Montreal’s Khem Birch thought his basketball career was over. Now, he’s representing Canada at the Olympics.
“I almost wanted to cry,” he told me.
Story for
@CanBball
on his emotional journey back from injury and the world stage:
I love to see the hate! No doubt I took a hard foul which I always do but I’ve never hit a man with his back turned! Luckily we built different over here. I can take my licks and keep pushing. Joker 1 smooth 0 lol.
Serge Ibaka asks DeMar DeRozan if he would’ve considered returning to Toronto if they offered him a similar contract to the Bulls.
His response: “If Kyle was there.”
Kyle Lowry gets the game ball in his return to Toronto and offers it to Fred VanVleet after breaking his record.
He says no but Kyle later hands the ball to Raptors PR to give to Fred.
“Tell him I gave it to him.”
Raptors fans,
What's your favourite Kyle Lowry memory? 💭
@william_lou
&
@steven_lebron
called up
@Imman_Adan
to help draft their top 5⃣ moments from the GROAT's time in Toronto!
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These are the motivational goals Scottie Barnes had for himself as a rookie this season and looked at daily on his phone.
“Destroy everyone at practice” is a wild one.
Really great story from
@MarcJSpears
Masai Ujiri on Pascal Siakam this season:
“There’s nobody that knows the game that looks at this game and tells you Pascal is not an All Star this year.”
“He is an All Star.”
Chris Boucher is likely going to get paid well this summer and it’s well deserved.
What a turnaround season for him.
25 points and 10 rebounds tonight.
NBA star Kyrie Irving has taken Montreal’s Olivier-Maxence Prosper under his wing during his rookie year.
From taking his family out to lunch, to sitting next to him on team flights, they’ve built a bond.
“He’s going to be a special player one day.”
Serge Ibaka asked Giannis Antetokounmpo if he will play for the Raptors one day. 👀
We get the answer with the full episode Nov. 14 on
@Sportsnet
, SNNOW, and YouTube.
DeMar is so beloved in Toronto that if he won a chip with the Bulls he could probably come through to show it off and Raptors fans would FILL the streets.
What Darko said in the post game would make me want to run through a wall for him as a player.
Can’t remember the last time a coach was that passionate when calling out the officials for his team.
People are going to be mad at Pascal Siakam like he didn’t apologize to Joel Embiid after the game, explain post-game that he felt really awful and that he had no intention of hitting him.