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.