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Why is the NBA Basketball Team the Toronto Raptors named after a dinosaur?

 
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Why is the NBA Basketball Team the Toronto Raptors named after a dinosaur?
A Raptor is a dinosaur predator bird
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Re: Why is the NBA Basketball Team the Toronto Raptors named after a dinosaur?
Logos and Uniforms

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Fueled by the success of the Jurassic Park film and the popularity of dinosaurs with younger audiences, who would grow up to be fans of the franchise, the team's first logo originally featured an aggressive-looking, red Velociraptor dribbling a basketball (albeit reminiscent of Jurassic Park's featherless depiction of the creatures, rather than the actual, believed to be feathered dromaeosaurid since the mid-2000s).


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Re: Why is the NBA Basketball Team the Toronto Raptors named after a dinosaur?
seemed like a good idea at the time
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Re: Why is the NBA Basketball Team the Toronto Raptors named after a dinosaur?
seemed like a good idea at the time
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Re: Why is the NBA Basketball Team the Toronto Raptors named after a dinosaur?
Best name in the league





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