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Chris Bosh’ Stomach Virus Is Not Serious | Sun 7 Mar

“I had texts from everywhere because I guess they said I was in the hospital and everybody from all over the world was texting me,” Chris Bosh said of the reaction to a simple illness that felled him Friday. “They said ‘rushed’ to hospital. No, I wasn’t rushed.”

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Sign-And-Trade Possible For Chris Bosh | Sat 6 Mar

According to a league source, the Raptors believe that if Chris Bosh doesn’t return they would consider using him in a sign-and-trade. When Bryan Colangelo was asked about Bosh’s future Friday night, he said, “the intention all along has been to retain him.”

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Bosh Hospitalized With Stomach Pains | Sat 6 Mar

Despite being fully recovered from a sprained ankle, Chris Bosh missed his seventh straight game after he came down with severe stomach pains. “He went to the hospital just prior to the game just to get checked,” coach Jay Triano said of Bosh.

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Jose Calderon Fills The Leadership Void | Sat 6 Mar

Who knows what state the Raptors’ psyche would be had Jose Calderon not taken his game to another level against the Knicks. Calderon is a quiet leader who plays with a big heart. Against the Knicks, he was leading both by example and through his words.

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Chris Bosh Returns To Action Friday Night | Fri 5 Mar

Fans will get to see what Chris Bosh’s talking about on Friday when he plans to return from a six-game, injury-induced absence; a comeback that can’t come quickly enough to a team that’s lost four straight and looked increasingly worse with each passing game.

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Reggie Evans Happy With His Reputation | Thu 4 Mar

Dirtiest player in the NBA? Reggie Evans can live with that. In fact, he thanks the 173 fellow NBAers who voted him that dubious honour in a recent Sports Illustrated poll. “I would say it’s a compliment,” Evans said. “Hey, at least they’re talking about me.”

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Raptors In No Mood To Panic After Losses | Wed 3 Mar

“If we have a meeting now, it’ll be with Scott,” Triano joked, referring to trainer Scott McCullough. “When we were 7-13, we had no injuries. Now we have three-quarters of our top four who can’t play. I don’t see any reason to panic right now.”

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Reggie Evans: Dirtiest Player In The NBA? | Wed 3 Mar

Reggie Evans picked up a rather dubious honour Tuesday. In an informal poll of 173 of the NBA’s almost 450 players conducted by Sports Illustrated, the Raptors power forward was named “the dirtiest player” by 21 per cent of the respondents.

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Are The Raptors Lost Without Chris Bosh? | Mon 1 Mar

Without Chris Bosh, the Toronto Raptors needed to get off to a solid start. They didn’t and were forced to play catch-up from the opening tap. To compound matters, the Raptors were simply turning over the basketball too frequently.

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Wright Is Set To Face Durant, James, Roy | Wed 24 Feb

Antoine Wright walks over to a reporter after getting in some extra work after practice and it’s pointed out to him his next three nights of work should entail having to deal with Brandon Roy, LeBron James and Kevin Durant. Instead of cowering, he smiles.

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Turkoglu Mask Talk Getting To Jay Triano | Tue 23 Feb

Raptors head coach Jay Triano is through answering questions about Hedo Turkoglu’s mask or anything else he has no control over. “I just want to know if he’s playing or not,” Triano said. “Give me a list of the guys who can play, and I’ll try to win the game.“

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Raptors Tried To Get Bosh’s Friend Powell | Thu 18 Feb

Ric Bucher of ESPN’s The Magazine tweets: “Also in Rumor Central: Toronot tried to solidify hold on Chris Bosh by trading Banks/O’Bryant for Sasha Vujacic/ Josh Powell, Josh being one of Bosh’s best friends.”

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Bosh Doesn’t Think Raptors Need A Trade | Tue 16 Feb

“I’d be happy if we didn’t make a trade. I think we’re playing well and the different guys we have at each position are doing well, so I don’t know if we need one,” Toronto Raptors’ Chris Bosh said after his sparkling performance in Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game.

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DeRozan Out-Dunks Gordon In Dunk-In | Sat 13 Feb

DeMar DeRozan and Eric Gordon “competed” for a spot in Saturday night’s dunk contest, but it was an extremely anticlimactic event, no matter how loudly Cheryl Miller yelled out the results. Raptor DeMar DeRozan won the thing with 61% of the fan’s votes.

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Bosh Wants To Stay The Franchise-Player? | Fri 12 Feb

Chris Bosh said that he’s not necessarily interested in playing anywhere that he’s not the franchise player. “I feel like I should be built around,” he said. “And maybe that’s just my ego talking, but I feel that I’m a very good player in this league.”

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Bryan Colangelo Staying With The Raptors | Thu 11 Feb

Amid growing whispers concerning the future of the Bryan Colangelo, Richard Peddie set the record straight. It was an emphatic proclamation. “Bryan is our general manager and he’s not going anywhere. It’s official,” the president said on Wednesday.

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Chris Bosh Didn’t Commit To Team USA | Mon 8 Feb

Jerry Colangelo was quoted as saying that Bosh – a free agent as of July 1 – had committed to play this summer for Team USA. Bosh corrected that notion, citing his imminent free agency and fear of injury/lack of security in the interim as an obstacle.

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Hedo Turkoglu To Wear Protective Mask | Sun 7 Feb

Hedo Turkoglu has bowed to the wishes of his friends, family and bosses. The swingman will wear a mask to protect a fractured orbital bone under his right eye and what transpires when he takes to the court Sunday afternoon is a mystery to all.

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Negotiations To Keep Bosh From Worlds? | Sun 7 Feb

A report that Bosh had committed to play for the United States in Turkey in August was premature. “I don’t know where that came from, really,” Bosh said Saturday. “I have not fully committed. I know there’s a whole bunch of stuff going on this summer.”