Complex sentence: Like most expansion teams, the Raptors struggled in their early years, but after the acquisition of Vince Carter through a draft day trade in 1998, the team set league attendance records and made the NBA Playoffs in 2000,2001, and 2002.
Split into simpler sentences: Like most expansion teams, the Raptors struggled in their early years. But after the acquisition of Vince Carter through a draft day trade in 1998, the team set league attendance records and made the NBA Playoffs in 2000,2001, and 2002.