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Arena :
Air Canada Centre
Championships : None
Headcoach : Joey Triano
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Background - Toronto Raptors
As the Toronto Raptors approached their scheduled home opener at the SkyDome on November 3, 1995, club President John I. Bitove could congratulate himself on having pulled off a remarkable achievement.
Bringing NBA basketball back to Toronto, where the long-forgotten Toronto Huskies had tipped off against the New York Knickerbockers in 1946, had been an arduous process, fraught with obstacle after obstacle. It had not been such a struggle a half-century ago, when the Huskies became a charter member of the Basketball Association of America, the forerunner of the NBA. In fact, Toronto had hosted the new league's first game on November 1, 1946, when the Knicks beat the Huskies, 68-66. The Toronto franchise folded at the end of the 1946-47 season, however, and the NBA wouldn't return to Canada for nearly 50 years.
The current franchise traces its roots back to April 23, 1993, when the NBA announced that it had received a formal application from Professional Basketball Franchise (Canada) Inc. (PBF). The ambitious group's president was Bitove, the son of a leading Canadian food services family and president of Bitove Investments Inc. (His father, John Bitove Sr., had approached the NBA about a franchise in Toronto during previous expansions.) The PBF group also included Allan Slaight of Standard Broadcasting Limited; Borden Osmak, a vice president of The Bank of Nova Scotia; Phil Granovsky of Atlantic Packaging Limited; and David Peterson, former premier of the Province of Ontario, who served as chairman.
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Toronto Raptors 2009-10
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 While the current face of the Toronto Raptors is most certainly Chris Bosh, the team did choose to pick up some added help in the offseason with the acquisition of free agent Hedo Turkoglu, who now provides a European feel to the Raptors. DeMar DeRozan was also drafted as the future star for Toronto, but as a raw talent it is not likely that he will contribute much as a rookie this season. Even though Toronto has two quality players with Bosh and Turkoglu, the team will still need for others to step up their game in order to make a difference in the playoffs. While having to overcome a coaching change just one month into the 2008-2009 season, the Toronto Raptors fought to make as much as they could out of last season, after Jay Triano replaced Sam Mitchell as the Raptors' head coach on the very early date of December 3rd – a surprisingly premature time for a coaching change and wake-up call of this type. The rest of the season became a very rough tour around the NBA, as Toronto lost five straight games in December, seven straight in January, and six straight from the final week of January through the end of the first week in February. Unfortunately, this was a stretch that the Toronto Raptors were never able to rebound from, and they were just happy when the season finally ended, and they could look forward to 2009-2010. The Toronto Raptors improved immensely during the offseason, with General Manager Bryan Colangelo providing his new coach with considerable infusions of depth, power, and chemistry, over the course of a summer filled with negotiations. Toronto snatched Hedo Turkoglu from Orlando, swapped Devean George for Marco Belinelli of Golden State – giving core member Andrea Bargnani an Italian teammate, while also acquiring role players Jarrett Jack from Indiana, Antoine Wright from Dallas, and Reggie Evans from Philadelphia, to fill in the gaps. Not stopping there, for good measure the Raptors also drafted USC's ultra-athletic wingman, DeMar DeRozan. Quite obviously, GM Colangelo not only added quality everywhere on the floor, but most-assuredly improved the camaraderie in the locker room as well. Bargnani, Bosh, and Jose Calderon – the nucleus of the team in recent years – now have some great pieces to work with on a distinctly international roster. These Raptors should mesh well under the Canadian-born Triano, who is not only popular within the Toronto organization, but is acting like a man who truly appreciates being in a situation in which his own career can flourish. NBA teams need talent and cohesiveness in order to thrive; all early indicators point toward the Raptors being on their way to a playoff season, and even making some serious waves once they get there. Get your tickets now and watch the rejuvenated Toronto Raptors' as they light up the Air Canada Centre on their way a great season.
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