Twenty-five seasons.
Twenty-five people dating back to 1995.
Find the 25 Most Important People in Raptors History and rank them. A fun and easy exercise, right?
Not so much.
Try and put aside any recency bias, because the team’s won for more than half a decade, and remember those who were important parts of the process that got them to this point.
Try to balance the basketball side of the Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment conglomerate with the corporate side and if that means people like Tim Leiweke and Richard Peddie can’t make the cut because they were too MLSE, well, that’s just the way it is.