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From Feel-Good to Fearsome: A threat looms in Toronto
Image courtesy of Adam Bailey/Flickr . It was just a nice story at first: the plucky, young Toronto Raptors finding an identity, exceeding expectations, and pressing toward their first playoff berth since 2008. The Dinos...
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Toronto Raptors: Second round bound?
Image courtesy of Matthew Addie/Flickr . Can DeMar Derozan's shoulders carry the weight of the second round of the NBA playoffs? We are just days removed from the end of the 2013-14 NBA season and...
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NBA Expectations: Players making the leap to elite
The way to self-improvement is to always have goals that are unreachable, and that applies to life as well as basketball, especially if basketball is a big part of your life. If you’re close to...
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Toronto Raptors: Failures at tanking
Image courtesy of Matthew Addie/Flickr . We’re living in an upside down universe of condoned tanking (or, in Commissioner Adam Silver’s very first bit of spin, “rebuilding”). No fewer than eight teams are actively angling...
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From Amidst the Ashes: The Unexpected Rise of The Toronto Raptors
Image courtesy of Adam Bailey/Flickr . There’s no getting around it: the Eastern Conference is putrid this year. So putrid, in fact, that its fiercest debate concentrates not on which team reigns supreme, but instead...
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Sacramento Kings go north of the border, but their game goes south
Image courtesy of RMTip21 | Flickr The team Rudy Gay was exiled from in December looked different upon his return to Toronto Friday. When he was traded, the Toronto Raptors had a sub-.500 record, but...
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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 Lanton . Check it often and absorb the knowledge we're dropping on...
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Week 15 NBA Power Rankings from the Bassline
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . Including Kevin Durant, only six players in NBA history have averaged 31-plus points with seven or more rebounds and five or more assists: Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson,...
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Surprisingly good teams of the first half of the NBA season
Image courtesy of Josh Hallett/Flickr . As the NBA season grows longer and longer, we begin to get a better picture of the teams who are ready to contend, and those who are on the...
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Toronto Raptors coast to victory over Orlando Magic
Image courtesy of RMTip21/Flickr . After losing the first two games on a three-game road trip, the Orlando Magic traveled north of the border to take on the Toronto Raptors. The meeting was the first...
