Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the top 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists and consistently look to update them when necessary and based on necessity. As such, we are delighted to present our post-2023-24 revision of our top 50 Toronto Raptors.

As for all of our top 50 players in basketball, we look at the following:

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National Basketball Association.

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles that are not reflected in a stat sheet.

Last year, the Raptors went all out, as in jettisoning all players out.  That was an exaggeration, but beyond Scottie Barnes, there were not many reasons to watch a Toronto game.  Nevertheless, there were a few elevations.

As always, we present our top five, which saw no changes:

1. Kyle Lowry
2. Chris Bosh
3. Vince Carter
4. DeMar DeRozan
5. Pascal Siakam

You can find the entire list here.

Pascal Siakam was unable to climb up from #5 before he was traded to the Indiana Pacers.

O.G. Anunoby, who was traded to the New York Knicks during the season, went up one spot to #13.

Former Rookie of the Year Scottie Barnes climbed to #17 from #26.

Jakob Poeltl went from #31 to #25.

Gary Trent Jr, who is now with Milwaukee, reached #30 from #33.

We thank you for your continued support of our lists on Notinhalloffame.com.

Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our post 2022/23 revision of our top 50 Toronto Raptors.

As for all of our top 50 players in basketball we look at the following:

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National Basketball Association.

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.

Last year, Toronto only made it to the play-in round, but when you have a franchise this young, you will see fluctuation in a top 50, even in a mediocre year.

As always, we present our top five, which saw a new number five:

1. Kyle Lowry

2. Chris Bosh

3. Vince Carter

4. DeMar DeRozan

5. Pascal Siakam

You can find the entire list here.

Siakam continues his climb, and has done enough to breach the top five.

Fred VanVleet, who is now with the Houston Rockets, climbed to #8 from #12.

Shooting Guard, O.G. Anunoby moved up to #14 from #20.

Former Rookie of the Year, Scottie Barnes, advanced ten spots to #26.

Center, Jakob Poeltl, who returned last year, shot up nine spots to #31.  This jump, despite only 24 more Games was a testament to Poeltl’s efficiency and Toronto’s overall brevity in length.

The lone new entry was Gary Trent, who debuts at #33.

We welcome your input and comments and as always, we thank you for your support.

Regular visitors of Notinhalloffame.com know that we are slowly working on the top 50 of every major team in the NHL, NBA, NFL and MLB.  Once that is done, we intend to look at how each team honor their past players, coaches and executives.  As such, it is news to us that Larry Tannenbaum, the Chairman of the Toronto Raptors, announced that Kyle Lowry will eventually have his number 7 retired by the team.

In an interview with the Athletic, Tannenbaum had this to say about Lowry, who signed with Miami this offseason:

"He will retire as a Raptor and his number will absolutely go up there. The honor will be the first one [for the Raptors] and I love Kyle. I love his leadership. I love his intelligence. I love his passion. I truly love Kyle... When he made the decision [to leave Toronto and join the Heat], he called me and we talked about it and I was so happy for him because I know one day he's going to come back."  

This is of course, tentative, and we look forward to reporting when this is official, and when his Lowry’s name is hung from the rafters of the Air Canada Center.  

In our recent revision of our all-time Top 50 Toronto Raptors, Lowry moved up to number one.

We would like to congratulate Kyle Lowry for this impeding honor.

Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our pre-2021-22 revision of our top 50 Toronto Raptors.

As for all of our top 50 players in basketball we look at the following: 

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the NBA. 

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.

Please note, that this is our first revision in four years, which includes the 2019 Championship Season.  This has resulted in many changes, and nine new entries, and a brand new number one, Kyle Lowry, who climbed from his number four slot.

As always, we present our top five immediately, though nothing has changed in this upper-tier.

1. Kyle Lowry

2. Chris Bosh

3. Vince Carter

4. DeMar DeRozan

5. Jose Calderon

You can find the entire list here.

There is a lot more than Kyle Lowry’s ascendence to the top.

Pascal Siakam, who was an All-Star last year, enters at #7.

Kawhi Leonard, whose playoff heroics won the Raptors a title comes in at #11.

Starting Point Guard, Fred Van Vleet debuts at #12.

Norman Powell moved from #50 to #19.

Small Forward, O.G. Anunoby makes his first appearance at #23.

Center, Chris Boucher enters at #24.

Former Raptor Guard, Delon Wright, is #30.

Another former Raptor, Jakob Poeltl, is ranked #40.

Marc Gasol, who also is no longer with Toronto, is #44.

Danny Green, another one-year Raptor on the 2019 Championship winning team, is at #47.

We definitely won’t wait four years on this one again!

We welcome your input and comments and as always, we thank you for your support.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com are always looking to add new sections to our website.  Last month, we uploaded our top 100 active NFL players and how their Hall of Fame resumes stack up.  

We are doing the exact same thing with the NBA.

As opposed to 100 like we did in Football, we are going with only 50 in Basketball.  

We liked the idea that we used in Football with a modern “Modern Positional Average”, so we are doing something similar here.  With advanced analytics, we decided that we don’t have to isolate based on position so they are all on one list.

Inspired by Jay Jaffe’s JAWS statistic that looks at the best seven-year stretch of a baseball player according to bWAR, we are doing the same with current basketball players.  Specifically, we compiled the average PER, Win Shares and VORP for each of the past Hall of Famers based on their best seven-year period.  The additional thinking behind this is that in Basketball, there is an additional focus on periods of greatness as opposed to sports like Baseball, where compiling statistics is more glorified.

To keep everything modern, the average we used is the last 14 inductees, but only the ones who were Modern Era Inductees.  This excludes Direct-Elect Candidates (contributors, Early African-American Pioneers, International and Veterans).  The only exception is Vlade Divac, who was chosen via the International Committee, but has a healthy NBA career to draw upon.

As of this writing, the 14 players from the last four induction classes who we are using for the composite averages are:

Ray Allen, Maurice Cheeks, Vlade Divac, Bobby Jones, Grant Hill, Allen Iverson, Jason Kidd, Tracy McGrady, Yao Ming, Sidney Moncrief, Steve Nash, Shaquille O’Neal, Jack Sikma and Paul Westphal. 

While we are not looking at traditional statistics, we are averaging out All-Star Games and All-NBA Selections.  With the latter, we are looking at this in weighted fashion.  In terms of Third Team All-NBA Selections, one point will be assigned, Second Team All-NBA Selections will have two points will be granted, and First Team All-NBA Selections will have three points.  

Here are the averages:

Based on their elite seven-year stretch the average PER of the last 14 Modern Era Hall of Famers is 21.5.

Based on their elite seven-year stretch, the average Win Shares of the last 14 Modern Era Hall of Famers is 65.1.

Based on their elite seven-year stretch, the average VORP of the last 14 Modern Era Hall of Famers is 27.8.

With All-Star and All-NBA Selections, we look at the entire career of the player.  

The average All-Star Selections of the last 14 Modern Era Hall of Famers is 7.4.

The average All-Pro Selections (based on the pointed average of one for a Third Team, two for a Second Team and three for a First Team Selection) is 9.8.

We are also adding NBA Championships. Often,  players in this team sport more than any other (except for NFL Quarterbacks) are judged by the number of rings they have.  Perhaps, that shouldn't be as regarded as it is, considering the average amount of titles of our last 14 Modern Era Hall of Famers is less than 1.  Specifically, it is 0.79.

Wrapping this up in a bow, the six variables we are looking at Elite Period PER, Elite Period Win Shares, Elite Period VORP, All-Star Games, Weighted All-Pro Selections, NBA Championships.

This will be a regular feature on Notinhalloffame.com, and we will be updating this at the end of the season.

You can find our new section HERE.

As always, we here at Notinhalloffame.com thank all of you for your support!

Pre-2019-20 Rank: #20, Pre-2020-21 Rank: #20, Pre-2021-22 Rank #21, Pre-2022-23 Rank #21, Pre-2023-24 Rank: #23.

*Peak Period: From 2013-14 to 2019-20.

When Kyle Lowry was traded from the Houston Rockets to the Toronto Raptors, the rep on the Point Guard was that he was a moody malcontent.  The change of scenery erased that quickly, and he became the heart and soul of a team that won the 2019 NBA Championship and was a six-time All-Star.   The master of taking a foul, only received MVP votes one year (10^th in 2016), and he has some compiling work to do with his new team, Philadelphia, to have any severe shot at the Hall of Fame.

We can confidently say that the Toronto Raptors will announce his jersey retirement the second he retires—or, at least, they better!

Our slow and methodical process of putting together the top 50 players from every franchise continues and it is just in time for the upcoming NBA season. Today we present one of the newest franchises, the Toronto Raptors.

The Raptors have never won an NBA Championship, nor have they been to the Finals but as of this writing have had their best string of regular and post season success in the last few years. With a team this young this is not exactly an All Star team but that is to be expected and it will be fun to watch this list fluctuate in the coming years.

The entire list can be found here, but as per tradition we are offering the top five here.

1. Chris Bosh

2. Vince Carter

3. DeMar DeRozan

4. Kyle Lowry

5. Jose Calderon

Up next is the recent loser in the American League Wild Card Game, the Minnesota Twins.

As always, we here at Notinhalloffame.com we encourage you to take a look at this new list and offer your opinions!

Kyle Lowry had a reputation of being a malcontent when he arrived in Toronto. 

It is safe to say that isn’t the case any more.