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Now who else wanna fukk with Hollywood Court?
Difference is the Raps have shown to be a top 3 team already in this conference recently...Its an easy conclusion given the top two teams in front of them have dropped off...

When half the conference was injured, yeah they showed they were a top 3 team that eventually lost to a 5 seed :mjpls: If the Bulls are healthy you're not better than them, period, the Cavs will be better and the Wiz/Hawks could be better as well. Come on breh, the Bulls had the same record without Rose or Pau, now they got McBuckets and the best European prospect in the world? :smh: Better hope Pooh isn't healthy....

Did you not say as early as THIS upcoming season they would drop off back to mediocrity,back to "reality" back to a bubble team or worse miss the playoffs entirely? Is this not what you said only a few short months ago young Wilt ??

I really do feel like a monetary wager is right around the corner...

One of my last posts from the old thread -
I've always liked Val, me and my breh @Miggs went back and forth over him vs Tristan Thompson earlier in the season, I said he'll be better long term than Thompson since he can play the 5.

I don't like the core because it's reliant on Lowry, just don't see how that's a smart investment moving forward. I'd love to be wrong, cause I think the Raps have great fans in general, but I don't see how this core with Lowry can be good over a long period of time. You need a major upgrade at PF and I don't see where you'll get it from, maybe if that Knicks pick turns out to be gold?

http://www.thecoli.com/posts/7939953/


I said LONG TERM, you gave Lowry a disgusting contract for 4 years :scusthov: and drafted a player that wont be ready for a minute. What we betting :birdman:
 

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Lowry had to be sign atleast 4 years or else he was gone to houston or miami. Masai trynna build on last seasons sucess. We dont want a repeat of what happen in 2007.
 

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So... I see the top-3 rankings as this so far:

1. Bulls
2. Cavs
3. Raptors

With PG's injury, the East is even wider open now.
 

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Tim Leiweke is leaving after this season.

TORONTO -- Tim Leiweke, the CEO of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, will step down next year.

The company announced Thursday that Tim Leiweke will stay until June 30 or until a successor is appointed. The MLSE properties include the Toronto Maple Leafs, Raptors and Toronto FC.

Leiweke, who joined the group in April 2013, says he plans to own and operate his own business.

ESPN
 

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Local writer blasting MLSE for Tim's departure:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/spor...le20166786/?click=sf_globe#dashboard/follows/

Before Mr. Leiweke, MLSE worked like a bank. It had money. It offered money to people it wanted, and hoped they’d come. Few did. That mentality is useless when all three of your teams operate in a salary-cap environment.
These days, every ascendant organization rides on one of two things – its history or its personality. No Toronto team has a recent history it wants to talk about.
So all they have to sell the stars of the future and build these clubs into winners is their personality. And it just quit.
 

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Leiweke was our bridge connecting us to things we've never had here before...You could see the build up from Drake to the All star game to KD to alot of people with our name in there mouths....Bad move losing him...brought us alot of credibility.
 

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Leiweke was our bridge connecting us to things we've never had here before...You could see the build up from Drake to the All star game to KD to alot of people with our name in there mouths....Bad move losing him...brought us alot of credibility.

fukk MLSE for real. I don't know who are they gonna bring in but I'm sure they're not gonna concentrate on the Raps at all...Reading that Cathal Kelly article @Listen You Douchebags article pissed me off so much
 

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fukk MLSE for real. I don't know who are they gonna bring in but I'm sure they're not gonna concentrate on the Raps at all...Reading that Cathal Kelly article @Listen You Douchebags article pissed me off so much

Leiweke was the perfect CEO for the Raptors,he was a basketball guy first and foremost you could clearly see that.
I dread that a hockey fakkit comes in and inevitably fukks up the basketball teams momentum...

This is just terrible timing,the Raps are on the rise and becoming relevant again,TL got us the all star game had on a track to be in the Durant discussion and he got that new 30 mil practice facility...HE did all that shyt,he got those connections in the business...Im not ready to go back to irrelevance...
 
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Leiweke was the perfect CEO for the Raptors,he was a basketball guy first and foremost you could clearly see that.
I dread that a hockey fakkit comes in and inevitably fukks up the basketball teams momentum...

Apparently these are the top candidates right now according to TSN http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=459940

Canadian Olympic Committee chief executive Chris Overholt is at the head of the list.

Sources tell TSN that Overholt has "absolutely turned the COC around" since he was hired in 2010, first as marketing director, and then as CEO.

Overholt is a Toronto native and a former MLSE employee. He was the company's vice president of sales and service from 1998 to 2003. He knows the company's culture, and also has experience working with the Miami Dolphins and Florida Panthers.

Former Madison Square Garden CEO Scott O'Neil, who helped run the New York Rangers and Knicks, would be another candidate.

And O'Neil was a candidate for the MLSE CEO position when Leiweke was hired.

"Scott had a great interview and got along with (MLSE board chair) Larry Tanenbaum very well," a source told TSN. "He was surprised when he didn't get the job."

O'Neil, a former senior VP of marketing with the NBA, is the chief executive of the New Jersey Devils and the Prudential Center in Newark and the Philadelphia 76ers. Both the 76ers and Devils are owned by Josh Harris, a hedge fund millionaire.

At that top of that list would be Dave Hopkinson, the company's chief commercial officer, who has been responsible for helping MLSE boost revenue.

It's also possible that outgoing Canadian Football League Commissioner Mark Cohon, who also worked with the NBA, might be interested in the job. He similarly told sources years ago that he would love the chance to guide Canada's most powerful sports company.

I guess I wouldn't mind Mark Cohon since he used to be the head of international marketing for the NBA and Scott O'Neil might be okay too (but I did read his connections with CAA got Mike Woodson a job with the Knicks :scusthov:), but those are some horrible candidates
 

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Speaking of the new practice facility.

Renderings

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http://www.blogto.com/sports_play/2014/08/this_is_what_the_raptors_training_facility_will_look_like/

And the lay out for it, is in this PDF. Scroll down to page 21.

http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2014/ex/bgrd/backgroundfile-72809.pdf
 
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