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We the North : 25 years of the Toronto Raptors  Cover Image Book Book

We the North : 25 years of the Toronto Raptors / Doug Smith ; foreword by Vince Carter.

Smith, Doug, 1958- (author.). Carter, Vince, (writer of foreword.).

Summary:

"Bringing Jurassic Park to your home, a celebration of the 25th anniversary of Canada's most exciting team. Comprising twenty-five chapters to mark the team's twenty-five years, We the North celebrates the biggest moments of the quarter-century--from Vince Carter's amazing display at the dunk competition to the play-off runs, the major trades, the Raptors' incredible fans, including Nav Bhatia and Drake, and of course the challenges that marked the route to the championship-clinching Game 6 that brought the whole country to a standstill. We the North: 25 Years of the Toronto Raptors tells the story of Canada's most exciting team, charting their rise from a sporting oddity in a hockey-mad country to the status they hold today as the reigning NBA champions and national heroes"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780735240360 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 248 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto : Viking, 2020.

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General Note:
Includes index.
Subject: Toronto Raptors (Basketball team)

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Lakeshore Branch 796.3236409713541 Smi 31681010212264 NONFIC Available -

DOUG SMITH is a sports reporter for the Toronto Star and has covered the Raptors since their inception in 1995. He is recognized throughout the NBA as the expert on all things Raptors, and spent five years serving as the first and only non-American president of the Professional Basketball Writers Association, a group of more than 200 men and women who regularly cover the league and its teams. His international basketball experience includes major assignments at the1992 FIBA Tournament Of The Americas (which was the debut of the United States Dream Team), the 1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta, 2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing, 2012 London and 2016 Rio Olympics, as well as men's world championships in Toronto, Indianapolis, Athens and Izmir and Istanbul, Turkey.


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