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TodayAt present, the Toronto Raptors have an excellent, but success-starved fan base. Despite having only won one playoff series in franchise history, the Raptors continue to draw attendances in the top half of the NBA. The team is known to have one of the largest and most passionate fan bases in the NBA. The Raptors have struggled especially after the trading away of Vince Carter, in which the team received relatively little in return. Chris Bosh, a budding star center/power forward is currently the face of the Raptors being named to the all star team in 2006. Bosh is currently in his third season with the team, with a team option for a fourth year and the right to match any offer before his fifth (as he is a restricted free agent after his fourth year). Bosh has the option of signing a one-year qualifying offer in his fifth season, at which point he would become an unrestricted free agent. The Raptors 2005-2006 season has thus far been viewed as a disappointment. After losing the first nine games of the 2005-2006 season, and fifteen out of sixteen overall, Toronto's difficulties continued when the team gave up an 18 point lead to the Los Angeles Lakers in a January 22, 2006 game, and allowed Laker star Kobe Bryant to score 81 points, second highest one game total in NBA history. On January 26, 2006, the Raptors fired G.M. Rob Babcock, and replaced him with interim G.M. Wayne Embry. On February 27, 2006 the Toronto Raptors named former Phoenix Suns President and General Manager Bryan Colangelo, the 2005 NBA Executive of the Year, the President and General Manager of the Raptors. It only took one month to find a suitable replacement for Rob Babcock as General Manager. On Sunday, March 12th, 2006 the Toronto Raptors made history by breaking the existing NBA record of most consecutive games with a three pointer. Morris Peterson hit the three to make the Raptors the NBA history holder of most consecutive games with a three pointer, with 595 games and going. On Tuesday, May 23, 2006 the Toronto Raptors recieved the No. 1 pick in the 2006 NBA draft, after the NBA Draft Lottery was conducted in Secaucus, N.J.
Franchise History (By Seasons)
1995-96After Isiah Thomas was named the general manager in 1995, he quickly staffed the management with his own personnel, including the first head coach Brendan Malone (who was later reunited with Thomas in the Knicks organization in 2003). During the summer of 1995, the league had an expansion draft to fill out the rosters of the new Toronto Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies. As a result of a coin flip, the Raptors had the first pick of the expansion draft, and selected Chicago Bulls point-guard and 3-point specialist BJ Armstrong. In a move that would seem to be a constant theme throughout Toronto's early days, BJ threatened not to come to camp and Isiah Thomas promptly moved him. Thomas selected a wide range of players in the expansion draft, including veterans Jerome Kersey, Willie Anderson and John "spider" Salley.
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