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NBA free agency: Change of shape in the Eastern Conference
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . As the 2014 NBA free agency crept up on us, rumors ran abundant. Some realistic, such as Chris Bosh to the Houston Rockets; some not so much, such as...
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Toronto Raptors: It's so hard to say goodbye; it's even harder to say hello
Image courtesy of Matthew Addie/Flickr . Normally in these pieces that I write up on this fine website, I write (well, try to anyways) about what a team does, how they're fostering success and some...
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Raptors' head coach Dwane Casey agrees to extension
Image courtesy of Adam Bailey/Flickr . 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 It didn’t take long for...
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Brooklyn Nets vs. Toronto Raptors: Adjustments between Games 4 and 5
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . One of the great things about the NBA playoffs is the tactical adjustments that coaches and teams make during a series. Switching up substitution patterns, making different configurations in...
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Brooklyn Nets vs. Toronto Raptors: The Andray Blatche Cameo
Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . He only played 18:02 in Game 3, took three shots and had three personal fouls in that time span, but there was such a profound presence when Andray Blatche...
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Brooklyn Nets vs. Toronto Raptors Game 2: This is Getting Good
In the immortal words of Rasheed Wallace, "both teams played hard." Game 2 between the Brooklyn Nets and Toronto Raptors wasn't the prettiest game. Hell there were periods during the first three quarters where the...
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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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Houston Rockets seeing mixed results during injured stretch
Following the injuries to Patrick Beverley's meniscus and Dwight Howard's ankle, it was understood that the Houston Rockets would need to rely heavily on the two players who had dominated trade talks just months earlier:...
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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...
