But okay absurdly if you wanted to play the metaphor out. If you had a battle royale of the various team nicknames in combat with each other, the Raptors would advance from the early rounds, sure, but they could surely be taken out by a fusillade of Rockets, maybe even Cavaliers if the cavalry were modern Armored Cav, or Air Cav in copters, or at least had long range guns on horseback. Recall that the velociraptor was not much bigger than a chicken, Hawks might eat them, Pacers on a NASCAR track would run 'em over by the dozens, hell a band of enraged and drunken Celtics would probably play a fun game of shinty with the little scaly critters. Shoot St Patrick chased the snakes out of Ireland, and you never hear of any significant dino discoveries on the emerald isle.
Whereas Wizards, as dumb as the nickname is, I don't see them getting defeated by pretty much anybody. Sorcerers, conjurers, necromancers, phantsmalists, all bending reality and perception to their will, defying physics and transmogrifying incoming artillery to popcorn and daffodils, what the hell you gonna do?
The only thing I suppose that would ultimately defeat them, quite possibly, would be the Suns, because well okay on their home court you'd be incinerated, and if you were home, well a cabal of those wizards might pool their magics to snuff a huge helium furnace roaring in its corner of the firmament, but well, then what? A pyrrhic victory since you'd only claim dominion over a void in space, and even a dire undead necromancer would have little to gloat over at that point.
But honestly. You want to really go down the route of whose mascot is stupider? You guys follow a big purple dinosaur:
