From San Francisco to Oakland and points in between, basketball's deep roots are found throughout the Bay Area.

Thursday after the trade deadline, Battle got a phone call from his agent Aaron Klevan telling him he had climbed the latest rung of his personal ladder: After a flurry of moves left the Raptors with ...

That shock of emotions reverberated through Raptors bandwagoners and diehard fans alike. It was an overwhelming sense of ...