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
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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
Raptors, Clippers Unveil New City Edition Uniforms
Tonight, the Los Angeles Clippers and Toronto Raptors both unveiled their new City Edition uniforms; this just mere minutes after the Chicago Blackhawks unveiled their Winter Classic uniform. It’s been a busy few days here, I’d kinda like to rest. Starting with the Clippers because, well, it’s just so much more
A Look at Some Original Proposed Toronto Raptors Logos
It’s always fascinating to get a peek into the designer’s studio and see what could’ve been. This week we were treated to a series of proposed designs, ultimately passed on by the Toronto Raptors in the years leading up to their 1995-96 expansion season courtesy an article in SLAM!. Here’s
Multiple Leaks of New 2018-19 NBA Uniforms Hit Twitter
A slew of NBA uniform leaks hit Twitter over the past few days showing us new uniforms for the Miami Heat, Toronto Raptors, Golden State Warriors, as well as a brief preview of what’s to come, including yet another new uniform style added to the usual rotation. We’ll start with
Raptors New City Uniform Leaks on Media Day
The Toronto Raptors held their annual media day this morning and, as you’d expect, all eyeballs were on their prized off-season acquisition Kawhi Leonard. Fortunately for us, at least one of those eyeballs belong to Instagram user InsideGreenRoom who caught Leonard posing for a headshot while wearing the Raptors new