On Nov. 3, 1995, the Toronto Raptors tipped off against the New Jersey Nets and changed the sports landscape of the city.
The Raptors are now a team to be reckoned with but it wasn’t long ago that people would have laughed at the notion they would ever win an NBA title, let alone by the time their 25th anniversary rolled around.
Why did they become champions? What were the turning points? How comedic, chaotic, tumultuous, and triumphant has the last quarter-century been?
Raptors beat writer Doug Smith (Toronto Star) has pretty much seen it all covering the team from Day 1, and oftentimes he would say, “Man, that’s one for the book.”
Now you have it.
SportsLit (Season 2, Episode 8) - Jim Lang - Everyday Hockey Heroes, Inspiring Stories On and Off the Ice
SportsLit (Season 2, Episode 7) - Joshua Kloke (The Athletic) - Come on You Reds, The Story of TFC
SportsLit (Season 2, Episode 6) - Ken Reid (Sportsnet) - Hockey Card Stories 2
SportsLit (Season 2, Episode 5) - David Shoalts (Globe & Mail) - Hockey Fight in Canada
SportsLit (Season 2, Episode 4) - Rob Simpson - No Heavy Lifting, Globetrotting Adventures of a Sports Media Guy
SportsLit (Season 2, Episode 3)- Daemon Fairless - Mad Blood Stirring, The Inner Lives of Violent Men
SportsLit (Season 2, Episode 2) - Dan Robson (Sportsnet) - Killer, My Life in Hockey - Doug Gilmour
SportsLit (Season 2, Episode 1) - Karl Subban - How We Did It, with Scott Colby (Toronto Star)
SportsLit (Episode No. 3) - - Stacey May Fowles - Best Canadian Sports Writing with Pasha Malla
SportsLit (Episode No. 2) - Greg Oliver (Slam! Wrestling) - Gratooney The Looney - Gilles Gratton
SportsLit (Episode No.1) - Ken Reid (Sportsnet) - Dennis Maruk
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