Are you following the National Basketball Association playoffs? Only four teams are still playing for the NBA championship. One of them is the Toronto Raptors. The Raptors are the only NBA team in Canada. Of the 15 players on the team, six were not born in the United States. The team has one Canadian, two Brazilians, an Argentine, a Lithuanian and a player from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Its general manager is Masai Ujiri, a Nigerian. His job is to choose the players and negotiate their deals to play for the team. The Raptors entered the NBA as an expansion team in 1995. This is their 21st season. In the early years, the Raptors normally stopped playing at the end of the NBA’s 82-game regular season. But this is the eighth time the team has earned the right to compete in the playoffs. This is the first time the Raptors have reached the Eastern Conference Finals.
Title: City of Immigrants Sees Itself in NBA’s Toronto Raptors
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1081/nba_audio.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='City of Immigrants Sees Itself in NBAs Toronto Raptors' data-article-id='1553'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='5479'>Are you following the National Basketball Association playoffs?</span> <span data-start-time='5479' data-end-time='10292'>Only four teams are still playing for the NBA championship.</span> <span data-start-time='10292' data-end-time='14354'>One of them is the Toronto Raptors.</span> <span data-start-time='14354' data-end-time='19708'>The Raptors are the only NBA team in Canada.</span> <span data-start-time='19708' data-end-time='27271'>Of the 15 players on the team, six were not born in the United States.</span> <span data-start-time='27271' data-end-time='40604'>The team has one Canadian, two Brazilians, an Argentine, a Lithuanian and a player from the Democratic Republic of Congo.</span> <span data-start-time='40604' data-end-time='47000'>Its general manager is Masai Ujiri, a Nigerian.</span> <span data-start-time='47000' data-end-time='53917'>His job is to choose the players and negotiate their deals to play for the team.</span> <span data-start-time='53917' data-end-time='60521'>The Raptors entered the NBA as an expansion team in 1995.</span> <span data-start-time='60521' data-end-time='63979'>This is their 21st season.</span> <span data-start-time='63979' data-end-time='73750'>In the early years, the Raptors normally stopped playing at the end of the NBA’s 82-game regular season.</span> <span data-start-time='73750' data-end-time='81417'>But this is the eighth time the team has earned the right to compete in the playoffs.</span> <span data-start-time='81417' data-end-time='88146'>This is the first time the Raptors have reached the Eastern Conference Finals.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1081/imm_img.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=6235 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