Tuesday, August 14,

Toronto Raptors & Andrea Bargnani Start Pre-Season in Rome,Italy

The ANNOTICO Report

 

The NBA Toronto Raptors will start their PreSeason in Rome, Italy on Oct. 6, vs Boston Celtics after the Raptors hold training camp overseas for the first time in franchise history, opening in Treviso, Italy on Oct. 1.

 

The Raptors will be featuring Andrea Bargnani, who was Toronto's First Round Draft pick, as # 1, out of the Italian League, who then went on to be named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team.

 

The following night, the Raptors will play  Lottomatica Vitrus Roma.

 

Rome, will be the place to be on Oct 6 & 7 !!!

 

 

Raptors' pre-season starts in Italy, ends at home

 

August 14, 2007

Canadian Press, ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Toronto Raptors will have their first look at Kevin Garnett and the revamped Boston Celtics with a pre-season game in Rome on Oct. 6.

Toronto is holding training camp overseas for the first time in franchise history, opening in Treviso, Italy on Oct. 1.

They follow their game against Boston with another matchup the following night against Lottomatica Vitrus Roma.

Toronto will round out its overseas schedule with a game against Real Madrid in Madrid, Spain on Oct. 11.

The Raptors will then return to Toronto for games against Zalgiris Kaunas of the Euroleague and the Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers and Washington Wizards.

Garnett will lead the Boston Celtics against his former Minnesota teammates on October 12 in London.

The 119-game NBA exhibition slate, highlighted by Garnett's first meeting with the Timberwolves since being sent to Boston in a blockbuster deal, also includes games in Turkey, China, Spain and Macao.

Global rivals will come to U.S. cities as well.

Greeces Panathinaikos, the reigning Euroleague champion, will vist the NBA champion San Antonio Spurs on October 13, two days after they travel to Houston to play against Chinese star Yao Ming and the Houston Rockets.

Israel's Maccabi Tel Aviv will visit the New York Knicks on October 11 while Lithuania's Zalgiris Kaunas visits the Golden State Warriors on October 15, before arriving in Toronto for the game on October 17. The team goes on to Washington on October 19.

Other pre-season exhibitions include the Spurs at Miami on October 23 in a meeting of the past two NBA champions and a matchup between the top two picks in June's NBA Draft when Greg Oden-led Portland hosts Kevin Durant-sparked Seattle on October 24.

The NBA regular season opens October 30.

 

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