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Toronto Raptors

Canadian basketball team

Written by Adam Augustyn

Fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Last Updated: Jan 18, 2025 • Article History

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Date:: 1995 - present

Headquarters:: Toronto

Areas Of Involvement:: basketball

Related People:: Kawhi Leonard

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Kristaps Porzingis says Celtics had "no spirit, no personality" after brutal loss to Raptors • Jan. 17, 2025, 12:53 AM ET (CBS)

Toronto Raptors upset Boston Celtics, Houston Rockets rout Denver Nuggets • Jan. 16, 2025, 3:57 AM ET (Straits Times)

Darius Garland bags 40 as Cleveland Cavaliers down Toronto Raptors for 12th straight win • Jan. 10, 2025, 9:38 PM ET (Straits Times)

Antetokounmpo needs 3 stitches in finger and returns to post a triple-double in win over Raptors • Jan. 6, 2025, 10:40 PM ET (AP)

Toronto Raptors, Canadian professional basketball team based in Toronto that plays in the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Raptors have won one conference title and one NBA championship (both 2019). The Raptors joined the NBA in 1995 as an expansion team alongside the Western Conference’s Vancouver Grizzlies. The two expansion teams were the first NBA franchises based in Canada. (An earlier team, the Toronto Huskies, played in the Basketball Association of America—one of the forerunners of the NBA—during the 1946–47 season.) The Raptors finished in last place in their division in each of their first three ...(100 of 534 words)

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