TORONTO -- Before Monday's Game 2 between the Toronto Raptors and Indiana Pacers, purple shirts were placed on all 19,800 seats at the Air Canada Centre. Each shirt featured an updated version of the Toronto Raptors' first logo: a cartoonish dinosaur, jersey on, ball in claw. Toronto forward Bruno Caboclo offered his opinion on the shirts after his pregame workout. "Old Raptors," Caboclo said. "Why?" It was a fair question, as the Raptors had spent the previous two days trying to distance themselves from their history. In 21 seasons, the franchise has advanced to the second round once -- when Caboclo was five years old. For the third consecutive year, Toronto opened the postseason by...
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