 10/29/2009
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petemarasmitch.com —
(Ugh. That was too much alliteration, even for
me.) This is part of a continuing series of...
Q&A’s and chats with GMs in my fantasy league. In this one, I ask Raps Fan of Raptors Republic about his websites, the potential Big Bosh Problem and more. Pete Marasmitch: The Raptors FANtasy ...
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Rapping with Raptors Republic’s Raps Fan
hoopheadsnorth.com - 10/29/2009
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What a way to start off the 15th
Anniversary season: high defensive intensity and an offense that...
was firing on all cylinders last night! For key points from the game check out fellow HHN blogger U-E Sampang's thoughts on the impressive Raptors 101-91 win over the new look, and still ...
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Hedo Turkoglu discusses the Raptors' impressive season & ...
hoopheadsnorth.com - 10/29/2009
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hoopheadsnorth.com —
The night started with an orchestra playing to
hip hop beats and a great intro video montage...
leading up to lineups. Then the Raptors jumped on the Cavs, going up by as many as 21 points in the first half and holding on for a 101-91 win. The Raptors were led early by an agressive Andrea ...
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Raps, Fans Fired Up For Season 15
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Cavaliers: SL: Cavs miss West; Rondo, Celtics get extra negotiation time
Ohio Sports Report —
... , the team's first-round draft pick in 2007 and the 17th pick overall. The options that the Nets picked up on Lopez and Lee were for their third seasons. Lopez will earn $2.41 million, while Lee will get $1.34 million. The option on Yi is for his fourth season and it will earn him just over $4 million. Williams would have earned $2.5 million had the team pick up his fourth-year option." Mike Ganter, Toronto Sun :"Marco Belinelli shook off a pre-season shooting slump to contribute a bench-high 10 points in the Raptors season-opening win Wednesday. Yesterday, with the team ...
Morning Linkage – Oct 30
Raptors Republic - ESPN TrueHoop's Raptors Blog —
... of confidence has grown. … He's just becoming more of a man in every sense of the word."
These are early days, of course. And just as Gherardini spent Thursday peppering his praise for Bargnani with disclaimers – "It's just the beginning of a long journey," the executive said – Raptors coach Jay Triano wasn't especially effusive about Bargnani's performance in Toronto's 101-91 season-opening win.
Belinelli rewarded – Toronto Sun
Marco Belinelli shook off a ...
SL: Cavs miss West; Rondo, Celtics get extra negotiation time
Ball Don't Lie —
... Mike Ganter, Toronto Sun: "Marco Belinelli shook off a pre-season shooting slump to contribute a bench-high 10 points in the Raptors season-opening win Wednesday. Yesterday, with the team still basking in the glow of their upset over the ...
Raptors Are Getting Mad TV Love In Canada
Hooped Up —
... Raptors weren’t the only local entity celebrating a big win Wednesday night.
The Score, which televised the season opener, announced today that it drew a record audience of 420,000 during its broadcast, with a peak audience of 741,000 during the final half-hour.
It was the highest regular-season Raptors audience across any Canadian network within the past decade.
The previous high had been an audience of 238,000.
Toronto Sun
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Last year was a rough one for “Canada’s Team.” The Toronto Raptors front office thought they significantly improved a playoff team this last off-season when they made a blockbuster trade for Jermaine O’Neal. ...
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As for those talented Toronto teams he played on, which included such players as Carter, Antonio Davis and Tracy McGrady, Oakley said each of those players understood their specific roles, the reason the team was able to ...
Raptors exercise option on G Belinelli (AP) —
Yahoo! Sports - NBA News 10/29/2009
The Toronto Raptors plan to keep Italian guard Marco Belinelli for another season. The Raptors exercised the fourth-year team option on Belinelli's contract on Thursday, two days before the deadline. Belinelli, whose contract is now guaranteed through ...
