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For this Friday's commenter draft, we're going to pick moments that made you feel ashamed to be a Raptors fan. Maybe you've learned to laugh about it now, but every Raptors fan who has been following the team for at least the past few years can think of a moment that made you want to throw out your Raptors jersey — or, if you're Efman, pry your Raptors license plate off your car with a crowbar. The rules, as always: I make the first pick and then you each make your picks in the comments. Once somebody makes a pick, it's off the board. And once you make a pick, you can't make another until five more picks are made after yours. My initial instinct was to go with the obvious choice (hint: 81) but then I remembered Rafael Araujo drilling a dunk attempt off the front of the rim while he roared his Brazilian war cry. At that moment, I thought, "OK, this guy is never, ever, never, ever, neverino going to pan out." As you probably know, he was traded to Utah in June 2006 for Kris Humphries (who actually has turned out to be a useful big man off the bench) and ended up signing a one-year contract with Spartak St. Petersburg in Russia in the summer of 2007. He's not on their roster anymore (I can't read Russian but I went by the birth dates) so I don't know where he is now. All I know is that this moment brought home the horrible realization that the Raptors shit the bed with that draft pick — that and the fact that the most frequent forum poster and blog commenter during that time was RaptorBlog's own "PickedBeforeIggy". What Raptors-related moment made you want to stay home from work or school so you wouldn't have to hear about it the next day? |
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