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TORONTO - Masai Ujiri wasted little time in making his first move of the offseason. Just one day after their season came to an abrupt end, the Raptors have reached an agreement on a three-year contract extension with head coach Dwane Casey, sources confirm to TSN.ca Monday evening. In his third year with the team, Casey, 57, helped lead the Raptors to a franchise-record 48-win season en route to a division title and opening-round elimination to the Brooklyn Nets in a seven-game playoff series. Addressing the media after cleaning out their lockers Monday afternoon, Caseys players seemed to be aware of the teams plans to bring him back. "I think hell be back," said Kyle Lowry, an unrestricted free agent. "Simple as that. Matter of fact, Im sure hell be back." Casey was brought in by former Raptors general manager Bryan Colangelo ahead of the 2010-11 season after he had won a championship as an assistant in Dallas the year prior. Right out of the gate, he took a team that had ranked near the bottom of the league in every defensive category, a long-time NBA doormat, and immediately changed the culture. After his third-year option was picked up, Casey had mixed results at the helm of the Raptors in his second season, getting off to a slow start and clashing with Lowry. Instead of discarding Casey for his own coach, Ujiri - the incoming GM - opted to give him a one-year trial, to which he did not disappoint. Both he and Lowry developed a mutual respect, as the point guard turned in a career year, DeMar DeRozan blossomed into an all-star and the team went on to exceed every rationale pre-season expectation. Casey became the fourth coach in franchise history to lead the Raptors to the postseason and his fingerprints can be found on the development of Torontos many young players. "Hes been a great coach," sophomore Terrence Ross said Monday. "Hes helped me with a lot. Hes taught me a lot, especially when it comes to defence. I give him a lot of credit for how I play on the court." "One thing I respect about coach Casey, man, hes been consistent," DeRozan added. "Hes been the same Dwane Casey since hes been here, preached the same thing, told us to stick with the same principles and theyll work. We did it, and everything he said came together like he said it would." "You could go in his office, knock on his door, talk to him whenever, you could text him," he continued. "Hes a players coach. Hes a great dude. Sometimes you dont even look at him like a coach because you could go up to him and talk to Dwane about any situation. I think thats what helped us a lot." Casey ranks third in team history with 105 wins, behind Sam Mitchell and Lenny Wilkens and recently became the first coach to lead the Raptors to multiple seasons holding opponents under 100 points and below 45 per cent from the field. 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The most significant deals will get the full Numbers Game column treatment, like these:Briere-for-Parenteau trade.NEW YORK, N.Y. - Believe it or not, the New York Knicks were a winning team last time Charlotte was here.Now theyre the worst in the NBA — and potentially the worst in Knicks history.Kemba Walker added to the best stretch of his career with 28 more points, and the streaky Charlotte Hornets extended the Knicks losing streak to 15 games with a 110-82 rout on Saturday.New York hung around for 1 1/2 quarters before being run buried under a 27-2 avalanche to finish the half that produced some of the most booming boos of the season at Madison Square Garden.It kind of just went bad real quick, forward Quincy Acy said. It looked like we kind of just gave up.These days, its hard to tell even when theyre trying.Charlotte won its fifth in a row and did it so easily that Walker played only three quarters. That was still enough for him to surpass 25 points for the fifth straight time.The Hornets outscored the Knicks 41-13 in the second quarter and were ahead 89-44 after three.Right now were clicking, Walker said.Bismack Biyombo added 14 points, tying a career high, and 12 rebounds for the Hornets, the latest team to enjoy a laugher at the expense of the Knicks. New York fell to 5-35 with its 25th loss in 26 games.Acy had 18 points for the Knicks, playing without Carmelo Anthony, Amare Stoudemire and Andrea Bargnani.New York reaches the midway point of its schedule Thursday when it plays Milwaukee in London. The Knicks are on their longest single-season skid ever and free-falling toward their worst finish, which is 23-59 in the 82-game schedule.Amazingly, New York was 2-1 after beating Charlotte here on Nov. 2. Now the Knicks could be headed toward more NBA infamy, as they are on pace to finish with fewer than 15 wins, which is the least in an 82-game schedule for a team that was above .500 at any point during the season, according to STATS.Presideent of Basketball Operations Phil Jackson took the blame before the game, though said he was doing whats best for the franchises future.ddddddddddddWe hope were on the right track, even though this isnt the track we anticipated, Jackson said.The Hornets are on the right track, though they havent stayed on the same one for long this season. They lost four in a row last month, then won four, then lost five straight before this win streak, their longest of the season.Even playing without injured starters Al Jefferson and Lance Stephenson, they averaged 100.8 points during the previous four games. They were already at 89 after three quarters of this one, when they led by 45.This is the best offence that weve played over a number of games, coach Steve Clifford said.TIP-INSHornets: Walker had 30 or more in the first three games of his streak before scoring 29 in a victory at Toronto on Thursday. ... Cody Zeller (right shoulder strain) and P.J. Hairston (illness) both returned after missing the previous game. Hairston scored 15 points.Knicks: Rookie Cleanthony Early made his first start. He shot 2 of 9 for six points. ... New York signed Lance Thomas and Lou Amundson to 10-day contracts earlier Saturday. Both players had previously been waived after they were acquired earlier this week in the three-team trade that sent J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert to Cleveland.HONORS FOR WALKER?Walker will be a strong candidate for Eastern Conference player of the week when the award is announced Monday. An All-Star berth will be tougher given the Hornets 15-24 record, but Walker said he doesnt think much about it anyway, even with the game here in his hometown.Right now Im just focused on winning and just keep racking up wins for my team, he said.UP NEXTHornets: Host San Antonio on Wednesday.Knicks: Against Milwaukee in London on Thursday. ' ' '