Vince Carter heard boos all afternoon. They couldn't ruin his return to Toronto for the playoffs.

"I didn't come here to worry about the crowd and the response, I came here to win a basketball game," Carter said.

Richard Jefferson and Jason Kidd made sure the Nets did just that.

Jefferson scored 28 points, Kidd nearly had a triple-double, and the Nets withstood a fourth-quarter rally to beat the Raptors 96-91 on Saturday in Game 1 of their first-round series.