Andrea Bargnani

Jameer Nelson scored 30 points, J.J. Redick had a career-high 27 and the Orlando Magic used a season-high 17 3-pointers to beat the Toronto Raptors 125-116 on Sunday. Dwight Howard had 24 points and 11 rebounds, Ryan Anderson scored 20 and the Magic (3-0) remained unbeaten after going 8-0 in the preseason. Chris Bosh led Toronto with 35 points and 16 rebounds while Andrea Bargnani had 26, including 22 in the second half. Former Magic swingman Hedo Turkoglu had 19 points for Toronto, which has lost two straight following a season-opening victory over Cleveland. The Magic were without former Raptor Vince Carter, who left ... Read Full Story

Andrea Bargnani scored 28 points, Chris Bosh had 21 points and 16 rebounds, and the Toronto Raptors overcame LeBron James' 25th career triple-double to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 101-91 on Wednesday night. James had 23 points, 12 assists and 11 rebounds, but Cleveland opened its season with consecutive losses for the first time since an 0-3 start in 2004-05. James scored 38 points in Tuesday's 95-89 home loss to Boston. Mo Williams scored 16 points and Shaquille O'Neal had 12 for Cleveland, which had won five straight over Toronto and nine of 10. Hedo Turkoglu scored 12 points in his Raptors debut and Marco ... Read Full Story

Shane Battier scored 26 points and Trevor Ariza added 18 as the Houston Rockets made 13 3-pointers in a 124-112 preseason victory over the Toronto Raptors on Thursday night. Battier made his first seven 3-point attempts and finished 8 of 9 from behind the arc. Ariza was 3 of 5 as Houston finished 13 of 23 from 3-point range. Former Raptor Pops Mensah-Bonsu scored 17 points, including several dunks, for the Rockets (3-2), while Carl Landry added 14 points and Kyle Lowry had 12 points and seven assists. Andrea Bargnani scored 16 points and Chris Bosh had 13 for the Raptors (2-4), who lost ... Read Full Story

Toronto Raptors at Philadelphia 76ers IF you have been checking out our game day previews for the last few weeks you have probably noticed a high level of sarcasm directed towards the Raptors. Well they deserve it. It is killing us slowly to watch this team spiral to a 50 loss season and daydreaming about what could of been. If you were to go back to November and say Bosh would put up better numbers than last year, that Bargnani would finally show signs of life and that Joey Graham finally panned out…………we would be thinking 50 win season. But they don’t play the ... Read Full Story

Miami Heat at Toronto Raptors Tonight’s the night, the return of JO and J-Moon to the ACC. Seems like yesterday they were in the red and black and now they are with the Heat and most likely in the playoffs. Remember last season when the Heat were the one team the Raps just killed. Well that is no more sadly. Sure the Raps somehow have won both matchups this season but that seemed like so long ago. D-Wade is healthy and having an MVP season and he is going to go off on the Raps backcourt. If history tells us two things it is ... Read Full Story