The

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are a Canadian professional

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team based in

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. They play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the

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(NBA). The Raptors are the only Canadian-based NBA team. The team joined the NBA in 1995 as an expansion team with the

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(which relocated to

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in 2001). The Raptors first played their home games at the SkyDome (now known as the Rogers Centre), before moving to

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(formerly the Air Canada Centre) in 1999, where they have played since. The Raptors are owned by

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and Bobby Webster is their

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. There have been nine

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es for the Raptors franchise. The franchise's first head coach was Brendan Malone, who coached for one season.

Dwane Casey Dwane Lyndon Casey (born April 17, 1957) is an American basketball coach who is the head coach for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is a former NCAA basketball player and coach, having played and coached there ...

is the franchise's all-time leader for the most regular-season games coached (397) and the most regular-season game wins (210). Casey is the franchise's all-time leader for the most playoff games coached (51), as well as the most playoff-game wins (21).

Lenny Wilkens Leonard Randolph Wilkens (born October 28, 1937) is an American former basketball player and coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has been inducted three times into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, first in 1989 as ...

is the only Raptors coaches to have been elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach. Sam Mitchell, Dwane Casey and Nick Nurse are the only Raptors coaches to have won the

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, having won it in the , 2017–18 season, and 2019-20 season respectively.

Butch Carter Clarence Eugene "Butch" Carter Jr. (born June 11, 1958) is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He played college basketball at Indiana University. Early years Carter excelled in basketball and football at Middletown Hig ...

, Kevin O'Neill, and

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have spent their entire NBA head coaching careers with the Raptors. Triano was the interim head coach of the Raptors since Mitchell was fired. Triano is the first Canadian head coach in NBA history. Nick Nurse is the only Raptors coach to have won an NBA Championship ( 2018-19 NBA season) and holds the franchise's highest winning percentage in the regular season (.707) and playoffs (.667). He is currently the Raptors head coach as of the 2022-2023 NBA season.

Key

Coaches

''Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the .'' File:Brendan Malone in 2008.jpg, Brendan Malone was the first head coach of the Raptors from to . File:Sam Mitchell (1705066) (cropped).jpg, Sam Mitchell was the head coach for the Raptors from to . File:Jay Triano.jpg,

was the head coach from to . File:Dw.ca.PNG,

was the longest-serving head coach from to . File:NICK NURSE (Crop).jpg, Nick Nurse is the current coach of the Raptors.

Notes

* A running total of the number of coaches of the Raptors. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is only counted once. * Each year is linked to an article about that particular NBA season.

References

;General * ;Specific {{DEFAULTSORT:Toronto Raptors head coaches Lists of National Basketball Association head coaches by team *

head coaches A head coach, senior coach or manager is a professional at training and developing athletes. They typically hold a more public profile and are paid more than other coaches. In some sports, the head coach is instead called the "manager", as in asso ...