Rafer Alston is the New Vince Carter

Last February, Rafer Alston threw a fit of the hissy variety during a game, and the TOist sports editor took note. Then Alston's mother was trolling the internet for negative comments about her son, found our site, and defended her sweet little prince in the comments section. It went like this:

you have the story -ss backwards. Why din't you ask the raptors organization what really happened. Posted by: geraldine alston

Oh, mothers (shaking head). Good thing Torontoist is here to set things straight with all those mothers and sons around the GTA. As for this mother-son tandem, they won't be bothering us again - Rafer Alston got traded to Houston yesterday.