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Toronto Raptors
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Toronto Raptors
The
Toronto Raptors
are a Canadian professional
basketball
team based in
Toronto
,
Ontario
. The Raptors compete in the
National Basketball Association
(NBA), as a member of the league's
Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division
. The team was established in 1995, along with the
Vancouver Grizzlies
, as part of the NBA's
expansion
into Canada. When the Grizzlies
relocated
to
Memphis, Tennessee
to become the
Memphis Grizzlies
in 2001, the Raptors became the only Canadian-based team in the NBA. They originally played their home games at the
SkyDome
(since renamed Rogers Centre in 2005), before moving eastward along Bremner Boulevard to the
Air Canada Centre
in 1999.
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