Live: Raptors Pre-game Chat

Join Doug Smith for a live Q&A today at 1 p.m. as the Raptors prepare to face the Indiana Pacers tonight.

Live: Raptors Pre-Game Chat

Doug Smith held a live Q&A session today at 1 p.m., as the Raptors prepared to take on the Miami Heat.

Live: Raptors Pre-game chat

Join the Star's Doug Smith for a live Q &A today at 4 p.m. ET, ahead of tonight's game in Salt Lake CIty at 9 p.m.

A late change in the health of the Raptors

There’s been a change in the injured Raptors for Sunday’s game in Phoenix.

Hedo Turkoglu must have spent some time at the local chapter of Lourdes because he’s a go for the game against the Suns, but Antoine Wright’s sore ankle will keep him out of the game.

At shootaround Sunday morning, coach Jay Triano had said “I’m not optimistic right now” about Turkoglu’s availability because of his sore hip.

But after the shootaround, some afternoon work with the team’s training staff and the pre-game warmup, the starting small forward was deemed fit to go.

Wright, however, went through shooting drills about half an hour ago but couldn’t get his left ankle loose enough to let him play.

Raptors Pre-Game Chat

The Raptors are in Los Angeles for a 10:30 p.m. ET game against the Clippers tonight.

The Star's Doug Smith will be here at 1 p.m. ET to answer your questions.

A crummy airport means we'll be late

A fella heads to the airport in New Orleans to catch the morning flight to Dallas and finish off some work.

Yeah, right.

Seems I've found the one airport that isn't wired to sell you wireless access for a few hours to get some work done.

At least the lights work and a Blackberry has some power.

Anyway, you're going to have to wait until I'm in Dallas around noon to get all the usual pap and drivel you find here.

Trust me, it'll be worth the wait.

Now, wonder if there's a coffee shop around here?

The local TV details are out

The Raptors are once again all over the television dial.

But at least every game in the coming NBA season will be broadcast somewhere by someone.

As this team press release shows, TSN and TSN2 will do 50 of the 82 regular season games; The Score will have 20; another 10 go to the CBC while RaptorsTV gets the final two to broadcast on its own.

No big changes from a year ago, actually, except that the TSN2 games will be available to Rogers Cable subscribers in Ontario, where they were not a season ago.

No broadcaster changes, either. Jack Armstrong does the TSN and TSN2 games, Leo Rautins does the Score and CBC games and Sherman Hamilton is the analyst on the two RaptorsTV games.

Matt Devlin’s the one constant, he’s the play-by-play guy for all 82.

Some post-draft Raptors chat

The Goods On The Draft, 2009

The Goods On The Game, NBA Finals Game 5