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Toronto Raptors Unveil Old School Logo for 20th Anniversary

Kyle Newport

Mar 4, 2014

The 2014-2015 season will mark the Toronto Raptors' 20th anniversary of the team's expansion into the NBA, so it's only natural that the organization released a logo to celebrate the milestone.

via Raptors.com

Purple—the team's primary color for 11 years—makes a return on the logo. The anniversary logo does a great job of honoring the past and present. The organization incorporated the team's old font and jagged pinstripes with the team's current claw logo.

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Toronto will sport some variation of the logo on patches next season. The team also announced that 20th anniversary events will be revealed on a later date.

Update: Thursday, March 6 at 9:40 p.m. EST

The Raptors announced fantastic news on Thursday. For select home games next season, the team will wear throwback jerseys:

Awesome.

Toronto also released a 20th anniversary video that shows off the franchise's jerseys:

[Toronto Raptors Twitter, Toronto Raptors]

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Hopefully that means they will wear throwback jerseys: