Hoop Heads North & Hip Hoop Junkies discuss the Toronto Raptors' favourable schedule in the month of February, and DeMar DeRozan's exclusion from the NBA Rookie Team in the upcoming NBA T-Mobile Rookie Challenge.

As we did in our last video blog, for some comedy, we start off the vlog with a spoof - this time of the infamous Hedo Turkoglu/Jack Armstrong post game 'Ball' interview.

As always, much love to Jeorge Sadi for directing and doing the camera work and to U-E Sampang for super quick edit!

As always, be sure to let us know what you think and stay tuned for more vlogs discussing Raptors hot topics and views from the blogging homies of HHN & HHJ!

In case you haven't heard of this fine gentleman Tristan 'T.K.' Thorpe, better known as DJ Plaeboi, is one half of the multiple award winning dj tandem, 4Plae. As a 5-time Stylus Award winner he's opened for various hip hop artists & DJs; both legends (KRS-One, Nas, and Afrika Bambaataa for example) and up & coming artists alike. If you haven't had the chance to check out his skills on the '1s & 2s' you can check out some of his past live-to-air broadcasts and podcasts here. Trust me, you will love the mixes! 

He is definitely of my favourite DJs, so it was only right that we connect with him to chat and get his thoughts about various issues dealing with music & sports.

We always like to show love to our people who are representing Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Canada in a major way. He's even heading to South Beach this week to spin at some Super Bowl parties! "Niiiiice!" (c) Fabolous

Check out the Q&A we recently did with the one and only, DJ Plaeboi:

Wow! Talk about unexpected! Our fam, the talented duo of Akil & Kat of Raptors NBATV's fan driven & all access show 'Raptorpace', featured us right off the bat of this week's telecast. Much love to both of you for a great show and opportunities for Raptors Nation to have a larger voice and to connect with each other - even offline, as evidenced by the recent tweet-up! (Wish we lived closer to have attended!)

Check it out!

We were also featured later in the show along with several other Raptorspace.com video bloggers. Look for us at the 2:38 mark of the video. Also be sure to check out our guest blogger Payal Doshi @ the 1:54 mark of the video for another a great recap as usual! To watch the full episode that also featured an all-access fan 'meet & greet' with Chris Bosh & Jarrett Jack, click here and select the 'RaptorSpace' link on the left hand side.

Once again, our Bloguin brother Dave Kelsey was the man behind the scenes collecting the votes and comments from our fellow brother & sister Bloguin NBA blogs. The result? The 5th NBA Power Rankings for the 2009-2010 season from the collective NBA bloggers here on the Bloguin network! You know Hoop Heads North had to weigh in too . Check the link below to see how the Bloguin NBA crew thinks the league shakes out at this point in the season:

"Through out the year, we'll ask our esteemed Bloguin Basketball blogs to vote on the NBA from top to bottom. It's three solid months into the NBA season and we are starting to get a pretty good idea for "who's who" amongst these teams. Here is what the Bloguin NBA Bloggers had to say..."

Hoop Heads North & Hip Hoop Junkies discuss the Raptors' success over the past month, the DeMar DeRozan/Eric Gordon 'Dunk-In' & the 2010 NBA All-Star Slam Dunk Contest, Chris Bosh eclipsing Vince Carter's record for most points scored by a Toronto Raptor in franchise history, and finally, a callout to all Raptors fans to do their part to try and make Chris Bosh the first free agent inked this off-season with the Toronto Raptors!

For some comedy we start off the vlog with a spoof of the Hedo Turkoglu/Jay Triano Pizza Pizza TV commercial.

As always, much love to Jeorge Sadi for directing and doing the camera work, also Romy Aquino for the post-production & editing, and U-E Sampang for the spoof idea!

Be sure to let us know what you think and stay tuned for more vlogs discussing Raptors hot topics and views from the blogging homies of HHN & HHJ!

By now we've all seen the devastation and the dispair caused by Tuesday night's earthquake in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.

Haiti has been ravaged as of late by natural disasters and they were slowly recovering from the hurricanes of 2008, only to find themselves once again scrambling for shelter, food, and supplies. The response from around the world has been incredible, as it was with the Asian Tsunami disaster of 2004.

Haitian-Canadian and Philadelphia 76er Samuel Dalembert personally donated $100,000 plus matching fans' donations during the Sixers' home game this past Friday night to UNICEF for Haiti Relief Efforts on behalf of his foundation. 

The NBA and the Players Association have donated one million dollars in support and have also issued a call to action asking people to support UNICEF.

Samuel was on 'Larry King Live' this week speaking about the disaster that has had such an effect on his homeland:

How YOU can help:

Recently the Chris Bosh Foundation treated some local Greater Toronto Area youth to spending a day with Chris Bosh while sharing a meal and getting a chance to shop at SportChek on CB4's dime!

This was a really nice gesture on Chris' part to include as many children as he could to spread the spirit of Christmas. Former Raptor Jermaine O'Neal held a similar day for underprivileged youth in the GTA last season, and I was really impressed by that given J.O.'s short amount of time he spent with the Raptors franchise. Just another example of those with the ability to make a difference doing so. The generosity & kindness always shines through. As a long time fan of the NBA these are the type of assists that really matter to me.

Thanks to Kat & Akil of Raptors NBATV & Raptorspace.com for sharing this piece with Toronto Raptors & NBA fans.

Big props to my man Lives at KnicksFanaticsBlog for heading up the 2nd Bloguin NBA-A-Thon of the year. For those not familiar with the NBA-A-Thon, it's a cool concept where one of the awesome Bloguin NBA blogs hosts a post that is a collection of great NBA related stories, articles, and pieces from across Bloguin network. Lives put a pretty cool spin on it this time around calling it the 'TOP TEN RESOLUTIONS FOR 2010'. I'm still laughing at some of the resolutions - great job my man!

Another one of our blogging fraternity, Don from With Malice did a great job with the first NBA-A-Thon session of the season. Go and peep all the great NBA articles from the awesome NBA blogs on the Bloguin network if you didn't check it out the first time around!

Ok, seriously, what are you waiting for? Go right now and enjoy the NBA-A-Thon! :)

Hoop Heads North & Hip Hoop Junkies discuss the Toronto Huskies Hardwood Classics jerseys, the Raptors' previous games that week, and we present a comedic look at Jarrett Jack's, now infamous, in-game shoe tying:

As always, much love to Jeorge Sadi for directing and doing the camera work and to U-E Sampang for the post-production & editing of our fourth video blog installment.

Be sure to let us know what you think and stay tuned for more vlogs discussing Raptors hot topics and views from the blogging homies of HHN & HHJ!

Hoop Heads North & Hip Hoop Junkies discuss the current issues surrounding the Raptors play, their toughness, our surprises & disappointments, and the upcoming schedule.

As always much love to Jeorge Sadi for directing and doing the camera work and to U-E Sampang for the post-production & editing of our third video blog installment.

As always, be sure to let us know what you think and stay tuned for more vlogs discussing Raptors hot topics and views from the blogging homies of HHN & HHJ!