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Toronto Raptors President Masai Ujiri made the firing of seven-year head coach Dwane Casey official on Friday morning with a statement, but apparently, the writing was actually on the wall after Game 3 of their second round series against the Cleveland Cavaliers. “After careful consideration, I have decided this is a very difficult but necessary […]

A day after being named the Coach of the Year by the National Basketball Coaches Association, Dwane Casey was fired by the Toronto Raptors after securing a franchise record 59 wins, but getting swept in the second round. “After careful consideration, I have decided this is a very difficult but necessary step the franchise must […]

The Toronto Raptors season came to another disappointing end at the hands of the Cleveland Cavaliers in the postseason. As a result, Toronto has quickly decided to part ways with head coach Dwayne Casey. Just after their season came to an end, All-Star point guard Kyle Lowry immediately defended coach Casey in his end-of-season interview […]

With the Toronto Raptors firing Dwane Casey after the team failed to get by the Cleveland Cavaliers for the third straight year, the coaching search will start immediately to find their next head coach. Toronto has fired coach Dwane Casey, league source tells ESPN. — Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 11, 2018 With the roster that […]

The Toronto Raptors have decided to fire head coach Dwane Casey after getting swept by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the second round of the playoffs. Toronto has fired coach Dwane Casey, league source tells ESPN. — Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 11, 2018 Casey led the Raptors to the top seed in the Eastern Conference this […]

The season wasn’t supposed to end in the first round of the playoffs for Paul George. He went to the Oklahoma City Thunder in the hopes of expanding his horizons other than going to the L.A. Lakers in the 2018 offseason. The Lakers weren’t willing to give up any of their young players to acquire […]

On paper, the Toronto Raptors might be the better team than the Indiana Pacers. After all, the Raptors locked the first seed in the Eastern Conference. The Pacers were just fifth. But another look at how the playoffs turned out, it seems that the Pacers are the far superior team. As observed by Reddit user The_Unknown98: […]

The Toronto Raptors seem to be doing a lot of soul-searching after being eliminated by the Cleveland Cavaliers for the third year in a row.  For DeMar DeRozan, he said on Tuesday that this is the lowest feeling he has ever had. “This is probably the toughest, most frustrating, difficult, lowest feeling I’ve had,” DeMar […]

The storyline about how the series would flow between the Toronto Raptors and the Cleveland Cavaliers quickly flipped after the road team’s Game 1 victory. The Raptors were up big in Game 1 before the Cavaliers came storming back to steal a win. Near the end of regulation, the Raptors had countless attempts to hit […]

There are plenty of details for Toronto Raptors head coach Dwane Casey to mull over throughout the summer as he tries to piece together exactly what happened to his team this postseason as it ended in disastrous results. Wednesday afternoon brought the coach’s exit interview. He answered questions from reporters and gave his thoughts about […]

The Toronto Raptors got swept by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the second round of the playoffs. No one thought that would happen. In fact, many thought this was Toronto’s year. But the Cavaliers and LeBron James seem to have something over the Raptors — the mental edge. This playoffs was the third in a row […]

Toronto Raptors head coach Dwane Casey has earned a unique honor from his peers. According to several reports, Casey has been selected as the National Basketball Coaches Association’s Coach of the Year for the 2017-18 season. Dwane Casey named recipient of the 2018 Michael H. Goldberg NBCA Coach of the Year Award. Official announcement: https://t.co/oABrLGcIb8#NBACoaches […]

Head coach Dwane Casey is now in the hot seat after his Toronto Raptors were swept out of the playoffs for a second straight season by the Cleveland Cavaliers. Even after re-engineering a different offensive system to take the pressure away from his All-Star backcourt of Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan, both stars were flattened […]

Drake loves his Toronto Raptors — like he loves the other 97 (and counting) other teams he cheers for — so just imagine the degree of pain he had to go through watching LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers subject the Raptors to four games of medieval-style torture in the Eastern Conference semifinals. The torment […]

DeMar DeRozan and the Toronto Raptors have gone through a lot together. They have improved the last few years, but the same roadblock is always at the end of their road, the Cleveland Cavaliers. Last offseason, they actually changed their entire offensive philosophy to try and get through LeBron James, but once again they ended […]

The narrative unfortunately continues for the Toronto Raptors: another year, another disappointing finish. As a result of a third straight series loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers in which the Raptors have lost 12 of the 14 playoff games, it could be time to make a major change. To no one’s surprise, head coach Dwane Casey […]

Fred Van Vleet’s stock has gone from nonexistent to through-the-roof in the span of this regular season, going from a third-string point guard to the key backup to the All-Star backcourt duo of Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan, expected to command a savory offer from other teams as a restricted free agent. The Virginia Commonwealth […]

Following a second consecutive sweep out of the Eastern Conference semifinals, the Toronto Raptors could pull the trigger on what most thought would take place after last season — a coaching change. Head coach Dwane Casey talked with the Toronto brass last season and mutually agreed to make pivotal changes in his coaching approach, but […]

The Toronto Raptors were supposed to be a better team ahead of a playoffs rematch with LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers this year, but nothing in their Eastern Conference Finals supported that type of expectation. Just like last year, the Raptors were mercilessly swept by Cleveland in the second round even though the Raptors […]

After locking in the first seed in the Eastern Conference, the Toronto Raptors threw it all away by being swept in the second round of the playoffs. This makes them the first top seed in 49 years to get swept before the conference finals. According to statistics culled by Basketball-Reference.com, the only other team to […]

What now for the Toronto Raptors? After the Cleveland Cavaliers dropped the guillotine on the Raps on Monday night to sweep the team from north of the border, Toronto is now left with many questions to answer in the offseason. For Raptors shooting guard DeMar DeRozan, among the uncertainties the team would tackle is whether […]

Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James owns the Toronto Raptors, plain and simple. During the last offseason, the Raptors completely changed their style of offense with the idea of finally getting past the Cavs, but that still wasn’t enough as the Raptors were swept in the second round series. LeBron James (34.0 PPG, 11.3 APG, 8.3 […]

With the Toronto Raptors a loss away from another playoff exit at the hands of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Dwane Casey’s days as head coach of the team appear to be numbered. The Raptors ended the regular season as the No. 1 team in the Eastern Conference but is having a difficult time winning games in […]

Toronto Raptors team President Masai Ujiri’s wallet got a little lighter over the weekend after he was fined $25,000 by the NBA for walking onto the court during halftime of Game 3 to confront the game officials. Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri has been fined $25,000 by the NBA for walking on court in Game […]

The Toronto Raptors find themselves in a familiarly-grim territory, down 3-0 in the Eastern Conference semifinal series and now forced to battle for their playoff lives with an awful-steep mountain to climb against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Head coach Dwane Casey is aware of the importance of an upcoming Game 4, one which could potentially spell […]

The end is drawing near for the top-seeded Toronto Raptors. After getting the best of John Wall and the Washington Wizards in the first round of the NBA playoffs, DeMar DeRozan and company have had no answer for LeBron James’ Cleveland Cavaliers in the second round. Facing a third straight loss against the Cavs in […]

For Toronto Raptors head coach Dwane Casey, his team’s misfortune against the Cleveland Cavaliers continued on Saturday night when they lost their ninth consecutive postseason game to the Cavs and now face a 3-0 series deficit in the Eastern Conference Semifinals. DeMar DeRozan should take some of the blame, but more on that in a […]

LeBron James did it again on Saturday night to the Toronto Raptors. After having a big lead for most of the game the Toronto Raptors got back into the game and gave their fans some hope that they just might be able to get back into the series. James then decided he had enough of […]

In the playoffs, you do not want to be down three games to none. It is very well documented that a team that is on the bottom end of that has never come back to win the series. It has been foolproof since a seven game series has become the norm, that it gets brought […]

It happened yet again to the Eastern Conference’s top-seeded Toronto Raptors. Cleveland Cavaliers superstar forward LeBron James heroics down the stretch of Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals broke the Raptors hearts with a game-winner off the glass for a stunning 105-103 for the Cavs. After the stunning loss, Raptors star point guard Kyle […]

Pascal Siakam’s journey to the NBA was a long and difficult one. He came from Cameroon, abut 6,000 miles away from where he plays now — for the Toronto Raptors. But now that he’s a bench player on one of the best teams in the NBA, he’s having the time of his life, and working […]

Following Friday morning practice session in Toronto, Raptors head coach Dwane Casey spoke to members of the media with regards to what his team needs a bit more of. Now that they’re facing a 2-0 deficit in their Eastern Conference Semifinals matchup against the Cleveland Cavaliers, coach Casey is calling for more “grit and toughness” […]

In a suddenly half empty Air Canada Centre, LeBron James stood on the court with a towel draped over his shoulders, explaining the Cleveland Cavaliers’ 128-110 victory over the Toronto Raptors in Game 2. The crowd—at least, what remained of it—was stunned into silence. Toronto, as our own James Holas explained, spent an entire year […]

The Toronto Raptors are back in a familiar place. After a fantastic regular season that saw them lock up the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference, the Raptors find themselves again in the same exact place they were in a year ago: down 0-2 in the second round of the playoffs against the same […]

Drake is a fixture courtside at Toronto Raptors games, and he has always done his fair share of talking on the sidelines. But with his beloved Raptors down 2-0 to the Cleveland Cavaliers, there hasn’t been a ton to trash talk about. But that doesn’t mean that people are afraid to chirp at the vocal […]

The Air Canada Centre was deafeningly silent in the third quarter of Game 2 with the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers were manhandling the home team, the Toronto Raptors. At the center of the melee was LeBron James, who was (again) orchestrating the devastation. Except for a smattering of “oohs-and-ahhs,” there was virtually nothing for the crowd to […]

LeBron James dominated Game 2 of the Cleveland Cavaliers second round series against the Toronto Raptors on Thursday night, putting up 43 points, 14 assists, and eight rebounds helping the Cavs to a 2-0 series lead. Mark Jones of ESPN was so impressed by James’ utter dominance that at the end of the third quarter, […]

This year’s NBA Playoffs feature a number of fresh figures. The Philadelphia 76ers have sort of completed The Process just by making it to the postseason. The goal is always to win an NBA title, but a playoffs appearance must feel like bathing in liquid velvet for Philly. Donovan Mitchell, Jayson Tatum, Joel Embiid, Ben […]

After a heated post-game exchange with the Cleveland Cavalier’s reserve center Kendrick Perkins following Game 1, passionate Toronto Raptors fan and team ambassador Drake hasn’t exactly endeared himself to Cavs fans. Or just basketball fans in general — who simply couldn’t resist poking fun at several shots of the Canadian’s sullen expression as his beloved […]