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Toronto Raptors sharpshooter Danny Green has been receiving plenty of criticism for his shooting struggles in their series against the Philadelphia 76ers. However, longtime teammate Kawhi Leonard backed him up, noting he’s confident that Green will get over his slump. Leonard acknowledges that all players have gone thru struggles in the regular season. People are […]

The Toronto Raptors have the opportunity to eliminate the Orlando Magic from the playoffs on Tuesday, and swingman Danny Green believes that the team should not think about resting just yet. Following the Raptors’ 107-85 victory in Game 4, Green said that the series isn’t over until they win Game 5, adding that the Magic […]

Danny Green has witnessed a lot of big games from Kawhi Leonard before, but the Toronto Raptors guard said that Tuesday’s performance was one of the best from the superstar forward. Leonard finished with 37 points on 15-for-22 shooting from the field, including a 4-for-8 clip from beyond the arc. The 27-year-old superstar also posted […]

Toronto Raptors forward Danny Green revealed that he tweaked his ankle in the team’s 117-109 overtime win against the Miami Heat. Green said he will see how his ankle responds in tomorrow’s practice, but is optimistic that he won’t be missing significant amount of time because of it. Danny Green told me he tweaked his […]

Toronto Raptors shooting guard Danny Green hopes the Miami Heat make the playoffs for the Dwyane Wade. Wade is retiring at the end of this season. Basketball fans everywhere want to see Wade play in the postseason one final before he calls it a career. Raptors' Danny Green today on Wade, "I’m hoping they get […]

Breaking news: The Toronto Raptors… are very good. Sure, that might not be the most breaking news around, but it can’t be overstated how strong this Toronto squad is as they get set to make some noise in the postseason. Even without Kyle Lowry against the Los Angeles Lakers tonight, the Raptors rolled L.A. by […]

Serge Ibaka and Marquese Chriss got in a physical altercation during the third quarter of the game between the Toronto Raptors and the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday. The fight began when both players exchanged verbal jabs that led to Ibaka doing some type of a choke hold on Chriss, who retaliated by throwing multiple punches. […]

There was once a time when Danny Green rocked the Cleveland Cavaliers colors proudly. Sure, it may have been for a total of 115 regular-season minutes during his rookie season in 2009-10, appearing in 20 combined games off the bench, but that was the franchise that drafted the Long Island product in the second round […]

The Toronto Raptors were unable to defend their home turf against the Houston Rockets on Tuesday night. It appears shooting guard Danny Green has an idea of what attributed to their current struggles. The Raptors have made some significant changes to their roster over the last year. According to Josh Lewenberg of TSN Sports, Green […]

Danny Green of the Toronto Raptors has received a bunch of technical fouls this season. Despite this, he’s hoping that they’ll get rescinded after a review by the officials. Via Twitter, Green responded Harrison D. Sanford’s observation that he’s got more technical fouls this season that his entire career combined. They are under review to […]

Newly-minted Toronto Raptors teammates Danny Green and Jeremy Lin know where the other is coming from. Both are products of the NBA’s D-League (now referred to as the G League) as neither Green nor Lin was given the advantage of being a first-round draft choice upon their arrival in the league. In a sit-down discussion […]

The Toronto Raptors have already become a steady presence at the top of the Eastern Conference standings over the years, but shooting guard Danny Green thinks that the team can be among the NBA’s elite. Green recently spoke to Alex Kennedy of HoopsHype about the Raptors’ title prospects this season: “I think we can be […]

Toronto Raptors power forward Pascal Siakam was one of the more notable snubs from this year’s all-star game. However, shooting guard Danny Green still thinks he is deserving of some recognition at the end of the 2018-19 NBA season. Siakam’s emergence has been of the biggest surprises of the 2018-19 NBA season. According to Alex […]

The Toronto Raptors are one of the top teams in the NBA, but in an improving Eastern Conference, getting to the finals will be a difficult task. Fortunately for the Raptors, they have a pair of players with championship experience on their roster in Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green. The duo went to back-to-back finals […]

When Danny Green was with the San Antonio Spurs, he had many battles with Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol. Now that they are both with the Toronto Raptors, Green is excited that he and Gasol are finally teammates after years of going against each other. The Raptors acquired Gasol from the Grizzlies at the trade […]

For some, NBA All-Star Weekend is serious. It’s about recognizing the game’s best players and seeing them all compete on the same floor. For others, though, the weekend is just about fun. It’s safe to say that Toronto Raptors shooting guard Danny Green fits into the latter category. On Saturday’s media day, he grabbed a […]

Toronto Raptors guard Danny Green had a very interesting comparison for Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic, calling the All-Star a “big man octopus”: danny green just described nikola jokic as a “big man octopus” pic.twitter.com/i55TKfyIL3 — James Herbert (@outsidethenba) February 16, 2019 Because that’s not weird at all or anything. But obviously, Green meant it […]

The NBA All-Star Weekend is here and Saturday’s Three-Point Contest is set to be the main event for those who have grown disappointed of the lack of fireworks from the Dunk Contest in recent years. There will be 10 participants for the first time in the history of the league, a field full of sharpshooters […]

According to Blake Murphy of The Athletic, the Toronto Raptors have listed shooting guard Danny Green as probable for their game against the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday due to left hand soreness. Danny Green is being listed as probable for tomorrow. Dealing with left hand soreness. — Blake Murphy (@BlakeMurphyODC) January 26, 2019 Green was […]

Toronto Raptors shooting guard Danny Green has drawn the unenviable task of containing James Harden in Saturday’s matchup against the Houston Rockets. Harden is always a tough player to check, but the fact that he dropped a career-high 61 points against the New York Knicks on Wednesday night makes this matchup a bit more intriguing. […]

Boston Celtics guard Kyrie Irving’s magisterial ball handling was put on display yet again during Wednesday’s matchup against the Toronto Raptors, and it had Danny Green quickly trying to recover. Kyrie so crafty 🎨 pic.twitter.com/TPYDqFFS0I — ESPN (@espn) January 17, 2019 Irving returned to action for the Celtics after sitting out Monday’s loss to the […]

Toronto Raptors shooting guard Danny Green says star small forward Kawhi Leonard didn’t quit on the San Antonio Spurs last season. Leonard played in just nine games last year due to a quadriceps injury. The two-time All-Star was reportedly cleared by team doctors to play late in the season, but never received clearance from his […]

Toronto Raptors forward Kawhi Leonard has spent his entire NBA career playing alongside shooting guard Danny Green, as the two were shipped together in a trade that sent DeMar DeRozan and Jakob Poeltl to San Antonio. Despite the comfort level Green has around Leonard, a rather quiet individual, he’s not fond of the “whisperer” label […]

In their game against the Toronto Spurs, the San Antonio Spurs played a tribute video for Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green. Here’s a video of that tribute for the two former Spurs stars, via Jabari Young of The Athletic. The video intro thank you #Spurs #Raptors pic.twitter.com/ztXguCmuWm — Jabari Young (@JabariJYoung) January 4, 2019 As […]

As expected, San Antonio Spurs fans booed Toronto Raptors small forward Kawhi Leonard when he was introduced in the starting lineups on Thursday. Kawhi Leonard only played in nine games last season with the Spurs due to a lingering quadriceps injury. Leonard was cleared to play by team doctors, but he was never cleared by […]

It has been a highly successful 2018-19 season for the Toronto Raptors so far despite losing both their head coach at the end of last season’s playoff run and their franchise player to a trade with the San Antonio Spurs. But the injury bug has hit them quite a bit the past few weeks with […]

As a color commentator, sometimes it’s difficult to keep up with all the player movement across leagues. Teams trade and release players nearly every week. Sometimes, a TV announcer forgets who’s on which team. That was the case for the broadcast crew of the Miami Heat versus the Toronto Raptors, when the play-by-play announcer said […]

Danny Green knocked down a huge 3-pointer to cap off the Toronto Raptors’ big 106-104 comeback win over the Miami Heat on Wednesday night at AmericanAirlines Arena. The Heat led by as many as 17 points and almost pulled off a huge upset against the heavily favored Raptors. Justise Winslow gave the Heat a one-point […]

The Toronto Raptors smashed the Golden State Warriors 113-93 on Wednesday night, despite not having superstar Kawhi Leonard available for the second consecutive game. Even without Leonard, Stephen Curry and the Warriors suffered through a nightmarish offensive performance, going 6-of-26 on 3-pointers and turning the ball over 19 times. Curry had arguably his worst showing […]

Despite numerous high-caliber wins, shooting guard Danny Green doesn’t think his NBA-leading Toronto Raptors are the best in the league just yet. “We may have the best record but I don’t think we’re the best team in the league, or even in the East right now,” Green told Adam Zagoria of Forbes SportsMoney. “We have […]

Toronto Raptors forward Danny Green believes that his team needs to create the mindset of taking every opponent seriously. The Raptors are in the midst of an eight-game winning streak, but it sounds like Green and company aren’t looking to get complacent after their impressive 20-4 start. Here’s what Green had to say following Toronto’s […]

In a beautifully set play, Danny Green of the Toronto Raptors hit the game-winning shot to lift his team over the Orlando Magic. Check out the clip as posted by Dime. As observed, the whole play was set up for Green, who was at the opposite side of the court. As the play developed, Green […]

When the Toronto Raptors traded All-Star DeMar DeRozan to the San Antonio Spurs, not many paid much attention to the other guy who came with Kawhi Leonard. Aside from Leonard, the Raptors also acquired the services of Danny Green. Aside from being a streaky shooter, Green is a very good defender and has high basketball […]

The Toronto Raptors will welcome forward Serge Ibaka back in the starting lineup, while forwards Norm Powell and C.J. Miles remain out for Friday’s showdown against the Boston Celtics, according to ESPN’s Tim Bontemps. Shooting guard Danny Green, who exited Wednesday’s game against the Detroit Pistons in the third quarter, will be active after dealing […]

The Toronto Raptors defeated the New York Knicks Saturday afternoon at home, and shooting guard Danny Green reached a career milestone. Green, one of the best three-point shooters in the NBA, hit his 1,000th career shot from beyond the arc against the Knicks. Milestone Alert! #WeTheNorth pic.twitter.com/gCu1vTq1Lo — Toronto Raptors (@Raptors) November 10, 2018 The […]

The Toronto Raptors are 2-0 on the young season, and the two players they acquired this summer from the San Antonio Spurs, All-Star small forward Kawhi Leonard and shooting guard Danny Green, teamed up to make a stellar defensive play against Boston Celtics second-year swingman Jayson Tatum in the fourth quarter of Friday’s game. Tatum […]

The Toronto Raptors scored a huge opening night victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers, 116-104. The game also featured Kawhi Leonard’s first game at Air Canada Centre, where fans gave him all the love in the world. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for his teammate Danny Green, whom Leonard has played several years with going […]

Toronto Raptors Danny Green will be adapting to a new team for the first time since his rookie season after being drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers and consequently landing with the San Antonio Spurs. Following this summer’s trade that landed him and Kawhi Leonard in The Great North, Green knows building chemistry will be a […]

Over the past two days, Toronto Raptors swingman Danny Green has been dropping hints on his social media accounts. His posts, which are clearly Puma-related, seem to indicate that he has a new shoe deal on the way. Green’s first Puma-related Instagram post was sent on Monday. The clip features a wildlife scene in which […]