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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...
Culture of Hoops
Terrence Jones looks ready for takeoff
Image courtesy of thepanamerican . If you've read any of my other work here at Baller Mind Frame, you might have noticed a common theme. I enjoy basketball because there are very few standards. Sure,...
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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...
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Raptors' Terrence Ross scores franchise record 51 points
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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Los Angeles Clippers survive career night from Terrence Ross to defeat Raptors
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . With both teams in the second game of back-to-back contests, On Saturday night the Los Angeles Clippers were matched up against the Atlantic Division leading Toronto Raptors trying to...
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This is the Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan we've been waiting for
Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan have turned the Toronto Raptors around Masai Ujiri is the NBA equivalent of a mad scientist. A genius in his own way for sure but man does he have some...
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The Spunky Toronto Raptors
Image courtesy of Benson Kua/Flickr . The Toronto Raptors are 10-4 since the trade that sent Rudy Gay to the Sacramento Kings in exchange for Patrick Patterson, Chuck Hayes, Greivis Vazquez and John Salmons. Wins...
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Boos ring out in MSG as the Toronto Raptors defeat the New York Knicks
Image courtesy of Mathew Addie . In one of the uglier games you could have watched all season, the Toronto Raptors went into the Big Apple and came back from a double-digit deficit to defeat...
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Toronto Raptors topple the Dallas Mavericks
After losing a heart-breaker in overtime to the Charlotte Bobcats, the Toronto Raptors did not want history to repeat itself when they took the Dallas Mavericks into the extra frame last night. Luckily for the...
