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Raptors 905 look to maintain dominant form heading into G League playoffs The Raptors 905 tip off a game during a previous season. (Frank Gunn/CP) | March 7, 2021, 9:18 AM March 7, 2021, 9:18 AM TORONTO – Fifteen games in 25 days with five back-to-backs, contests played as early as 11:00 a.m. ET and turnaround times in between games that are sometimes less than 24 hours. This was the rapid sprint of a season the Raptors 905 had to deal with as one of just 18 teams that opted to enter the G League bubble – or the “Gubble” as it’s been affectionately nicknamed – at Walt Disney Worl...

While NBA rules prevent Kyle Lowry from officially serving as player-coach, the team will count on him to be a leader even more than he already is while head coach Nick Nurse is in health and safety protocols.

Toronto Raptors star Pascal Siakam will miss Friday's game against the Houston Rockets after entering the NBA's health and safety protocols, according to the latest NBA injury report.

TORONTO – When Raptors general manager Bobby Webster learned that his team could be without more than half of its coaching staff for Friday’s game, including head coach Nick Nurse, one of the first calls he made was to the franchise’s longest-tenured player, Kyle Lowry. In a different world, one in which the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement still permitted the use of player-coaches in the league, that may have been a very different conversation. Despite his wealth of knowledge and experience, and despite the fact that he already does half of the job as a leader on the floor, anyw...