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Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · 11h

Collin Murray-Boyles averaged 2.1 assists in his college career, only had 6 or more assists in 3 of his 60 games.

He finished with a team-high 6 assists in his second NBA game, all on threes.

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Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · 13h

Brandon Ingram's scored 33 points on 18 shots in his first 31 preseason minutes as a Raptor btw.

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Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · 2d

The Preseason Raptors scored 32 points off the Nuggets' 31 turnovers, scored 25 points on the fast break and 15 second chance points.

They also shot 41.2% from the field, 23.8% from three & 66.7% at the line, finished with a 46.4 eFG%.

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Blake Murphy @blakemurphy.bsky.social · 16d

The Raptors have signed Tyson Degenhart.

An Exhibit 10 that was reported back around Summer League and now made official for camp.

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KeithSmithNBA @keithsmithnba.bsky.social · 22d

NBA teams spent nearly $5B (billion with a B!) in new salary this offseason. For @spotrac.com, I broke down how that money was spent and who were the ones spending it!

🏀Extensions
🏀Free Agents
🏀Rookie Signings

Read more:

www.spotrac.com/news/_/id/29...

How NBA Teams Spent This Offseason | Spotrac News

Oklahoma City Thunder are champions in more than one way in the last three months. First, the won the 2025 NBA Finals. Next they won the overall spending title of the offseason exceeding $800 million ...

www.spotrac.com

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Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · 27d

highly recommend touching grass for extended periods of time

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Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · 29d

you’re so right

Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · 29d

Gave myself the summer off & haven’t scrolled since July, what have I missed?

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Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · Jul 29

thank you!!

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Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · Jul 28

I'm working on a few projects & have been doing a ton of research. I had to start putting "cage" as a keyword instead of basketball!!

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Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · Jul 28

Fun fact: many (many) years ago, newspapers called basketball players "cagers" and the sport was called the "cage game"

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Josh Lewenberg @jlewenberg.bsky.social · Jul 28

The Raptors have waived Colin Castleton, who is coming off a rough Summer League showing in Vegas and was on a non-guaranteed deal.

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Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · Jul 23

My good deed for the day: if you subscribe to Office 365, check your plan because they probably upgraded it to one that costs more to force AI down your throat.

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Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · Jul 19

wow I feel old

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Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · Jul 19

That's former Ryerson Rams assistant Dipesh Mistry coaching the baby Kings!!

Mistry was on the bench for the first basketball championship I covered, way back in 2015-16

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Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · Jul 16

praying I never have to see a "Colin-Colin" frontcourt during the season

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Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · Jul 16

The baby Raptors are 3-0 in Las Vegas, have a +17.0 point differential & are holding opponents to a 0.45 AST/TO rate.

That's 39 assists to 87 turnovers in 3 games!

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Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · Jul 14

so the baby Raptors have an opponent turnover rate of 33.7% through 2 games in Vegas.

that's 63 opponent turnovers in 187 possessions.

a turnover every 76 seconds of game time.

Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · Jul 14

The baby Raptors are 2-0 in Vegas! Through 2 games, they've:
- forced opponents into 63 turnovers
- scored 84 points off those turnovers
- combined for 51 points on the break

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Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · Jul 14

The baby Raptors are 2-0 in Vegas! Through 2 games, they've:
- forced opponents into 63 turnovers
- scored 84 points off those turnovers
- combined for 51 points on the break

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Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · Jul 13

Hi hello, the Summer League Raptors have scored 57 points off turnovers in six 10-minute quarters.

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Blake Murphy @blakemurphy.bsky.social · Jul 12

Fred VanVleet the new NBPA president, per Shams.

Hard to find a smarter player.

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Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · Jul 12

Double bagel to win a Grand Slam is diabolical

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Josh Lewenberg @jlewenberg.bsky.social · Jul 11

Need @keerthikau.bsky.social to tell us if this is a record for letters on the back of a raptors jersey.

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Dan Devine @yourmandevine.bsky.social · Jul 3

A truly wild reconstruction/recounting of New Orleans' draft night decision-making, via @fearthebrown.bsky.social: intheno.substack.com/p/queens-gam...

The Hawks could not believe their good fortune. While the Pelicans would spend the next 24 hours facing enormous backlash for their reckless decision making, Hawks executives weren’t shy about sharing the details behind deal’s lopsided structure with rival teams.

One Eastern executive with knowledge of how the conversation went from Atlanta’s perspective described a perplexing scene. When Senior Vice President Troy Weaver made the call to Atlanta’s Bryson Graham, Graham couldn’t believe what was actually being offered. Graham asked for clarification multiple times to confirm the unprotected pick was indeed part of the deal. It got to the point where Hawks General Manager, Onsi Saleh, called Joe Dumars directly to confirm for himself. The Hawks waited nervously for Dumars to confirm, hoping he would not realize what was going on and walk the trade back. But the Pelicans persisted and the Hawks got their steal.

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Eric Koreen @ekoreen.bsky.social · Jul 7

Masai Ujiri shared a goodbye/thank you message for Toronto through his Giants of Africa organization

Masai Ujiri's Tribute to Toronto

YouTube video by Giants of Africa

www.youtube.com

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