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The 23-year-old is also in the process of enhancing his connection with the fans through his own web site -- Chris-Bosh.com. Having seen the success his "Vote Chris Bosh to New Orleans" video had, he has put out another video, this one aimed at a specific target, the basketball crazies over at RealGM.com, a web site for only the most passionate basketball fans.

"Me and my business partner had the idea," Bosh said. "We know that RealGM has a big community and a lot of people look at that stuff so we thought why not direct a personal message at everyone and let them know I am interested in my web site, I'm very hands-on and they can choose to participate in it."

Smack in the middle of one of the busier portions of their schedule -- four games in five nights -- the Raptors' practice yesterday was kept rather light. Head coach Sam Mitchell said the Raptors are able to do this because they keep change to a minimum.

"The good thing about what we do and what we try to do defensively especially, is we know our principals so we don't have to go change everything if we have four games in five days," Mitchell said. "This is how we play, these are the things we are going to do. Now we tweak it but we don't make any major changes."

There's little to suggest any one of the Raptors will take the opportunity to send Horford sprawling; there really isn't anyone on the Toronto team who has that in their DNA.

They seem to be a group that would most like to avenge Ford's injury by hammering the Hawks on the scoreboard, not hammering them into physical submission.

But that's not going to be easy.

The Raptors catch a break tonight in one sense because the Hawks, for all their talent