Title: Radio Appearance: Talking Raptors on Sportsnet 590
Date: May 17, 2021
Original Source: Sportsnet 590
Synopsis: I appeared on Sportsnet 590 to discuss the end of the Raptors disaster of a season and the NBA play-in tournament.
Title: Tim and Friends television appearance
Date: May 17, 2021
Original Source: Tim & Friends
Synopsis: I was a guest on Sportsnet’s Tim and Friends, discussing the end of the Toronto Raptors season.
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Title: Raptors finale notebook: A 6-man rotation, Fred VanVleet broadcasting and what comes next
Date: May 16, 2021
Original Source: The Athletic
Synopsis: In my latest for The Athletic Toronto, I dropped a notebook on the finale of a bad Raptors season. Read an excerpt!
Title: Alize Johnson carving out fans, a future with Nets: ‘He was not going to shrink’
Date: May 14, 2021
Original Source: The Athletic
Synopsis: In my latest for The Athletic Toronto, I wrote about Alize Johnson finally getting an NBA opportunity, winning fans in Brooklyn, and building a future with the Nets. Read an excerpt!
Title: Revisiting 15 bold predictions for the Raptors 2020-21 season
Date: May 13, 2021
Original Source: The Athletic
Synopsis: In my latest for The Athletic Toronto, I looked back at some bold preseason predictions I made for the Raptors season and traced where they went awry. Read an excerpt!
Title: Stanley Johnson, Raptors’ 36th starting lineup clinch No. 7 lottery odds; a look at the weirdest lineups of the decade
Date: May 13, 2021
Original Source: The Athletic
Synopsis: In my latest for The Athletic Toronto, I wrote about the Raptors’ tank finale, a shorthanded loss to the Bulls featuring some of their strangest lineups yet. Read an excerpt!
Title: Who is this year’s Ben Uzoh? What we’d like to see in the Raptors’ final games
Date: May 11, 2021
Original Source: The Athletic
Synopsis: In my latest for The Athletic Toronto, I wrote about what I’d like to see in a mostly meaningless final week for the Raptors. Read an excerpt!
Title: For 2020-21 Raptors, tanking ain’t easy. Here’s why: Murphy
Date: May 10, 2021
Original Source: The Athletic
Synopsis: In my latest for The Athletic Toronto, I wrote about the criticism that the Raptors didn’t tank hard enough and why it’s misguided. Read an excerpt!
Title: The Raptors Reasonablists Podcast – Raptors Take Purge
Date: May 10, 2021
Original Source: The Athletic
Synopsis: In the latest edition of The Raptors Reasonablists Podcast, Eric Koreen and I engaged in a “take purge,” unloading our strongest opinions of the season. Read an excerpt!
Title: Jalen Harris leads next-gen Bench Mob audition as thinned-out Raptors lose to Grizzlies
Date: May 8, 2021
Original Source: The Athletic
Synopsis: In my latest for The Athletic Toronto, I wrote about Jalen Harris getting a big late-season opportunity and why those chances matter for future years. Read an excerpt!
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