Jose Calderon, who was a part of the deal that landed Rudy Gay in Toronto, is a Detroit Piston. Before the trade, he was a Toronto Raptor. The Pistons visited the Raptors last night at the Air Canada Centre last night, and at halftime Jose Calderon walked back towards the locker room – a path separated by a barrier, one for the visitors, one for the home squad. Jose Calderon, well he chose wrong.

Mickael Pietrus isn’t great at playing basketball, but he is pretty stellar at clowning around pre-game. Watch here as he makes it incredibly difficult for NBA TV commentators Paul Jones and Sherman Hamilton to analyze basketball.

Now, this is how you greet female celebrities, 50 Cent.

Rapper Wale is from Washington, D.C., so he attended the Raptors’ 96-88 win over the Wizards at the Verizon Center last night. As well-known people often do, Wale had seats, close enough to the court for him to banter with players like the Raptors’ Rudy Gay. Unexpectedly, though, this led to some drama.

During last night’s Raptors-Nuggets game, DeMar DeRozan drove the lane and slammed a vicious dunk right on Timofey Mozgov’s head. Blake Griffin ” target=”_blank”>did the same a few years ago in arguably the most famous dunk of his dunkfest career. But of more concern than Mozgov’s penchant for being on the wrong end of highlight reels is that three-dimensional baseline Raptors logo at the Air Canada Centre. SO TRIPPY. Though had Mozgov tripped and subsequently fallen over a two-dimensional obstruction, it would have been a nice finishing touch to the whole thing.

The Miami Heat visit the Toronto Raptors on Sunday at 2:00 p.m., a game that will end shortly before the Super Bowl kicks off at 6:30 p.m. Directly after the conclusion of Miami-Toronto, the Heat will fly back home for a Monday night matchup with Charlotte. But because their charter plane apparently does not have satellite television or Wi-Fi, LeBron James won’t be able to watch the Super Bowl.

There really wasn’t that much going on in sports last night, but we’re here to tell you what you missed anyway. Basically Tiger did something good, golf-wise, and basketball baskets were made. Also a big dude came back from injury. Anyway, off we go.

Andrea Bargnani was the first pick of the 2006 NBA Draft, and, to put it simply, he has not lived up to expectations. Sam Mitchell thinks he knows why.

The NBA doesn’t really do traveling, per se. (Someone on YouTube compiled a “Top 10 uncalled Travels” video, and the fact that said video exists is statement enough.) During last night’s Raptors-Trail Blazers game, the Association kept up their proud tradition of looking the other way. Toronto’s Amir Johnson caught the ball just above the elbow and took one dribble towards the basket, awaiting a dribble-handoff. But it wasn’t there, and Johnson wheeled around looking for someone to pass to. Except no one was open. So why not dribble it again, right?

theScore decided to interview some Raptors about their thoughts on the NHL Lockout, presumably wondering if the players were upset that Torontonians were actually noticing their existence and ridiculing their performance, rather than focusing all of their energy on the Leafs. Watch the video, if only for this gem of a quote: “It’s always good to be Mickaël Piétrus for one day. Always.”