With the National Basketball Association getting set to resume their 2019-20 season at Disney World in Orlando, one artist is taking the opportunity to transform the league’s logos into a whole new world. PKAirDesigns, a self-described “artist and sneakerhead” based out of Melbourne, Australia has mashed up our favourite NBA
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Toronto Thunder? What Could Have Been For Expansion Raptors
Before the Thunder rumbled all over the NBA from Oklahoma City it could’ve been from Toronto… or so we’ve just learned. Today Richard Peddie, the former CEO of Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment Tweeted a photo of him having lunch with current MLSE chairman Larry Tanenbaum while wearing an unusual
Raptors Throwing Back Tonight, Wearing Classic Dino Uniforms
The Toronto Raptors are bringing it all the way back to the very beginning tonight when they début their “Classic Edition” 1995 white throwback uniforms against the Orlando Magic. The uniforms are based on what the team wore at home for the first four seasons from the Damon Stoudamire led
Raptors Adding a Little Extra Gold to Opening Night Outfits
The Toronto Raptors are all set to tip-off the 2019-20 NBA season tomorrow night, but first, they’ll take one last opportunity to bask in the golden glow of their 2018-19 championship. For their home opener on Tuesday against the Zion Williamson-less New Orleans Pelicans, the Toronto Raptors will wear special
Grizzlies vs Raptors Highlights 2019-20 NBA Throwback Uniform Schedule
The National Basketball Association will see plenty of throwback uniforms, officially known as “Classic Edition”, during the upcoming 2019-20 season as twelve teams will wear thirteen throwbacks a total of 156 times across 142 games. We’ll see the return of the Buffalo Braves by way of the LA Clippers, the
Raptors Bringing Back Original Uniforms in 2020
The NBA Champions will be celebrating their 25th season in style this fall with the return of an old look from the 1990s. Straight outta 1995, the Toronto Raptors announced today they will be wearing their original home white uniforms, giant red raptor and all, for a handful of games
Studio Stories: Naming and Designing the Original Toronto Raptors
It was the mid-1990s. Purple was trendy, and a new expansion NBA team in Toronto needed to break through the hockey-thick culture to attract youth. There was nothing better than an oversized green raptor on a purple uniform. Well, until that raptor turned red. The Toronto Raptors started play in
From A Collector to Courtside: How Drake Got His Curry Jersey
Imagine yourself, an avid sports jersey collector, sitting at home and seeing one of your most cherished pieces of that collection on the sidelines at the NBA Finals. That’s what Game One was like for Ben Weil, a 34-year-old basketball and Dell Curry fan from Queens, New York. Weil’s prized
Toronto Argos Celebrate Raptors Run With Jersey Patch
We The Six. The Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League took to the field this morning to kick off their 2019 pre-season schedule and did so paying much respect to another Toronto team ready to make some history. In tribute to the Toronto Raptors first appearance in the NBA
2019 NBA Finals Uniform Schedule: Raptors vs Warriors
The Toronto Raptors against the Golden State Warriors, The North against The Town, welcome to the 2019 NBA Finals. For the first time in NBA history, the league’s championship will be played outside the United States as the Raptors clinched their first berth in the finals with a six-game series
2019 NBA Conference Finals Uniform Schedules Set: No Red for Raptors
The NBA’s Conference Finals get underway tonight with the Golden State Warriors hosting the Portland Trail Blazers for Game One in the West and then again tomorrow when the Toronto Raptors visit the Milwaukee Bucks when they start their Eastern Final. Thanks to the NBA’s pre-scheduling of all their uniforms
NBA Unveils New Earned Uniform for 16 Teams
The National Basketball Association and Nike today unveiled the sixteen new alternate “Earned” uniforms that’ll be worn between Christmas and the end of the season by teams that qualified for the playoffs last season. The idea is that the teams “earned” the honour of getting an additional (fifth!) uniform option