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Established: | 1995 |
Stadium: | Scotiabank Arena |
Championships: | 1 |
Conference: | Eastern |
Division: | Atlantic |
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The Toronto Raptors are a Canadian professional basketball team based in Toronto, Ontario. The Toronto Raptors compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of an Eastern Conference club in the Atlantic Division. The team was founded in 1995 as part of the NBA's expansion into Canada, along with the Vancouver Grizzlies. The Raptors have been the only Canadian team in the league since the Grizzlies moved from Vancouver, British Columbia to Memphis, Tennessee prior to the 2001-2002 NBA season. The Raptors play their home games at Scotiabank Arena.
Like most expansion teams, the Toronto Raptors struggled in their early years, but after the acquisition of Vince Carter through a trade in the 1998 draft, the team set league attendance records and made the NBA playoffs in 2000, 2001 and 2002. He was instrumental in leading the team to its first playoff series in 2001, where they advanced to the Eastern Conference semifinals. During the 2002-03 and 2003-04 seasons, they failed to make significant progress, and Carter was traded in 2004 to the New Jersey Nets.
After Carter left, Chris Bosh emerged as the team's leader. For the 2006-07 season, Bryan Colangelo was named general manager and, through a combination of Bosh, 2006 first overall draft pick Andrea Bargnani, and a revamped roster, the Toronto Raptors qualified for their first playoffs in five years by reaching the Atlantic Division title. In the 2007-08 season, they also advanced to the playoffs, but failed to reach the postseason in each of the next five seasons. Colangelo overhauled the team's roster for the 2009-10 season in an attempt to persuade free agent Bosh to stay, but Bosh left to sign with the Miami Heat in July 2010, ushering in another rebuilding era for the Toronto Raptors.
Masai Ujiri replaced Colangelo in 2013, and helped usher in a new era of success, led by guard duo Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan. The Toronto Raptors returned to the playoffs the following year and became a consistent playoff team in every year of Ujiri's tenure. Under Ujiri, the team also won five division titles and recorded its most successful regular season in 2018. However, the team's failure to get beyond the conference finals led Ujiri to fire head coach Dwane Casey shortly after the playoffs concluded and bring in the DeRozan-for-Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green trades later that summer, as well as the acquisition of Marc Gasol before the trade deadline. In the 2019 playoffs, the Toronto Raptors won their first Eastern Conference title over the Milwaukee Bucks and advanced to the franchise's first NBA Finals, where they defeated the Golden State Warriors in six games to win their first championship.
Toronto Championships |
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Championships |
1 Title 2019 |
Conference Titles |
1 Title 2019 |
Division Titles |
7 Titles 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020 |
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