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After landing with the Chicago Bulls two seasons ago, DeRozan’s time in Toronto came full circle. In this season’s Play-In tournament, DeRozan’s daughter yelled every time a Raptor went up to the free throw line and it may have cost them their season. Unfortunately for DeRozan, the Bulls were then eliminated from NBA playoff contention by […]
The Toronto Raptors have fired head coach Nick Nurse, per Shams Charania. In 2020, Nurse signed a four-year deal that would have kept him in Toronto through the 2023-24 season. In a team statement, president Masai Ujiri thanked him for being “an integral part of this franchise’s most historic accomplishments” and that “a decision to make a […]
As homegrown stars that have played their entire careers in one place, O.G. Anunoby and Fred VanVleet are exceptions to the modern pro-basketball rule. The 25-year-old forward and 28-year-old guard practically grew up in Toronto, which is increasingly rare in a league that seems to shuffle the deck every six months. VanVleet came as an undrafted […]
The Toronto Raptors issued an apology Thursday for their cringeworthy video acknowledging Women’s History Month. The clip begins with a prompt reading, “Beyoncé said girls run the world. Why do you think that’s true?” Malachi Flynn got the players’ responses off to a rocky start by stating “they the only one that can procreate.” It didn’t get much better with Precious […]
Bennedict Mathurin and Andrew Nembhard of the Indiana Pacers are set to appear in this year’s NBA Rising Stars game during the league’s All-Star festivities. Joining the two rookie Canadians is Leonard Miller, a prospect playing for the G League Ignite who is expected to be a first-round pick in the 2023 Draft. Mathurin is currently […]
Tier Zero was founded by a group of friends from Toronto in 2017. Charlie Lindsay, Due Pinlac, and Jamal Burger were each navigating through the Toronto creative industry as freelance photographers and videographers, getting jobs individually and working on projects with bigtime brands but ultimately feeling like they wanted something more: to prioritize their own […]
Ahead of their season opener, the Toronto Raptors head coach Nick Nurse hosted an evening of music at History in Toronto to help raise funding for The Nick Nurse Foundation Music Labs, a program aiming to help bring access to music to underfunded schools and communities. Along with a red carpet and cocktails came three […]
Former Toronto Raptors and CEBL Scarborough Shooting Stars guard Jalen Harris is returning to the NBA after signing a contract with the New York Knicks. Harris was an All-CEBL first team guard this season for Scarborough, the team co-owned by OVO founding member Niko Carino. The 24-year-old Harris was dismissed from the NBA in 2021 for […]
The Atlanta home of former NBA player Vince Carter was broken into over the weekend, as armed burglars made off with nearly $100,000 in cash. According to TMZ, the suspects broke into Carter’s home around 11:50 p.m. on Sunday, while the former Toronto Raptors player’s wife, Sondi, and their kids were in bed. “Sondi said she was frightened […]
Most NBA players spend their off-seasons in tropical locales, rolling around on pristine beaches and sipping on fine wines, their minds as far away from their jobs as possible. But on Tuesday, the Raptors’ Pascal Siakam chose to be in Toronto, handing out free laptops to kids in one of the city’s most underserved areas. “I mean, first […]
