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Vince Carter watches as his number is raised to the rafters during a halftime ceremony on Saturday night at Scotiabank Arena.

Steve Russell Toronto Star

It’s not an overly gigantic piece of heavy cloth — about five feet wide and 15.5 feet long — but it stands as a colossus astride a franchise, a city, a country, a sport.

Doug Smith is a sports reporter based in Toronto. Follow him onTwitter: @smithraps.

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