The Toronto Raptors will try to finish their five-game western road trip with a winning record when they visit the Los Angeles Clippers in a west coast affair Friday night at the Staples Centre. Detroit Tigers Gear . Catch all the action on TSN starting at 10:30pm et/7:30pm pt. Toronto won at Denver and Utah, but lost in Portland and Sacramento. The Kings loss was the most recent game for the Raptors. Kyle Lowry had 21 points, seven rebounds and eight assists, DeMar DeRozan poured in 18 points and Jonas Valanciunas added 12 points and 11 rebounds for the Raptors, losers in two of their last three games. "I didnt think our disposition at the beginning of the game was in fighting mode or hungry mode. We havent done anything, Ill keep repeating this, we havent done anything in this league yet," Raptors head coach Dwane Casey said. The Raptors still lead the Atlantic Division by 3 1/2 games over the Brooklyn Nets and return to Canada for two games before the All-Star break when DeRozan will head to New Orleans. The Los Angeles Clippers will try to put the brakes on a two-game losing streak Friday night against the Toronto Raptors at the Staples Center. The Clippers, who have dropped three of four, lost at Denver on Monday, then fell at home to the two-time defending NBA champion Miami Heat on Wednesday, 116-112. Miami built a 19-point lead, but the Clips whittled it down to two with 1:04 left in the game. Ray Allen buried a 3-pointer and LA never got within four the rest of the way. "Im happy with the fight we had, that says a lot about our team. We just had too many mistakes. I cant fault the effort from our guys," Clippers head coach Doc Rivers said. Blake Griffin tallied a season-high 43 points to go with 13 boards, while Jamal Crawford netted 31 points for Los Angeles. DeAndre Jordan finished with 16 points and 16 rebounds, followed by 12 from Matt Barnes. The Heat shot 69.6 percent (16-of-23) in the opening frame and set a first- quarter team record with 15 assists on their 16 made field goals. They finished shooting 52.6 percent from the field and 41.9 percent from long range. Miami forced L.A. into 20 turnovers. The Clippers beat the Raptors in the great white north on Jan. 25 and have taken four of the last five meetings, including three consecutive victories in Los Angeles. Detroit Tigers Store . Cellino was ordered by a judge to pay a 600,000 euro ($800,000) fine for evading import taxes on a yacht he purchased in the United States and brought to Italy, the ANSA news agency reported. Wholesale Tigers Jerseys . -- The Los Angeles Clippers chose not to speak publicly about owner Donald Sterling before they faced the Golden State Warriors for Game 4 of their first-round series Sunday. https://www.cheaptigers.com/ . - IndyCar racing officials expressed confidence on Monday that the NOLA Motorsports Park will be able to complete more $4.VAL DISERE, France - Lindsey Vonns days of competing in all five ski disciplines may be behind her, since the four-time overall World Cup champion is seriously considering giving up slalom in her comeback from a career-threatening knee injury.The 30-year-old American racer thinks she is still somewhat off the pace in speed events, despite clinching her first victory in nearly two years in a downhill at Lake Louise, Canada, on Dec. 7.The 2010 Olympic downhill champion thinks ditching slalom may help her cause to become the No. 1 speed racer again.I definitely plan on doing (giant slalom), but I want to focus on the speed races right now, Vonn said on Thursday ahead of a downhill and super-G in the French resort of Val dIsere. I dont know if Ill do slalom again. Its difficult starting in the back. But well see. I havent skied slalom since my injuries, so I dont know how it feels yet.Vonns previous World Cup victory was in GS on Jan. 26, 2013, in Maribor, Slovenia, and she has raced only seven races since.Less than two months after that win, she injured her right knee in a heavy fall at the world championships.Desperate to get back in time for the Sochi Games, she partially tore one of the reconstructed ligaments in a training crash in Copper Mountain, Colorado.Again, she attempted to grind things out, only to sprain her MCL racing downhill in Val dIsere last December, and had a second surgery a month later.Im in a much different position this year than I was last year, Vonn said. I have a healthy knee finally. So Im looking forward to the races this weekend and hopefully the conditions will be good.It has been a big month.Racing downhilll for the first time since hurting her knee again in Val dIsere, Vonn finished eighth at Lake Louise and grabbed a second-place finish in super-G to go with her downhill triumph. Tigers Jerseys China. I wasnt expecting to be as fast as I was in Lake Louise. The first race, being eighth place was about what I expected, she said. But I learned a lot from the first race and tried to improve, and both the second downhill and the super-G were good performances.Still, she thinks she can do much better.Im trying to be more comfortable with the speed and to be more aggressive. Downhill is a little bit farther along than super-G, and I definitely need more training. This weekend, hopefully Ill have good results like I did in Lake Louise. But its a process, coming back from two years of injury takes a bit of time.Vonn last raced slalom at Maribor, the day after her GS win, and the last time she scored points was when finishing eighth at Schladming, Austria, in March 2012.Although she did not finish her three slalom races before Schladming, she had previously shown good form in the discipline: Winning two races and securing three other podium finishes over a calendar year from November 2008-2009.Her reluctance to race slalom again is good news for World Cup leader Tina Maze.The 2013 overall champion competes in all five events, and the Slovenian heads into Val dIsere in superb form after winning a GS and placing second in slalom at the Swedish resort of Are last weekend.Its fun to change disciplines and try to be in front in each, Maze said.She leads overall with 560 points from Austrias Anna Fenninger on 303, while Vonn is eighth with 212. ' ' '