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TORONTO — Basketball fans who had not been to the Air Canada Centre since the last regular season ended might have noticed something different as the new season began on Wednesday.

There is a banner celebrating the team’s 2015-16 Atlantic Division title, adorned with the latest iteration of the Raptors logo. The team slipped it up there last April and didn’t bother mentioning it to anyone.

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This is how weird this version of the Raptors, the one led by Masai Ujiri and Dwane Casey and Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan, is — they have made success kind of ho-hum.

It’s hard to understate how unusual that is for this franchise. Through their first 18 seasons in the National Basketball Association, the Raptors won more games than they lost four times. They made the playoffs five times in their history up to that point, won one division title and one playoff series — and that a wee best-of-five, before the NBA went to the best-of-seven format in all rounds. They had players who refused to accept a trade to the Toronto hinterlands, players who complained about the cold, about the taxes, about the lack of good cable channels in Canada. Mostly they had players who left as soon as they could secure a rich contract elsewhere. It was tough to blame them, really. The Grizzlies had long ago fled Vancouver for Memphis and as recently as six seasons ago, a full dozen years into the NBA in Canada experiment, the Raptors were an utter train wreck: 22 wins in 82 games, the 10th time in 16 seasons that the franchise hadn’t managed at least 40 wins.