Hooped Up

Bryan Colangelo is not about to take red out of the Raptors’ colour scheme.

In fact, the Raptors president/general manager does not regret his organization’s decision to hand out red shirts to fans before a playoff game in which the opposing team decided to wear red uniforms.

Colangelo stood behind the “Let’s Go Red, Let’s Go Raptors” promotion, which seemed to backfire on Saturday when the New Jersey Nets pulled a little trick on Toronto by donning red uniforms in a 96-91 win in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference quarter-finals at the Air Canada Centre.

“Our colour is red, I don’t think the colour of the shirts being worn out there has any (impact) on the outcome,” Colangelo said before Game 2 on Tuesday night. “What I saw was a crowd that was excited and energizing following their team’s colours or mantra to paint it red so to speak.”

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