The '90s Basketball Show with guest John Lashway - a podcast by TSN 1260 Edmonton

Host Brian Swane is joined by John Lashway to look back at the 1995 NBA Draft in Toronto and the beginning of the Raptors.

Episode Highlights //

2:00 – John's start in Portland as being the youngest Blazers communications manager to the next 25 years in Toronto
4:05 – Joining the Toronto Raptors
5:50 – Why the Toronto Raptors succeeded while the Vancouver Grizzlies did not
7:10 – The Raptors' first years, struggles, and getting the city to buy in
10:20 – The NBA 1995 draft hosted in Toronto
13:10 – Damon Stoudamire draft pick, him getting booed, and "marketing" Stoudamire to the city thereafter
17:25 – The Raptors' second pick, Jimmy King
19:14 – How the Toronto came out to the world that night and what John's last 25 years have been like


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