Picking the last of 58 wins out of 82 tries is a strange way to analyze these things, but if you look at Miami’s final game of the regular season, you can point to bench also-rans Eddie House(notes) and Jamaal Magliore and give them the credit for the Heat earning home court advantage over Dallas in the NBA Finals. Because had those two not contributed mightily to a win over the Toronto Raptors during the last day of the regular season, Dallas would have tied with Miami’s record and earned home court advantage because the Mavs swept Miami in two tries this year.

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TORONTO — By now, most Toronto Raptors fans have seen Andrea Bargnani’s interesting comments regarding his future with the club when he did a brief interview during an Italian Sky Sports feed of the Western Conference Finals, essentially saying he wants to play somewhere warmer and where he can “play [his] role.” Since then, the seven-footer backtracked a little and his press office issued a statement from him to the Raptors that reads: “I wish to personally clarify and correct an inaccurate portrayal of my words that recently appeared in the media,” he said. “Much of what I said was taken out of context with respect to an entire conversation. “I want to make clear my love for Toronto and that I consider the city a second home

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Written by The Sports Network Toronto, Canada (Sports Network) – By now, most Toronto Raptors fans have seen Andrea Bargnani’s interesting comments regarding his future with the club when he did a brief interview during an Italian Sky Sports feed of the Western Conference Finals, essentially saying he wants to play somewhere warmer and where he can “play [his] role.” Since then, the seven-footer backtracked a little and his press office issued a statement from him to the Raptors that reads: “I wish to personally clarify and correct an inaccurate portrayal of my words that recently appeared in the media,” he said. “Much of what I said was taken out of context with respect to an entire conversation. “I want to make clear my love for Toronto and that I consider the city a second home.

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By SportsDirect After he was quoted in Italian, Toronto Raptors forward/center Andrea Bargnani did his best to clear the air in English. Bargnani was asked by Italy’s Sky Sports for which NBA team he’d like to play if given the choice. The top overall pick of the 2006 draft, Bargnani thought for a moment before answering

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Toronto Raptors center Andrea Bargnani(notes) sure sounded like he might be interested in getting out of the Great White North the other day when he spoke to Italy’s Sky Sports, according to TSN. “I want to stay in Toronto, at least this is the politically correct answer,” Bargnani said in Italian in answer to a question about where he’d like to play if he could play anywhere, TSN reports. “If [I am] to go somewhere else, I’d like a warm climate city and a team where I can actually play my role.” That raised enough eyebrows in the Raptors front office and around the city for Bargnani to feel that he needed to do some damage control

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