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Friday nights contest against the Cleveland Cavaliers in Toronto wont be just another game on the 82-game schedule for the Toronto Raptors. Wholesale NHL Jerseys China .Toronto (1-0) had its season cut short last spring by the Cavaliers, who defeated the Raptors in six games of the Eastern Conference finals to advance to the NBA Finals.Toronto fell behind 2-0, losing both games in Cleveland last May, but rebounded to tie the series 2-2 with a pair of wins at Air Canada Centre. The Cavs went on to win Games 5 and 6 to advance to the Finals.Its never just another game, said Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan. Every game we have, we look at it as a new opportunity to gain something. Come Friday, its another opportunity against the team we played against in the Eastern Conference finals.DeRozan led the way with a game-high 40 points and four rebounds in the Raptors season-opening 109-91 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday night.Toronto won the regular-season series against Cleveland last year, taking three of four meetings.Its going to be a battle, DeRozan said. Its a challenge were looking forward to: playing against the champs, playing against the team we took to six games in the Eastern Conference finals, its going to be great. Its going to be great in here. Its another challenge for us.Jonas Valanciunas added 32 points and 11 rebounds as he and DeRozan became the first teammates in NBA history with a 40-point game and a 30-point game in a season opener.Its a good opportunity for us to go against the best team, I think in my mind, in the league, said Raptors coach Dwane Casey. Theyve got every weapon that you could look for, the best player in the world, one of the best rosters put together in the world so its a good test for us.Id rather have it now, early in the season, lets us know where we are.Cavs guards Iman Shumpert and Kay Felder, who both underwent concussion protocol, are expected to be available for Fridays game against the Raptors.Cleveland (1-0) opened the season with a 117-88 thumping of the New York Knicks on Tuesday night -- the same evening they received their 2016 NBA championship rings and raised the banner to the rafters of Quicken Loans Arena.Kyrie Irving led the way with 29 points and four assists in the win, while LeBron James chipped in 19 points, 14 assists and 11 rebounds for his 43rd career triple-double.Its the second game of the season, we know we played these guys in the Eastern Conference finals. They have a good team; they beat us twice and coach Caseys a great coach so we know were going to have our hands full (on Friday), Cleveland coach Tyronn Lue said. We expect that. They have a great crowd, great atmosphere, but well be prepared for it.The Cavs return home following Friday nights contest for a three-game home stand beginning with the Orlando Magic on Saturday. Toronto, meanwhile, concludes its three-game home stand on Monday when it plays host to the Denver Nuggets. Fake NHL Jerseys . -- Quarterback Will Finch threw for 252 yards and three touchdowns, and Yannick Harou rushed in two scores as the No. Wholesale NHL Jerseys . Halladay signed a one-day contract with the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday that allowed the veteran right-hander to retire as a member of team with which he broke into the majors and spent the bulk of his distinguished 16-year career. https://www.chinanhljerseys.us/ . Supported by three-run homers from Jayson Werth and Wilson Ramos, the young right-hander went seven strong innings in the Washington Nationals 8-4 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night. ATLANTA -- Manager Dusty Baker had never seen the Washington Nationals struggle so badly in the field.We played a sloppy game, he said. Wed have been lucky to win that game with five errors.Shawn Kelley gave up Jace Petersons tiebreaking homer in the 10th inning and the Atlanta Braves scored four runs off Washington miscues in the Nationals 7-6 loss on Sunday.The five errors were the most by Washington in a single game since June 15, 2011, also in Atlanta.Rain delayed the game 1 hour, 4 minutes in the bottom of the eighth.Kelley (1-2) hung his head and walked toward the dugout as soon as Peterson made contact with his seventh homer. Kelley gave up one hit and one run in two-thirds of an inning.Jose Ramirez (1-0) faced four batters in the 10th to earn the win.Nick Markakis cut the lead to 4-2 in the third with a two-run double and took third on shortstop Danny Espinosas errant relay throw. Markakis made it 4-3 when center fielder Trea Turner caught a popup and was charged with a throwing error after dropping the ball as he transferred it to his right hand.Anthony Recker scored from third in the sixth to cut the lead to 6-4 when second baseman Daniel Murphy threw errantly to first.In the eighth, Matt Kemps 25th homer cut the lead to 6-5. Reliever Yusmeiro Petit had a throwing miscue that advanced Jeff Francoeur to third. Francoeur made it 6-6 on a double-play grounder.The Nationals went ahead 4-0 in third on Murphys RBI forceout and Bryce Harpers 22nd homer, a three-run shot deep into the right-field seats. Chris Heisey put Washington up 6-3 in the sixth with his eighth homer, a two-run shot.Peterson, making his first career start in center field, slammed his face and shoulder into the center-field wall after making a twisting catch of Heiseys liner to end the third. NHL Jerseys China. He fell to the warning track, stayed down for a couple of minutes and was escorted by a trainer to the dugout.I got the wind knocked out of me, Peterson said. I couldnt breathe. That was really it.Kelley hung a slider that Peterson hit into the right-field seats.I was totally confident walking him when (the count) got to 3-2, so I wasnt going to give him anything good to hit, Kelley said. But I left slider right there in the middle of the plate.Washington starter Gio Gonzalez allowed six hits, three walks and four runs -- three earned -- in 5 2/3 innings. He struck out eight.Braves starter Joel De La Cruz allowed seven hits, six runs, two walks and four strikeouts in his 5 2/3 innings.Washington is 25-7 against Atlanta since the start of 2015. The Braves are 19-44 at home. They had lost seven straight overall.THAT HURTSBraves 1B Freddie Freeman had a cortisone shot in the middle finger of his right hand after Saturdays game and didnt play. The finger has been bothering him since spring training. Freeman had cortisone shot during the All-Star break, too, and said hell try to be in the lineup Monday at Arizona. ... Espinosa was hit by a pitch to load the bases in the third. Hes the Nationals career leader in getting hit by a pitch and has been hit 19 times this year, second-most in the NL.UP NEXTNationals: RHP Stephen Strasburg (15-4) is 1-0 with a 2.25 ERA in two career starts against Baltimore.Braves: RHP Mike Foltynewicz (6-5) is 0-1 with a 6.23 ERA in three career starts against Arizona. ' ' '