Dubious Raptor Moment Recap

Here it is: one-stop shopping for the entire list of the Top 50 Most Dubious Moments in Toronto Raptor History.  While you're working your way through this work of genius please remember that both the Toronto Star and Toronto Sun had a chance to publish it but didn't.  Idiots!

#50 BJ Armstrong Refuses To Report
#49 Raptors Sign Rick Brunson
#48 John Salmons Backs Out of Deal
#47 Naismith Cup
#46 Eric Williams Demands Trade
#45 Grunwald Addresses Fans
#44 Antonio Davis Wants Out
#43 Raptors Make Playoffs Without VC
#42 Raptors Debut... at SkyDome
#41 Raptors Finally Hire Sam Mitchell
#40 Lenny Wilkens Sets Loss Record
#39 Sam Mitchell Assaults Players
#38 Superfan Leaks VC Trade Demand
#37 Zo Paid $9 Million To Win Championship
#36 Raptors Win Draft Lottery, Pick 2nd
#35 Damon Stoudamire Traded
#34 "New Era" Marketing Campaign
#33 Veterans Revolt Against Butch Carter
#32 Alvin Williams Traded... Not!
#31 Rafer Alston Threatens to Quit
#30 Kevin O'Neill Fired
#29 Mo Taylor Backs Out Of Deal
#28 Raptors Sign Vincenzo Esposito
#27 Oak Insults Canadians
#26 Fans Campaign To Oust Dick Peddie
#25 Raptors Re-Sign "The Fat O"
#24 Aleksander Radojevic
#23 Oak Picks Pre-game Fights
#22 Chris Whitney Gets Cut
#21 Darrel Walker Clashes With Tracy McGrady
#20 John Wallace Speaks Out On NBA Lockout
#19 Raptors Sign Hakeem Olajuwon
#18 McGrady Leaves
#17 Nate Huffman Sues Raptors
#16 Raptors vs Hawks
#15 Raptors Outbid Themselves For Yogi
#14 Brendan Malone Fired
#13 The Nelly Concert
#12 Raptors Lose To Maccabi
#11 BJ Tyler Retires
#10 Isiah Bolts
#9  Vince Carter Graduates
#8  Master P Auditions For Raptors
#7  Chris Childs Forgets The Score
#6  Rafael Araujo Drafted
#5  Fans Want Ed O'Bannon
#4  Kobe Bitch Slaps Entire Raptor Team
#3  Butch Carter Self-Destructs
#2  Vince Carter Traded
#1  Raptors Selected As Team Name

For the record, I've tallied that we blame 6 of these Dubious Moments on Isiah Thomas, 5 on Glen Grunwald, and, amazingly, only 4 on Vince Carter (although if someone could have definitely confirmed that Vince gave away that play in Seattle he would have had 5).  In the end though, the one person in management that has been around for a good 90% of these moments has been Richard Peddie.  That can't be a coincidence.

Comments

[Don Paco]

More. Please. The Blue Baller is necessary. The Flagrancy must continue. The Association needs you. More!

[arsenal]

Couldn't agree more...The Blue Baller should be fast-tracked into the Hall of Fame into a category created just for him "Conscience of Team".
BB, please, don't stop. We need you. How about a weekly dubious moment based on the games? (Bosh's lack of D, Mitchell's game plan: Labelled TOP SECRET-"Go get'em guys, hard D, HARD D!" A rotation whose sole purpose is to make people scratch their heads and make it seem that he actually has a plan!...etc...BB, please don't stop now, the city needs you!

[The Blue Baller]

Two small points of clarification:

1. The Blue Baller is necessary and should be fast tracked to the Hall of Fame. This part is true.

2. The Blue Baller writes The Flagrancy. Only half-true; B-Huge of RickBrunson.com writes the other half--any future litigation from should be addressed directly to him.

[B-Huge]

Damn, I thought I had the perfect patsy!

[arsenal]

RickBrunson.com is down...any chance of getting it back up?

[B-Huge]

We've got an archive up at
http://www.mealiffe.com/rickbrunson/index.html

[arsenal]

thank you! Here's some recent Rick Brunson quotes for the starved Rick Brunson fan:

Brunson hopes to return home from travels

By DOM COSENTINO
phillyBurbs.com

NEW YORK — During the 76ers' preseason game against the New York Knicks on Tuesday night, Rick Brunson was not called for traveling.

Moving around between dribbles is only what he's been doing for much of his professional career.

Brunson is one of six guards the Sixers brought to training camp this year. At 34, the former Temple star is trying to win one of the final spots on the Sixers' regular-season roster — a role to which he's grown rather accustomed.

Temple's North Philly campus might only be a few miles from the Sixers' home at Broad at Pattison, but Brunson's route as an undrafted free agent has taken him to Australia — where he played right out of school in 1995-96 — to a pair of stops in the CBA to stints with eight other NBA teams.

And even if the 6-foot-4 point guard is not on the roster when the Sixers open the season Nov. 1 against Atlanta at the Wachovia Center, he's grateful for the opportunity.

“It's a good opportunity for me,” he said just after the Sixers' 113-102 loss to the Knicks at Madison Square Garden in their penultimate preseason game. “I'm just trying to come out and do my job, just do what I've been doing for the last 10 years.”

With Allen Iverson (contused and sprained left hand) and Samuel Dalembert (hamstring) not making the trip to Manhattan, Brunson was given the chance to start by coach Maurice Cheeks. In 21 minutes, he dished out three assists, had a pair of steals and missed two shots.

“You have to give guys a chance to get out on the game floor,” Cheeks said before the game.

“Sometimes it's tough. But I think what I've tried to do is maybe not play a guy one game and then play a couple guys the next game. With Allen being out, you get another opportunity to play a couple other guys.

“I don't want to put him in tough situations, like, when the game is out of hand you put him in, or have him (sit) the whole time and then put him in in the fourth quarter. I've tried not to do that — I've tried to give him a legitimate chance of actually playing.”

Brunson has not spent more than two seasons in any one place during a career in which he's averaged just 3.9 points and 2.6 assists. He figures to be battling rookie forwards Ivan McFarlin and Steven Smith for the final one or two roster spots, but what he has that they lack is veteran experience. Just five of the Sixers' 16 training camp players have logged more than five years of NBA service.

Even if Brunson's future status remains uncertain, he knows for sure that he's been blessed to have played a game — and earned such a handsome living doing it — for all these years.

“It's a job,” he said. “It's something I wanted to do. I'm young. You can only do this for 10 or 12 years and then you start a new career. You make a lot of money — the average salary in Philly is $32,000. I think people will be sick if I said it was difficult to move around and get paid to play a lot of money to play basketball. I love it.”

[DeathToPeddie]

Fantastic work on the list of dubiosity (if that's a word???)! Is that it? Say it ain't so!! Please keep going I NEED MORE!

[KYP]

What about the dubious moment when Kevin O'Neill started walking off to the dressing room before the final buzzer sounded at the end of a game?

[The Blue Baller]

Dear Readers:

The Flagrancy is putting the finishing touches on an exciting new feature which will launch next week. Details will be announced on Monday.

In the meantime, why don't you get the fuck back to work.

[Nav Hater]

Add Nav "the Super Traitor" to the list. Boycott his Hyundai dealership!

[Garth Joseph]

You forgot Butch Carter's defamation of character suit against Marcus Camby, which resulted in raptor players (such as Childs) wearing black headbands as a protest against there coach.

[LV Monogram Minilin]

But to blame this on the public is to miss the point.