Chris Bosh and a Brief Resurgence (2006-2013)

New general manager Bryan Colangelo started his Raptors residency with a blast, getting the top pick in the 2006 NBA Draft (selecting Andrea Bargnani), and he promptly got the chance to work on reshaping the roster. The outcome was one of the NBA's greatest surprise teams of the 2006– 07 season, as the Raptors hopped from just 27 wins in the earlier year to 47 wins and their first playoff appearance in five seasons. Amusingly, they were crushed in the post-season by none other than Vince Carter and his new team, the New Jersey Nets, yet with crisp ability and new administration, things appeared to gaze upward again for the Raptors. With Chris Bosh proceeding to lead the path for Toronto, the Raptors made the playoffs again in the 2007– 08 season, however they were not able to make it past the first round, losing to Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic.

In the wake of two straight first-round playoff losses, Colangelo kept on rearranging the deck around Bosh and Bargnani. The club attempted an assortment of other large name NBA veterans — from Jermaine O'Neal to Hedo Türkoğlu to Rudy Gay — however none worked, and Bargnani kept on disappoint. The Raptors completed under .500 the following five seasons. Bosh in the end left before the 2010– 11 season to join LeBron James and Dwyane Wade in Miami, where he was a key piece of future title teams with the Heat.

Like Babcock before him, Colangelo was in the end terminated and, amid the 2013 off-season, was supplanted by his previous assistant, Masai Ujiri, who ended up general manager and president.