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A suddenly struggling San Antonio team hopes to get back on track Monday without star guard Tony Parker as they return to the Alamo City to face the Toronto Raptors.

The start of the NBA season was always going to be about learning for the newly-constructed Raptors .

It was one of those games that made Bryan Colangelo's master plan look, well, masterful.

Dirk Nowitzki led all scorers with 29 points, as the Mavericks cruised past Toronto, 129-101, at American Airlines Center.

With 39 points in an overtime win over Dallas on Wednesday, Paul is averaging 30 points a game on 64.3 per cent shooting.

The Toronto Raptors have signed guard Jarrett Jack to an offer sheet. Photograph by: REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson, National Post Last Wednesday evening, Toronto Raptors Bryan Colangelo deftly negotiated a complicated sign-and-trade deal that allowed the Raptors to acquire Hedo Turkoglu while maintaining the flexibility to use several exceptions to the ...

It was a shot Jose Calderon needed to fall. With the Toronto Raptors having just given away a 17-point lead to the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday, the ball found its way to Calderon, the team's struggling point guard.

In the parlance of Seinfeld, it was the bizarro version of the Toronto Raptors on the floor on Wednesday night.

Good-natured ribbing echoed through the Toronto Raptors' near-empty practice court Tuesday.

JARRETT JACK: "Getting excited about being able to stop someone: that's an incredible feeling." Jarrett Jack would concede he has done no hard research to prove this, but he has come up with a theory nonetheless.

There was a mild moment of controversy during the Toronto Raptors' game Sunday afternoon against the Orlando Magic.

This was a game that was supposed to be about the juicy storylines. For the first time since helping them get to the NBA Finals, Hedo Turkoglu was facing the Orlando Magic.

In a game that could only be described as an ugly early season display of poor play and bad defense by the Toronto Raptors and the Memphis Grizzlies, everything came down to the last five minutes of the game and Toronto's substitutions were found lacking.

MEMPHIS, Tenn.a 'The truth of the Raptors lies somewhere in the middle of what transpired here Friday night and the euphoria of Wednesday at home.

Seven years in the NBA has taught LeBron James the importance of patience. It is being tested after Cleveland started its new season with two straight losses.

Andrea Bargnani scored 28 points, Chris Bosh had 21 points and 16 rebounds, and the Toronto Raptors overcame LeBron James' 25th career triple-double to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 101-91 on Wednesday night.

The H1N1 watch has hit the Toronto Raptors. Guard Jarrett Jack, swingman Antoine Wright and assistant coach Alex English were not with the team on Sunday when the team practiced in preparation for Wednesday's season opener against Cleveland.

But the picture could get fuzzy over the coming months as Bosh heads into a season of uncertainty and the Raptors may be seeing the last of their team captain and poster boy.

What if Shakespeare had only written half of Romeo and Juliet ? It would be a nice story about falling in love with no consequences whatsoever; no one gets poisoned, stabbed, or has a thumb bitten at them.

Okay, both teams didna t win the game.A But both teams should be happy with the result.A Certain players on the Raptors may disagree, but thata s not the story here.A Neither was the final score of 101 Celtics, 82 Raptors.