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Toronto Raptors: Individual grades from win against Cleveland Cavaliers

The season didn’t start pretty for the Toronto Raptors. After nearly an entire quarter, Toronto found themselves trailing to a Cleveland Cavaliers team, that despite making the NBA finals last year, figures to be a fringe NBA playoff team at best.

Then, at the end of the first, Norman Powell, prominently featured on the back milk cartons throughout the season last year, hit a backdoor layup to give the Toronto Raptors the lead. Toronto never trailed again.

Early in the third quarter, it appeared as if the Raptors were going to pull away. After a barrage of three-pointers, the lead ballooned up to 20.