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Originally Posted by Firebot
The biggest thing for the Raptors is how they were able to win, in a league where most of the players would do anything they can to not play up north. Even at the very beginning when BJ Armstrong refused to play for the Raptors, with anti-expansion team expansion draft rules, the deck was heavily stacked against them. The Vancouver Grizzlies could not survive, and it took 25 years of grueling disappointment and rejection to finally get it done.
This is way bigger than the Blue Jays winning.
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For people who dog on Vince Carter, he saved the Rapyirs franchise. They could have been the Grizzlies.