Brooklyn Nets will face the Toronto Raptors Watch FREE NBA PLAYOFFS Live Streaming Online From Air Canada Centre Saturday at 12:30 PM ET.

This will be the opening game of the NBA Playoffs for 2014.

The Raptors won the Atlantic Division and set a franchise record with 48 wins. They've still been labeled the weakest of the top four playoff teams in the Eastern Conference.

The Nets may think so. Brooklyn dropped four of its last five games, with coach Jason Kidd resting his regulars in a 29-point loss to Cleveland on the final night of the season, as the Nets slid from fifth to sixth in the East, earning a first-round meeting with the Raptors and avoiding fourth-seeded Chicago.

"I like right where we are. A good place," Kidd said after the seeding was confirmed.

The Nets may be happy, but the third-seeded Raptors aren't too pleased at the portrayal.

"It would tick me off if that was the case," Toronto coach Dwane Casey said Thursday when asked for his opinion on Brooklyn's alleged strategy of tanking. "If they did, sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for."

Raptors general manager Masai Ujiri was also feisty, saying he and his team "haven't lost one second of sleep worrying about the Brooklyn Nets."

"They can do whatever they want," Ujiri said Thursday. "We'll be right here."

Toronto (48-34) and Brooklyn (44-38) split four meetings during the regular season, with each team winning once on the opponent's court.

Kidd insisted health, not seeding, was the motivation for his lineup choices late in the season, and Brooklyn forward Paul Pierce played down the topic of tanking and hurt feelings after the Nets practiced Friday.

"If we angered them or whatever, that's for them to figure out," Pierce said. "Everybody's going to try and use something for bulletin board motivation. To me, the motivation is a championship."

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