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From right to left, singers Justin Bieber, Romeo Miller, Trey Songz watch during a BBVA All-Star celebrity basketball game with the Toronto Raptors mascot at the NBA All Star Weekend in Los Angeles, Friday, Feb. 18, 2011.

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By Sam Laird2014-04-19 19:46:16 UTC

The NBA's only Canadian franchise is a little edgier than we thought, eh?

Before the Toronto Raptors and Brooklyn Nets squared off in the first game of their opening-round NBA playoffs series on Saturday afternoon, fans were treated to some championship-caliber trash talk from the most unexpected sources: a Raptors executive and a local Toronto tabloid newspaper.

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Pro sports executives typically toe the company line with maximum discipline, but Raptors general manager Masai Ujiri went off-script in a pre-game speech to fire up fans outside Toronto's Air Canada Centre. As captured by a fan in the Instagram video, below, watch Ujiri bellow "F*ck Brooklyn!" before exiting stage left.

And the crowd goes wild.

Meanwhile, the Toronto Sun's Saturday-morning issue poked some cruel fun at the Nets' aging roster — in particular 36-year-old Paul Pierce and 37-year-old Kevin Garnett — with a headline reading "Raptors vs. Dinosaurs."

The bottom scroll, you'll notice, reads: "Garnett & Pierce are so old the Raptor had to ask his dad about them."

Rob Ford should be proud. The Raptors, however, lost Saturday's game, 94-87.

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