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BROOKLYN - With just over four minutes to go in the third quarter, Amir Johnson sat on the bench, wincing in pain as he watched the game and, in effect, his teams season slip away. That seemed like an appropriate time to get a head start on the Raptors playoff obituary. Their first-half onslaught had evaporated, the 17-point lead was no more and Johnson, like Kyle Lowry, was battling foul trouble and a myriad of ailments. At that point the momentum, if you believe in such things, belonged to the hosting Brooklyn Nets. This upstart Raptors team had been in similar situations throughout the season - fighting for their lives, backs up against the wall - but, tied going into the fourth quarter of a critical Game 4, this would be their biggest and most revealing test yet. They had a new audience, a brighter spotlight, a bigger stage and 12 minutes to prove something that they themselves already knew. "Everybody has something on their body that definitely hurts," said Johnson, who injured his knee in a failed attempt to draw a charge on the Nets Paul Pierce, "but we keep playing, we keep fighting. Its not the time to hold back now. Weve got to keep going." The Raptors held Brooklyn without a field goal for the final six minutes, without a point for the last five and in doing so they showed more character than they had at any point in this series. "Thats just us, man," DeMar DeRozan said after scoring a team-high 24 points in the Raptors scrappy 87-79 win on Sunday, tying their best-of-seven opening round series up at 2-2. "Were definitely resilient, were not going to give up until the games over. Were going to fight through." Just as things were at their most bleak - Lowry had picked up his fifth foul and Johnson, still on the bench, was also saddled with five - the Raptors got serious. Slightly out of character, DeRozan drew a charge, then he took another. Was that a first? "Nah, I dont think so," the all-star guard said with a smirk on his face as Lowry, sitting next to him, chuckled. "I hope its not." Then Lowry, throwing caution to the wind, reached in and poked the ball away from Pierce. Johnson followed suit and in a familiar scene - one that earned him his fifth foul and a sore knee earlier - stepped in to take the charge. Both Lowry and Johnson were one foul away from spending the rest of the game watching from the sidelines, one hit to the knee away from spending the rest of the night on the trainers table. Neither player seemed willing to allow his team to lose. "Theyre fighters," said Jonas Valanciunas. "Theyre soldiers. They go on the court anyway. So its good when you have those types of guys on your team." Everyone is dealing with bumps and bruises to some degree at this point in the season. Who wasnt limping out there tonight, Valanciunas was asked. "Julyan Stone," the young centre said with a smile. But there was Lowry, limping up and down the court between possessions, lying next to the bench to stay loose when he wasnt in the game. He had tweaked his reoccurring right knee injury early in Game 3, on top of all the nicks hes accumulated over a long season, but he gutted it out again. Where would his team be without him? "We would have probably got in a fight if I tried to take him out of the game," coach Dwane Casey joked. "Hes dealing with a lot right now and he came through with flying colours. He fought through foul trouble, a little bit of adversity throughout the game and still came through.” Lowry scored 12 of his 22 points in the second half and once again, with the game on the line, his team resembled their point guard, their leader, their best player. "I am not surprised at all that Kyle was limping around, hes a warrior, hes everything to this team," said Chuck Hayes. "The guy gives it his all, we just feed off of him. Then we tease him about it after, hes going to have probably every ice bag in here on his body." "We dont give up man, were some fighters," Hayes continued. "We play like the underdog, we were the underdog probably all year, including this series. I dont know, we just go out there and play for each other." Go ahead, underestimate them, disrespect them and count them out. They feed off it. If respect is earned in the postseason, perhaps the Raptors are starting to turn heads. "We understand that this is a group thats not going to back down, thats not going to give up," Pierce said after the game. "Theyve earned a lot of peoples respect around the league. Just because you dont have a lot of playoff experience doesnt mean youre not a good team. You can learn on the fly." Theyve done just that, now its a whole new ball game. The Raptors will return to Toronto and their raucous crowd at the Air Canada Centre after reclaiming home-court advantage for what has become a best-of-three set, beginning with Wednesdays Game 5. Have they played their best basketball? "No," Lowry and DeRozan answered in unison, but there is a growing sense of belief in the room coinciding with an ambiance of nervousness that spread throughout Barclays Center as Toronto hit back on Sunday. The Raptors may not be in over their heads after all. "Were on a mission," Casey said. "Were not just here trying to win a game. We want to make sure we stay poised, stay focused on our business. Thats what weve been about all year." Fake Nike Shoes . Head coach Randy Carlyle confirmed the news after the Leafs morning skate on Monday. Kozun was hurt during Friday nights home game against the Red Wings and did not make the return trip to Detroit for Saturdays game. Discount Nike Shoes . 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Striker Dario Mandzukic scored the opener in the 22nd minute but was given a red card nine minutes later for a reckless tackle and left Croatia with 10 men for the remainder of the match.SAN DIEGO (8-6) at SAN FRANCISCO (7-7)Saturday, 8:25 p.m. ET, CBS/NFL NetworkOPENING LINE — 49ers by 2 1/2RECORD VS. SPREAD — San Diego 6-8, San Francisco 4-8-2SERIES RECORD — 49ers lead 7-6LAST MEETING — Chargers beat 49ers 34-7, Dec. 16, 2010LAST WEEK — Chargers lost to Broncos 22-10; 49ers lost to Seahawks 17-7AP PRO32 RANKING — Chargers No. 14, 49ers No. 16CHARGERS OFFENSE — OVERALL (21), RUSH (31), PASS (12).CHARGERS Defence — OVERALL (9), RUSH (13), PASS (9).49ERS OFFENSE — OVERALL (27), RUSH (13), PASS (28).49ERS Defence — OVERALL (3), RUSH (8), PASS (3).STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES — Chargers have three-game winning streak in series after 49ers won six in row. ... Chargers QB Philip Rivers is 48 of 64 for 607 yards — 303.5 per game — in two games vs. Niners with five TDs and no interceptions for 130.1 rating. ... Matchup of two top-10 defences with No. 3 San Francisco and ninth-ranked San Diego. ... Rivers threw for 273 yards and three TDs, all to WR Vincent Jackson, in last meeting. Jackson had five catches for 112 yardds that game.dddddddddddd. ... Chargers sacked Alex Smith six times in that meeting. ... 49ers beat Chargers 21-7 in preseason for first win at new $1.3 billion Levis Stadium. ... Like now-eliminated Niners last week, Chargers must win out and get help to make playoffs. San Diego tied with Kansas City and Buffalo, one game out of final wild-card berth. ... 49ers are 6-1 at home vs. non-conference opponents since 2011. ... WR Anquan Boldin needs 80 yards receiving to become fourth player in franchise history with multiple 1,000-yard receiving seasons and first to do so in first two years with team (1,179 in 2013). ... San Francisco is 6-0 when Frank Gore gets 15 or more rushing attempts. Gore, who sustained concussion last week at Seattle, needs 196 yards rushing over final two games for fourth consecutive 1,000-yard season and eighth in his 10 NFL seasons. ... 49ers missing playoffs for first time under embattled fourth-year coach Jim Harbaugh.___AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and http://twitter.com/AP_NFL ' ' '