[Bluehorseshoe]

From Bleacher report
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Raptors will begin their season in Tampa, Florida, as Canadian government won't allow them to play in Toronto

[stevenash]

From Bleacher report
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Raptors will begin their season in Tampa, Florida, as Canadian government won't allow them to play in Toronto

Wouldn't Buffalo be a better option.
The old NBA Braves played there.

[bigtymer56]

Wouldn't Buffalo be a better option.
The old NBA Braves played there.

Tampa or Buffalo in the Winter?

[stevenash]

Tampa or Buffalo in the Winter?

Give me lake effect snow for 800 Alex.
(God Bless Alex)

[clockwise1965]

Raptors playing is a contradiction in terms.

NBA is terrible

[Booya711]

just move them permanently....Canada doesn't want them to play so make them pay

[Booya711]

but wait....will they allow the Maple Leafs to play?????

[Sam Losco]

but wait....will they allow the Maple Leafs to play?????

yes, all canadian division

[stevenash]

Raptors playing is a contradiction in terms.

NBA is terrible

Which reminds me of the time a couple of years ago I'm playing a poker tournament and one of the players at my table was from Charlotte.
The whole table had a good rapport, anyway when I asked him where he was from he said "Charlotte" and I replied, "nice city, too bad you don't have a pro basketball team there"

He had a good sense of humor.

[navyblue81]

Crap. I live in Tampa. I don’t want to see NBA around here. They’ll get like 12 BLM....errr...NBA fans at their game.

[Booya711]

yes, all canadian division

Yes but they still play US based teams

[Sam Losco]

Yes but they still play US based teams

not in an all canadian division they wont

[pologq]

move the wizards to the east div and the raptors to the southeast

[Mr KLC]

Masai Ujiri says that there's been so much going on with the Raptors, including having to relocate to Tampa and getting his staff's contracts extended, that his own contract extension has not been discussed yet. Ujiri said he thinks GM Bobby Webster's deal is all but done.

[Mr KLC]

It is still unclear whether spectators will be permitted to attend any of the 18 home games — 17 regular season and one preseason — slated to be played at Amalie Arena during the first half of the season. There’s also no word yet on whether Raptors games will be broadcast on television or radio in the Tampa Bay area.

Clarity on at least one of those issues could be coming soon. Raptors team president Masai Ujiri said he had a meeting Saturday afternoon to discuss “fans and tickets and the process of what we’re going to do there.”

“We’re in the process of working all these things out,” Ujiri said. “The health and safety protocols are going to be important to us, and not only in the city or in the arena, but also to us as a team. We’ve come from an environment, too, where we’ve learned a very, very good way on how to be disciplined with this.

“But we also understand, too, that gradually we have to start coming back and figuring it out slowly as we learn more about testing and all these protocols. And the NBA has done an incredible job of just taking us through all of this.”

The Magic own territorial rights over Tampa Bay and had to give their approval for the Raptors to relocate. So the team would have to work with the Magic for the right to televise games or put them on the radio. Magic games are broadcast locally on Fox Sports Florida.

If the Raptors can’t broadcast games locally, the team’s seven nationally televised games on ESPN, TNT and NBA TV would be the only games Tampa Bay-area residents would be able to watch without purchasing premium NBA Game Pass subscriptions.

“We’re in the process of all those things,” Ujiri said. “We are talking about showing games and all of that, and we are also respectful, too, of the Orlando Magic and being across the road from them. I thank them for allowing us to be within the same sort of the radius here and letting us play in Tampa.”