If you're running the Toronto Raptors, do you decline Bryan Colangelo's final option year in order to chase Phil Jackson, even if you have no guarantee that he'd relocate north of the border? TSN.ca's Tim Chisholm offers his opinion. ...more
Relevancy. It has eluded the Toronto Raptors for nearly twenty years. Even more than competitive basketball, relevancy has been the brass ring that the Raptors have never quite been able to reach. Well, Tim Leiweke doesn't dabble in irrelevancy. Tim Chisholm has more on the hiring of the new president and CEO of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment. ...more
Why is it so hard to fire Bryan Colangelo? Outside of Toronto and its media cocoon, pundits have been calling for his ouster for years. After a string of disastrous and high-profile misfires, it's hard to find a person who follows the team from afar who believes that Colangelo should still have a job with the Raptors. Yet here they are, seven years later contemplating picking up his option year for at least one more tour of duty. ...more
These new Toronto Raptors, Dwane Casey's Raptors, were supposed to become defensive juggernauts. They were supposed to ascend the NBA ladder on the back of their stopping power. They were supposed to be the New Raptors, but two years in and they're just the same ol' club with a bunch of new players. Tim Chisholm has more. ...more
Who had a bigger impact on Toronto's season: Andrea Bargnani or Amir Johnson? Well, in my opinion they existed on opposite ends of the spectrum for the club. Bargnani existed on the negative end, while Johnson was nothing but a positive. ...more
$122.1 million. That's how much money the Toronto Raptors committed to their wing rotation over the last ten months. With the trade for Rudy Gay, the extension for DeMar DeRozan, the offer sheet for Landry Fields and the drafting of Terrence Ross, the Raptors coughed up an eye-popping sum for a total of zero All-Stars, a combined 43.1 per cent shooting percentage and for four players outside the top 100 in offensive and defensive rating. ...more
If you want an idea of how much upheaval this team has experienced since last season, the guards are where to look. At this time last season, we were discussing the future of Jose Calderon and Jerryd Bayless, with the spectre of Steve Nash looming in the distance. Today, there is only one name to mention, and that's Kyle Lowry. ...more
At what point does 'patience' become 'delusion'? It's a question Tim Chisholm's been noodling with as he prepares to write his annual end-of-season breakdowns of the various parts of the Raptors' core in anticipation of the end of Toronto's season next week. ...more
With the utter domination of Jose Calderon in the Toronto Raptors news cycle, now seems as good a time as any to have a frank chat about the state of affairs with regards to Toronto's point guard position (hint: it's not pretty). ...more
Was Bryan Colangelo playing the long-game last summer when he locked DeMar DeRozan to a four-year, $38 million contract? Tim Chisholm writes that the 23-year-old could become a valuable commodity on the trade market this summer due to a shallow free agent pool. ...more
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