Toronto Raptors Trivia
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49 free Toronto Raptors trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Toronto Raptors trivia quiz starts with the Huskies hosting the first NBA game in 1946, the record $125 million expansion fee, the nationwide naming contest that Jurassic Park won, Isiah Thomas as GM and Damon Stoudamire being booed at the SkyDome, then covers the Vince Carter years — the dunk contest, the graduation-day Game 7 — and Chris Bosh's era. It then covers Masai Ujiri's rebuild, DeRozan and Lowry, Dwane Casey's firing weeks after Coach of the Year, the trade for Kawhi Leonard, the first Game 7 buzzer-beater in playoff history, the 2019 title over Golden State, the season in Tampa, Scottie Barnes and the return of Jurassic Park — plus Drake, We The North, the Huskies throwbacks and the retired numbers. Questions run from easy to hard with the difficulty shown on each one. Every answer has been checked against a primary reference and each question carries its citation.
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Q 01In 1946 the Toronto Huskies hosted which team in what became the first game in NBA history?
New York Knicks
The New York Knicks, then the Knickerbockers, who won 68–66. The Huskies gave free tickets to any fan taller than their tallest player, George Nostrand, and still folded after a single season.
Q 02Which other Canadian city joined the NBA alongside Toronto as an expansion team in 1995?
Vancouver
Vancouver, whose Grizzlies lasted six seasons in British Columbia before moving to Memphis in 2001, which left Toronto as the league's only Canadian franchise.
Q 03What nearly cost Toronto its NBA franchise before the Raptors played a game?
Sports lottery
Sports lottery. Ontario's Pro-Line took bets on NBA games, which the league would not allow, so the province had to drop basketball from its tickets for the next 15 years.
Q 04Why did the Raptors decide against reviving the Toronto Huskies name in 1994?
Any logo would resemble the Timberwolves'
Any logo would resemble the Timberwolves', management reportedly decided, so the old name was dropped and a national contest held instead; its ten finalists included the Beavers, the Hogs and the Tarantulas.
Q 05Which Hall of Fame point guard was hired in 1994 to run the expansion Raptors' basketball operations?
Isiah Thomas
Isiah Thomas. The Pistons great also bought a stake in the team, then cut his ties with it early in the third season and became a television commentator.
Q 06Which colour in the Raptors' original uniforms was named to honour the Canadian inventor of basketball?
'Naismith' silver
'Naismith' silver. James Naismith was a Canadian, though he invented the game at a school in Massachusetts in 1891; his silver sat beside bright red, purple and black in the first Raptors colours.
Q 07Which point guard, booed by fans on draft night in 1995, went on to win Rookie of the Year for Toronto?
Damon Stoudamire
Damon Stoudamire, nicknamed 'Mighty Mouse', averaged 19 points and 9.3 assists as a rookie; the draft-night crowd had wanted UCLA's Ed O'Bannon.
Q 08Who was the Raptors' first pick in the 1995 expansion draft, only to refuse to report?
B. J. Armstrong
B. J. Armstrong, a sharpshooting guard with three championship rings, never played for Toronto; he was traded to Golden State for Carlos Rogers, Victor Alexander and other pieces.
Q 09Where did the Raptors play their home games before the Air Canada Centre opened in 1999?
SkyDome
SkyDome. The baseball stadium was meant as a two-season stopgap while an arena was built, but the Raptors were still playing there in their fourth season when the Air Canada Centre finally opened.
Q 10Vince Carter came to Toronto in a 1998 draft-day trade for which fourth overall pick?
Antawn Jamison
Antawn Jamison went fourth to Toronto and was swapped for Vince Carter, taken fifth by Golden State; the two had been teammates at North Carolina.
Q 11Vince Carter's last-second miss ended the Raptors' 2001 playoffs hours after he did what that morning?
Attended his university graduation
Attended his university graduation. Carter went to the ceremony at North Carolina that morning, scored 20 points on 6-for-18 shooting that night, and saw his potential series-winner roll off the rim.
Q 12In 2004 the Raptors traded Vince Carter to which team?
New Jersey Nets
The New Jersey Nets, who sent back Alonzo Mourning, two forwards and two first-round picks. Mourning never reported to Toronto, and Carter's Nets knocked the Raptors out of the 2007 playoffs.
Q 13Which future Hall of Famer did the Raptors draft fourth overall in 2003?
Q 21The Raptors trailed which team 0–2 in the 2019 Eastern Conference Finals before winning four straight?
Milwaukee Bucks
The Milwaukee Bucks, who had finished with the best record in the league. Toronto lost twice in Milwaukee, then won four in a row to reach the NBA Finals for the first time.
Q 22Who did the Raptors beat 4–2 in the 2019 NBA Finals for their first championship?
Golden State Warriors
The Golden State Warriors, two-time defending champions. They lost Kevin Durant to a torn Achilles in Game 5 and Klay Thompson to a knee injury in Game 6, the night Toronto clinched in Oakland.
Q 23Kawhi Leonard left Toronto after one season to sign with which team?
Los Angeles Clippers
Chris Bosh
Chris Bosh, taken one pick after Carmelo Anthony. He made five All-Star teams in Toronto and reached the Hall of Fame in 2021, although blood clots had ended his career at 31.
Q 14Who was the Raptors' 2006 first overall pick, the first European ever taken number one?
Andrea Bargnani
Andrea Bargnani, an Italian forward from Benetton Treviso. He never became an All-Star, but the first-round pick Toronto got for him in 2013 turned into Jakob Pöltl, later part of the trade for Kawhi Leonard.
Q 15Which GM, hired in 2013, built the Raptors team that won the 2019 NBA title?
Masai Ujiri
Masai Ujiri. His first moves were to trade away two of the team's biggest names, which was expected to sink the season; the Raptors won a then-record 48 games instead.
Q 16Lowry arrived from Houston in 2012 after which free agent picked the Lakers over Toronto?
Steve Nash
Steve Nash chose the Lakers in July 2012; days later Toronto sent Houston a future first-round pick for Kyle Lowry, who became a six-time All-Star with the Raptors.
Q 17Before 2018, Vince Carter shared the Raptors' 51-point scoring record with which player?
Terrence Ross
Terrence Ross, who matched Carter's 51 in January 2014 with ten three-pointers, in a game Toronto lost. The record fell on New Year's Day 2018 to a 52-point night in overtime.
Q 18The Raptors were the opponents when which player scored 81 points in a game in January 2006?
Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant. Toronto led the Lakers by 18 points in the third quarter before his 81, then the second-highest total in NBA history behind Wilt Chamberlain's 100, turned the game around.
Q 19Whom did the Raptors trade to San Antonio in July 2018 for Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green?
DeMar DeRozan
DeMar DeRozan, the franchise's all-time leading scorer, went with Jakob Pöltl and a first-round pick. In return Toronto got a star with one year left on his contract, a gamble repaid with the 2019 title.
Q 20Kawhi Leonard's bouncing shot against Philadelphia in 2019 was the first buzzer-beater ever to win which kind of NBA playoff game?
A Game 7
A Game 7. Leonard's jumper from the corner bounced four times on the rim before dropping at the horn, and Toronto won 92–90 to reach the conference finals.
Leonard signed with the Los Angeles Clippers in July 2019, joining Paul George; the fear that he was a one-year rental had hung over the whole championship season.
Q 24Pascal Siakam won which NBA award in 2019, days after the Raptors won the title?
Most Improved Player
Most Improved Player. A reserve the season before, Siakam started 79 games and more than doubled his scoring, from 7.3 points a game to 16.9.
Q 25Fred VanVleet, who went undrafted in 2016 and became an NBA champion in 2019, played college ball where?
Wichita State
Wichita State, where he reached the 2013 Final Four as a freshman reserve. Passed over by all thirty teams on draft night, he signed a four-year, $85 million contract in 2020 and became an All-Star in 2022.
Q 26Where did the Raptors play their 'home' games during the 2020–21 season?
Tampa, Florida
Tampa, Florida. Canada's pandemic border rules shut the Raptors out of Toronto, so they spent the whole season in the arena of hockey's Tampa Bay Lightning and missed the playoffs for the first time in eight years.
Q 27Which Florida State forward, drafted fourth overall in 2021, was the 2022 NBA Rookie of the Year?
Scottie Barnes
Scottie Barnes, who edged Cleveland's Evan Mobley by just 15 voting points. Two years later Toronto traded away its veteran stars, rebuilt around him, and saw him make his first All-Star team.
Q 28Which former Grizzlies assistant replaced Nick Nurse as head coach in June 2023?
Darko Rajaković
Darko Rajaković, a Serbian who had been an assistant in Memphis, took over in June 2023 after Nurse and his staff were fired following a play-in defeat.
Q 29Which forward did the Raptors get from New Orleans in February 2025 for Olynyk, Bruce Brown and a first-round pick?
Brandon Ingram
Brandon Ingram, a former All-Star, who signed a three-year extension within a week of arriving. Nineteen months later he was traded away in the deal that brought Kawhi Leonard back to Toronto.
Q 30Which centre did the Raptors acquire from Memphis at the 2019 trade deadline?
Marc Gasol
Marc Gasol, a former Defensive Player of the Year. He had been in Memphis since 2008, when the Grizzlies got his draft rights in the very trade that sent his older brother Pau to the Lakers.