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Raptors notebook: Bosh wants a shoot-first Ford
With a little more than eight hours to go before the start of Game 3, Toronto Raptors coach Sam Mitchell was still keeping Thursday night's starting lineup to himself. "Y'all got to wait until tonight," Mitchell said to the media during Thursday's shootaround. "Y'all know you got to wait until tonight. I can't [reveal the lineup.] It would go against my inner fibre as a ...
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The AltRaps Blog — ... the game. The stars, who are good friends. split the bill. Before fans start to wax nostalgic over the days when players did not socialize when they were locked in a post-season series, Bosh thinks those facts should be checked. "I always hear stories about Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell being friends," Bosh said. "That was a little ritual they had. They always ate dinner together before the game, the day before or something like that. I think it’s always been like that." - National Post Filed under: ...

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