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Kawhi Leonard’s lingering leg injury is one the Toronto Raptors have expressed some concern for, as he was seen limping his way to a Game 3 overtime win and favoring his right leg during Game 4 of the series. However, coach Nick Nurse stood firm with his take that the superstar forward is fine to […]

With hopes of making Kawhi Leonard stay with the Toronto Raptors long term, a real estate company has offered to give the defensive stalwart a multi-million penthouse for free. Simon Mass, CEO of The Condo Store Realty Inc., has offered Leonard a multi-million-dollar penthouse in downtown Toronto if he signs long term with the Raptors. […]

Kendrick Perkins has chimed in on the Eastern Conference Finals between the Toronto Raptors and the Milwaukee Bucks. For him, Giannis Antetokounmpo — the leading candidate for MVP — is being exposed by defensive stalwart Kawhi Leonard in the series. As posted by Speak For Yourself, Leonard — amid his ailing right leg — is […]

Milwaukee Bucks head coach Mike Budenholzer will likely take home his second Coach of the Year award this season after leading the Bucks to 60 wins and generally trouncing their competition en route to the best record in the NBA. The Bucks mostly sleepwalked through the first two round of the Eastern Conference Playoffs, but […]

Should the Toronto Raptors be concerned about Kawhi Leonard? FOX Sports analyst Chris Broussard thinks so. With Leonard clearly playing through pain as seen in Games 3 and 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals, Broussard wonders if the Raptors All-Star forward is breaking down. "Kawhi's body may be breaking down on him. … That would […]

Anyone questioning the prudence of “load management” need look no further than the playoff performance of Kawhi Leonard. Limited to 60 games during the regular season due to scheduled rest after he missed most of last year with tendinopathy in his right quadriceps, Leonard has arguably been the league’s best player in the postseason, taking […]

The Toronto Raptors won Games 3 and 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals with Kawhi Leonard laboring. Now, as this series shifts back to the Milwaukee Bucks’ home court for the first of a best-of-three, comes news that the Raptors’ second-best player is experiencing major discomfort, too. On Wednesday, Nick Nurse elaborated on the extent […]

Even as shifting Kawhi Leonard onto Giannis Antetokounmpo has made a huge difference in the Eastern Conference Finals, the Toronto Raptors would no doubt prefer if they had another viable defender of the league’s MVP frontrunner available. Unfortunately for Nick Nurse’s team, though, O.G. Anunoby likely won’t be healthy enough to return to the floor […]

Milwaukee Bucks head coach Mike Budenholzer says “there’s no place” for Toronto Raptors ambassador and rapper Drake to be going out on the court. In Games 3 and 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals, Drake talked a lot of trash to Bucks superstar swingman Giannis Antetokounmpo. Drake was also on the Raptors sideline in Game […]

Scotiabank Arena was absolutely rocking on Tuesday night. Fueled by lingering excitement of their team’s stunning double-overtime win 48 hours earlier, Toronto Raptors fans were loud from the opening tip to the final buzzer of Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals, another Toronto victory over the Milwaukee Bucks that evened this series at two […]

Kawhi Leonard clearly wasn’t himself in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Limited by an injury to his left leg suffered in Game 3, the Toronto Raptors superstar sorely lacked his normal burst and explosion on Tuesday night, forcing him to take more of a backseat offensively than he has for any other game […]

Golden State Warriors power forward Draymond Green doesn’t really care who the Dubs play in the NBA Finals. The Warriors will face either the Toronto Raptors or Milwaukee Bucks. The Raptors and Bucks are tied at 2-2 in the Eastern Conference Finals. Game 1 of the NBA Finals is on May 30. Green is confident […]

If you’ve been watching the Toronto Raptors and Milwaukee Bucks face off in the Eastern Conference Finals, you’ve definitely seen hip-hop superstar Drake in the front row. The Canadian rapper is a huge Raptors fan and has been a mainstay in the courtside seats during the playoff run. Drake has already accrued some camera worth […]

The NBA has announced the 2018-19 season’s All-Defensive teams, starring some of the most notable stalwarts in the game. #NBA All-Defensive First and Second Teams have been announced: pic.twitter.com/QOqj4hCj40 — Ryan Ward (@RyanWardLA) May 22, 2019 The Milwaukee Bucks were the big winners and to no surprise, after posting the best defensive rating in the […]

What a difference two games make. The Toronto Raptors trounced the Milwaukee 120-102 on Tuesday night, evening an Eastern Conference Finals that had just appeared lopsided at two games apiece. As this tightly-contested series shifts back to Fiserv Forum for Game 5, it becomes a best-of-three, with the winner moving on to get the chance […]

The Milwaukee Bucks were hoping to take a commanding 3-1 series lead over the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday night, but that did not end up happening. Not only did they end up losing the game, the Raptors blew them out by a final score of 120-102. Fans and the media are shocked that a Raptors […]

Kawhi Leonard and Nick Nurse both downplayed the Toronto Raptors star’s health concerns after a Game 4 shellacking of the Milwaukee Bucks in the Eastern Conference Finals. However, Leonard was clearly gimpy throughout the game, and veteran wing Danny Green admitted his longtime teammate is playing through pain. Via Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated’s The […]

Serge Ibaka, obviously, was feeling pretty, pretty good after Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals, and rightfully so. On the postgame podium following a standout individual performance in his team’s crucial victory over the Milwaukee Bucks, the Toronto Raptors big man showed off his multilingual tongue, seamlessly switching from speaking English to French to […]

The “Kawhi effect” is something the Toronto Raptors have experienced for most of this season, a gravitational pull which they had not seen with former shooting guard DeMar DeRozan in past seasons. Point guard Kyle Lowry has reaped the benefits of having a player of Leonard’s caliber in the lineup, as it was his shot-making […]

Toronto Raptors All-Star Kawhi Leonard was experiencing pain in both legs during Tuesday night’s matchup against the Milwaukee Bucks in the Eastern Conference Finals. Though he had a noticeable hobble in his gait at times, Raptors head coach Nick Nurse believes Leonard will be fine going forward: “Yeah, we were concerned,” Nurse said after Tuesday’s […]

The Milwaukee Bucks took a 2-0 lead to Scotiabank Arena and are now coming back home to the Fiserv Forum with the series against the Toronto Raptors tied after four games. Bucks swingman Pat Connaughton has seen this series evolve into a dogfight, one he admits is a new development for this young team: “It […]

The Toronto Raptors have evened up their best-of-seven series with the Milwaukee Bucks at two games apiece with a dominant 120-102 victory in Game 4. With the series headed to a pivotal Game 5, Bucks forward Khris Middleton is getting ready for a dog fight on Thursday, per Malika Andrews of ESPN. Khris Middleton: “The […]

The Toronto Raptors have gone from being one of the best teams in the NBA when it comes to bench production to one that has struggled to get shots to fall from the second unit. That narrative changed in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Milwaukee Bucks, as Fred VanVleet had his […]

The Milwaukee Bucks starters were determined to have a much better shooting night after the trio of Giannis Antetokounmpo, Khris Middleton and Eric Bledsoe combined to shoot a ghastly 22.9% from the field in Game 3 against the Toronto Raptors. Antetokounmpo did his part, pouring in 25 points and 10 rebounds while shooting over 50%. […]

The Milwaukee Bucks expected a huge bounce-back Game 4 after falling short in an overtime loss to the Toronto Raptors in Game 3 of the series. Yet the Bucks locker room was “eerily silent” after they were handed a 120-102 loss on Tuesday night, now going back home with the series tied 2-2. “Players didn’t […]

After a series of struggles in the playoffs, Toronto Raptors guard Fred VanVleet put up an inspired performance in their Game 4 win over the Milwaukee Bucks. As it turned out, VanVleet’s motivation was his newborn son. VanVleet admitted that his son, Fred Jr., inspired his Game 4 performance. The 25-year-old guard scored 13 points […]

The Toronto Raptors were able to tie their Eastern Conference Finals series against the Milwaukee Bucks at 2-2 with a huge 120-102 victory. It was a huge win for the franchise and it makes the series a best-of-three event. Game 5 will shift back to Milwaukee on Thursday night. Following the game, Drake made his […]

Kawhi Leonard wasn’t one bit bothered by his obvious leg issue after the Toronto Raptors’ Game 4 victory against the Milwaukee Bucks. Leonard had seemingly suffered the injury during Toronto’s double-overtime win in Game 3. However, Leonard is not concerned about it as he is more focused in making history with the Raptors. “I feel […]

In the least surprising NBA news of the night, former Los Angeles Lakers president Magic Johnson sent out an extremely amusing Tweet about his basketball-viewing plans for the evening. Ahead of Game 4 in the Eastern Conference Finals between the Toronto Raptors and Milwaukee Bucks, Johnson provided an innocuous update on his snacking plans for […]

The Toronto Raptors have given celebrity fan Drake a custom team jacket jersey. Team president Masai Uriji presented Drake with the custom jacket jersey before Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Raptors and Milwaukee Bucks on May 21, per NBA on ESPN’s official Twitter account. The @Raptors presented Drake with a custom […]

The Toronto Raptors managed to secure a much-needed win in Game 4 against the Milwaukee Bucks, and head coach Nick Nurse and Drake could not help but share their excitement. The Raptors managed to swing the momentum in their favor and began building on their lead early in the fourth quarter. Drake even made sure […]

Renowned Canadian rapper and songwriter Drake continues to make headlines…but not because of his songs. Drake has been making waves with his antics while watching Toronto Raptors games in the 2019 NBA Playoffs, and that continued in Game 4 against the Milwaukee Bucks. The 32-year-old artist was seen trolling Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo during the […]

Toronto Raptors fans have begun a “Ka’Wine and Dine” initiative to convince superstar Kawhi Leonard to stay in Toronto. Raptors Republic’s official Twitter account posted a video of NBA on TNT’s Kristen Ledlow describing the campaign during a timeout in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals. We made it on @NBAonTNT everyone! #KaWineandDine #WeTheNorth […]

The Toronto Raptors and Milwaukee Bucks are locked in a tight battle for supremacy in the Eastern Conference Finals, with both teams tallying tight wins over the course of the first three games of the series. In Game 4, the Bucks will be looking to bounce back after a double-overtime defeat at the hands of […]

The Toronto Raptors are now back in the fight for the Eastern Conference crown and a spot in the NBA Finals after beating the Milwaukee Bucks in Game 4. After a tight opening period, the Raptors pulled away in the second quarter and never looked back en route to a convincing 120-102 victory at Scotiabank […]

Though only one Conference Finals series has been decided in the 2019 NBA Playoffs, the league released the full schedule for what should be a scintillating series between the Golden State Warriors and the winner of the Toronto Raptors/Milwaukee Bucks Eastern Conference Finals battle, which is ongoing. The schedule was released by the NBA, then […]

Toronto Raptors forward Kawhi Leonard just put Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo in a poster. In a nifty half-court play, Marc Gasol slipped in a pass to a cutting Leonard. The Klaw took care of business by spiking it all over Antetokounmpo using his left hand. Kawhi went right at Giannis at the rim…AND WON […]

NBA Hall of Famer and now an outspoken studio analyst Charles Barkley declared the Toronto Raptors as the presumptive victors of Game 4 for Tuesday night’s Eastern Conference Finals matchup against the Milwaukee Bucks who leads 2-1. Sir Charles guarantees another Raptors win ahead of Game 4 (via @NBAonTNT)pic.twitter.com/0zidvxkDwk — The Crossover (@TheCrossover) May 22, […]

Toronto Raptors shooting guard Danny Green honored Craig Sager and Stuart Scott before Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday. Sager and Scott were two of the best sports reporters in the business. Scott passed away in 2015 after he lost his battle with cancer. Sager passed away in […]