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NBA Season Preview: Toronto Raptors Team Preview

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Brooklyn Nets vs. Toronto Raptors: Adjustments between Games 4 and 5

One of the great things about the NBA playoffs is the tactical adjustments that coaches and teams make during a series. Switching...

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Brooklyn Nets vs. Toronto Raptors: The Andray Blatche Cameo

He only played 18:02 in Game 3, took three shots and had three personal fouls in that time span, but there was...

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Brooklyn vs Toronto Game 1: The Truth and Iso-Joe punish the Raptors

Game one, to borrow a cliché is “a feeling out process.” The Brooklyn Nets and Toronto Raptors played like two teams feeling...

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From Feel-Good to Fearsome: A threat looms in Toronto

It was just a nice story at first: the plucky, young Toronto Raptors finding an identity, exceeding expectations, and pressing toward their...

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Toronto Raptors: Second round bound?

We are just days removed from the end of the 2013-14 NBA season and everyone’s talking about the top-seeded teams in either...

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Toronto Raptors: Failures at tanking

We’re living in an upside down universe of condoned tanking (or, in Commissioner Adam Silver’s very first bit of spin, “rebuilding”). No...

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From Amidst the Ashes: The Unexpected Rise of The Toronto Raptors

There’s no getting around it: the Eastern Conference is putrid this year. So putrid, in fact, that its fiercest debate concentrates not...

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Washington Wizards outlast Toronto Raptors in compelling triple OT thriller

Baller Mind Frame’s No Layups brings you the hottest NBA stories on the web mixed with personal opinion from our very own Aaron...

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John Wall leads East to win in NBA All-Star Slam Dunk Contest

Baller Mind Frame’s No Layups brings you the hottest NBA stories on the web mixed with personal opinion from our very own Aaron...