Chuck and Jibran
Chuck and MoVernie
Chuck with Jordan and Tia
Chuck with Kristine and Cheryl
THE RAPTORS FANATICS LOVE CELEBRITY SIGHTINGS!
Friday, December 17, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Toronto Raptors Fanatics Biography #3
Hi Fanatic Blog Readers,
My name is Davida Gragor, and yes, I too am a FANATIC!
I’ll admit, back in the ‘90’s I was a Chicago fan. But how could you not? The Jordan, Pippen, Rodman trifecta was too strong NOT to be awed by their game play. I remember one year my grandmother got me a Rodman jersey for Christmas and I screamed so loud the whole family’s ears were ringing! :)
I guess my practice screaming for jersey’s has prepared me well for my time as a Fanatic – there’s nothing I have enjoyed more these past couple of months than cheering unabashed surrounded by fans just as crazy as me and who don’t care if I yell or jump up with each play. The Fanatics are an amazing bunch, cheering on an amazing team!
I have always had an overall love for basketball. I love the game, I love watching the game and I love playing the game! In school I played on my junior, middle school and high school teams. When Toronto got their own basketball team I was thrilled! I could finally watch NBA athlete’s and cheer for my HOME TOWN!
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| Me, Matt Devlin and Joel (@joelreilly/@rtzfans) at the ACC before a game! |
I have been going to (and cheering at) Raptor games since their first seasons at the Skydome (it was still called that back then!). The stadium was so big and the hardwood always looked so small in the middle of it. Thankfully, my boyfriend has the same fanatic love of the game as I do and we have been getting season’s tickets for the last few years, but nothing has been like this year with the Fanatics!
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| Locker Room!!!! |
One of my favourite experiences as a fan was getting to visit the Raptors locker room a couple years ago. The MLSE is great with their fans and that is an experience I’ll never forget!
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| I admit it, I heart Jose! |
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| Entrance to the Raptors locker room! |
Win or lose, I know my Fanatics will be there cheering the Raptors and I cant wait to see how the rest of this exciting season rolls out!
Monday, December 13, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
What A Comeback!
By: Jonathan Joubran
Incredible game last night at the Palace in Detroit, as the Raptors and the Pistons squared off. The Toronto Raptors overcame the largest point deficit in franchise history to win the game. Down by twenty-five in the third quarter, the Toronto Raptors faught back hard, and ending up taking the game 120-116! Boxscore is here. Raptors used a strong fourth quarter, outscoring Detroit 37-17 to take the game.
What was key in our comeback was the phenominal play by point guard Jerryd Bayless tieng his career high with 31 points, to go with a solid 7 assists, 5 rebounds and a steal! Great job by Bayless yesterday in the absense of Jose Calderon. Bayless is really fitting in with this Raptors crew nicely and I love it! Centre Andrea Bargnani is showing signs of consistancy which is what we need from the Italian star, dropping 22 points, but he still needs to work on those rebounds! Mr. Barbosa played absoloutley great off the bench dropping 22 points to go along with 7 assists. If Barbosa keeps up this stellar play, I see another 6th man of the year ballot coming along! DeMar also played nice, dropping a great 16 points.
Key preformance for Detroit: Ben Wallace.. how old is this guy again?! His age didn't show yesterday, as he dropped 23 points, to go with 14 rebounds and 5 steals. He even dropped a three!
What THEY said (Courtesy of Raptors Game Rap)
Jay Triano: "The second half we had four turnovers for four points and they had second chance points worth three. It is not about coverages and it is not about intensity, it is about taking care of the basketball and we did that in the second half and I have never been down by 20 and shooting 65 percent from the field. I knew we had no problems scoring but we had to take care of the ball and we had to box out, I thought we did a lot better job in the second half."
Amir Johnson: “We just had to be accountable for ourselves out there and step up to the plate. We knew what we had to do, there was no question about that, and we just stepped it up."
DeMar DeRozan: "We said that we didn’t want to be get embarrassed and then we responded and got on a roll and won the game."
Overall great game by Toronto, they need this win, good job fellas!
Next up for Toronto is the Bobcats on Tuesday, then they're back at home on Wednesday against the Bulls where it is going to be Italian night! And yes, the Fanatics will be there!
'Till next time, LETS GO RAPTORS
& Don't forget to follow us on twitter! Also shout out to the newest member of the Fanatic Zone, Vernon Chang! Welcome Vernon.
Incredible game last night at the Palace in Detroit, as the Raptors and the Pistons squared off. The Toronto Raptors overcame the largest point deficit in franchise history to win the game. Down by twenty-five in the third quarter, the Toronto Raptors faught back hard, and ending up taking the game 120-116! Boxscore is here. Raptors used a strong fourth quarter, outscoring Detroit 37-17 to take the game.
What was key in our comeback was the phenominal play by point guard Jerryd Bayless tieng his career high with 31 points, to go with a solid 7 assists, 5 rebounds and a steal! Great job by Bayless yesterday in the absense of Jose Calderon. Bayless is really fitting in with this Raptors crew nicely and I love it! Centre Andrea Bargnani is showing signs of consistancy which is what we need from the Italian star, dropping 22 points, but he still needs to work on those rebounds! Mr. Barbosa played absoloutley great off the bench dropping 22 points to go along with 7 assists. If Barbosa keeps up this stellar play, I see another 6th man of the year ballot coming along! DeMar also played nice, dropping a great 16 points.
Key preformance for Detroit: Ben Wallace.. how old is this guy again?! His age didn't show yesterday, as he dropped 23 points, to go with 14 rebounds and 5 steals. He even dropped a three!
What THEY said (Courtesy of Raptors Game Rap)
Jay Triano: "The second half we had four turnovers for four points and they had second chance points worth three. It is not about coverages and it is not about intensity, it is about taking care of the basketball and we did that in the second half and I have never been down by 20 and shooting 65 percent from the field. I knew we had no problems scoring but we had to take care of the ball and we had to box out, I thought we did a lot better job in the second half."
Amir Johnson: “We just had to be accountable for ourselves out there and step up to the plate. We knew what we had to do, there was no question about that, and we just stepped it up."
DeMar DeRozan: "We said that we didn’t want to be get embarrassed and then we responded and got on a roll and won the game."
Overall great game by Toronto, they need this win, good job fellas!
Next up for Toronto is the Bobcats on Tuesday, then they're back at home on Wednesday against the Bulls where it is going to be Italian night! And yes, the Fanatics will be there!
'Till next time, LETS GO RAPTORS
& Don't forget to follow us on twitter! Also shout out to the newest member of the Fanatic Zone, Vernon Chang! Welcome Vernon.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Raps Lose a Tough One At the A.C.C
By: Jonathan Joubran
Defence? Wait, what's that? I havn't heard of it before, and I don't think the Raptors or Nuggets did either yesterday night at the Air Canada Centre! Both teams faught hard, with amazing back and forth action, as Jack Armstrong said during the game: "I'm going to need a neck brace after watching this game" in regards to the fast-paced game.
Very exciting game to watch, as after the first quarter, the score was already 39-33!
Raptors had four players with 20+ points, Bargnani dropped 24, Barbosa came off strong as the back-up point guard to the absense of Jose, with 22 points. Raptors' Sonny Weems, and Linas Kleiza had something to show their former teams, as Sonny dropped 21 points with 7 rebounds as Kleiza lead the way with 26 points and 12 rebounds. Could this possibly be the break-out game that we need from Kleiza? Let's hope so!
Al Harrington led Denver with 31 points, check out the full boxscore here.
Nuggets' coach George Karl surpassed a tremendous milestone in the NBA this night, as he became the seventh coach to reach 1000 wins, congrats to George! Check out his Arena Link with NBA TV here!
Key reason why Toronto lost tonight though was because, the Fanatics weren't there! Fanatics are back on December 15th against the Chicago Bulls.
Hopefully Toronto can end this losing skid tonight, as they face off with Tracy McGrady and the Detroit Pistons.
LETS GO RAPTORS!
Defence? Wait, what's that? I havn't heard of it before, and I don't think the Raptors or Nuggets did either yesterday night at the Air Canada Centre! Both teams faught hard, with amazing back and forth action, as Jack Armstrong said during the game: "I'm going to need a neck brace after watching this game" in regards to the fast-paced game.
Very exciting game to watch, as after the first quarter, the score was already 39-33!
Raptors had four players with 20+ points, Bargnani dropped 24, Barbosa came off strong as the back-up point guard to the absense of Jose, with 22 points. Raptors' Sonny Weems, and Linas Kleiza had something to show their former teams, as Sonny dropped 21 points with 7 rebounds as Kleiza lead the way with 26 points and 12 rebounds. Could this possibly be the break-out game that we need from Kleiza? Let's hope so!
Al Harrington led Denver with 31 points, check out the full boxscore here.
Nuggets' coach George Karl surpassed a tremendous milestone in the NBA this night, as he became the seventh coach to reach 1000 wins, congrats to George! Check out his Arena Link with NBA TV here!
Key reason why Toronto lost tonight though was because, the Fanatics weren't there! Fanatics are back on December 15th against the Chicago Bulls.
Hopefully Toronto can end this losing skid tonight, as they face off with Tracy McGrady and the Detroit Pistons.
LETS GO RAPTORS!
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