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Raptors' Moon will be dunking with the stars
The Raptor game and that article just made my day.
(TORONTO) -- The Toronto Raptors announced Monday that forward Chris Bosh was named NBA Eastern Conference Player of the Week for games played Monday, January 7 through Sunday, January 13. This is the fourth time Bosh has won the honour, having previously earned the award for the weeks of March 26 - April 1, 2007, January 30 - February 5, 2006 and January 3-9, 2005.
Bosh led the Raptors to a 3-0 record, averaging a league-high 33.0 points, 8.7 rebounds and 2.0 blocked shots. He registered two double-doubles and led the team in scoring and rebounding twice. Bosh totaled 21 points on eight-of-10 shooting from the field in a 109-96 win to open the week January 9 versus Philadelphia. Bosh recorded his third 40-point performance of the season, and fourth of his career, in scoring 40 points January 11 at New York. He made 14 of a career-best 30 field goal attempts and finished with a game-high 11 rebounds versus the Knicks. He finished the week with game highs of 38 points and 14 rebounds in Toronto's 116-109 January 13 double-overtime win versus the Portland Trail Blazers. Bosh led all players in the game with a career-high 55:25 minutes.
A product of Georgia Tech in his fifth season, Bosh leads the team in scoring (21.6), rebounding (9.3) and minutes (35.4). Earlier this season Bosh passed former Raptor Antonio Davis to become the franchise's all-time leading rebounder with 2,840. Bosh is 11 made free throws and 14 free throw attempts from passing Vince Carter for first on the Raptors' all-time list.
The Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant was named Western Conference Player of the Week after averaging 29.5 points, 4.5 rebounds, 6.0 assists and 3.5 steals on the week.
Welcoming New Canadians
by Mike Ulmer
--raptors.com
January 14, 2008
They waved their flags, those little paper flags, and the sound of it did nothing to wake the handful of babies sleeping through citizenship court.
Seventy-nine people from 27 countries, bringing countless skills and incalculable experience, were sworn in as Canadians Monday at a federal building in the heart of downtown Toronto.
There were homemakers, businesspeople, civil servants and one sports announcer. Seattle native Chuck Swirsky, the voice of the Toronto Raptors, waved his tiny flag with the rest.It's been a decade since Swirsky drove across the Ambassador Bridge that links Detroit and Windsor. He was coming for a try in Canada. When he was a kid all he knew about Canada was that the bacon and maple syrup were good and that Vancouver was a pretty city. Even, as an adult making that drive he didn't know a whole lot more.
"My first impression when I made that drive from Detroit was 'this is a huge city, a huge market" he said. There was opportunity for Swirsky, but there was also something more.
"What I love about Canada," he said, "is the people, the diversity, the connection people have with each other here."
That connection was on full display, Monday. The Brazilians squeezed in beside the Japanese who shared space with the Kazaks and the Vietnamese. Within a year, 250,000 more people will pack virtually all their belongings, leave all that they know and come here.
They are after what a 33-year-old Nigerian woman named Patricia Dumkwu called security. Not the kind of security basketball players talk about at contract time, but rather the privilege of living free of fear.
"The insecurity in Nigeria," she said "was getting too bad. There are frequent robberies and armed people break into houses."
There is also a security in being free to make your own choices. Had she stayed in Nigeria, Dumkwu would have likely been the subject of a marriage arranged to bolster her family's status.
"It can all be about the family's background. Often a family will give up their daughter to advance that," she said. "Canadian women are liberated. They make decisions for themselves."
Patricia Dumkwu wore red and a radiant smile. She is a social services worker. She works with kids and the poor and she did more to make Canada better before she became a citizen than most of us will do from our first day to our last.
One hundred flags flapping and not a sound but the ripples will carry into homes and lives all across the country.
After a rousing version of O Canada, the new citizens and their families disappeared, not into a sea of white faces, but into a country with faces like theirs in a place they call the City of Nations.