For the first time since the league closed its doors nearly three months ago, the reigning NBA champion Raptors and 21 other teams can see light at the end of the tunnel, Josh Lewenberg writes.
In a conversation with ESPN's Rachel Nichols on Wednesday, Masai Ujiri said it's time "for all races to speak and to speak to each other...Because if we don’t, this cycle will continue.”
Pascal Siakam is no stranger to racism. He has experienced it and he sees it pretty regularly.What the Raptors all-star forward can’t fathom, and what he won’t accept, are those people who pretend they don’t see it.
Toronto Raptors team president Masai Ujiri called on the NBA 's leaders—specifically white leaders—to fight racism...
Pascal Siakam isn’t sure he knows what year it is anymore, but he is aware of one very important change that is coming.
It seems remarkably unimportant in light of bigger issues in the world, but news broke today that the NBA continues to march forward towards resuming play. Per Marc Stein, the NBA is intent on resuming in late July. Twenty two teams will be invited...
The league postponed the start of its season in April because of the coronavirus pandemic. The WNBA was supposed to begin play on May 15.
In the last twenty years alone, the team with homecourt advantage in the NBA finals has won the series 16 out of 20 times.This includes the Toronto Raptors.
The NBA wants to maintain strength of schedule and a sense of normalcy, but this plan wouldn’t work as intended.
In the wake of the tragic death of George Floyd, Toronto Raptors star Pascal Siakam is just the latest professional athlete to speak out on the nation’s situation as a whole. A Cameroonian born player, Siakam said he was profiled when he came to the...
The NBA has told the National Basketball Players Association that it will present a 22-team plan for restarting the season to the league’s board of governors on Thursday, a person with knowledge of the situation said.
The proposal is expected to go the NBA’s board of governors this week.
Now, I think its too ambitious with too many teams, too many chances for it to go off the rails and the longer lasting impact is going to be pretty hard to stomach in some places.
Guest host Mark Roe with Jamie McLennan and Jeff O’Neill are joined by ESPN NBA analyst Kendrick Perkins to discuss if he still is as confident the Raptors have a chance to repeat as NBA Champions as he did prior to the COVID-season pause.
