TORONTO -- Toronto basketball fans might have to cancel their trick-or-treating this year. The Toronto Raptors host the Indiana Pacers on Oct. 31 to open the 2012-13 NBA regular season, tipping off the clubs 18th campaign in the league. Torontos first road trip will be a new one -- the club visits the Brooklyn Nets, who relocated from New Jersey this off-season. The Raptors might be road-weary by Christmas, with 19 of their first 31 games away from Air Canada Centre. The teams longest road trip is five games from Dec. 3-10, while Toronto has a six-game home stand Jan. 2-13. Linsanity and the Houston Rockets come to Toronto on Dec. 16, the NBA-finalist Oklahoma City Thunder are in town Jan. 6, while Canadian Steve Nash and the Los Angeles Lakers pass through on Jan. 20. Lebron James, Chris Bosh, and the rest of the Miami Heat -- defending NBA champions -- have two matinee dates in Toronto: Feb. 3 and March 17. The Raptors have 17 back-to-back games this season, three fewer than last season. Seven of those consecutive-night tilts will be back-to-back road games. The Raptors go-to home slot will continue to be Sunday, with 12 games scheduled that day at the ACC. Around the league, fans will get a rematch of Junes NBA finals when the Thunder visit Miami on Christmas Day. The teams clash again in Oklahoma City on Valentines Day. The Raptors will hold their preseason training camp in Halifax at the Canada Games Centre from Oct. 1-6 ahead of the NBA season, the club announced Thursday. The team also plans an intra-squad game at Halifax Metro Centre on Oct. 6. Torontos first-ever game was a pre-season 120-107 victory over Philadelphia played in Halifax on Oct. 14, 1995. But the Raptors havent returned to play in Halifax since 1997. Following the camp, Toronto will move to Montreal for an exhibition game against New York on Oct. 19. 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Booker ripped chairman and managing partner Jeff Vanderbeek on Wednesday in a news conference in front of the arena, a day after arbitrators ruled in favour of the Devils in a long-running dispute with the city over arena parking revenue. Booker indicated that the citys lawyers were considering legal recourse. Among other colourful descriptions, Booker called Vanderbeek a "Grade-A huckster" who came to Newark with "a mouthful of promises and pocketful of lies." One of the unfulfilled promises, Booker said, was that the Devils would build a community centre next to the arena in downtown Newark, the states largest city. Vanderbeek told The Associated Press on Friday that Bookers remarks both surprised and concerned him. "Its concerning that after choosing to take the Prudential Center to court and then have the court ruling that they needed to go to arbitration, and taking it to arbitration, that after that ruling the mayor chooses to not obey the law of the land but seems to be following Booker law," Vanderbeek said. "Our concern is that in a city like Newark where we are trying to set a platform to draw private business in, that businesses are going to think twice when they think about the risk of coming into Newark," he added. A 2007 letter signed by Vanderbeek and Newark Housing Authority head Keith Kinnard said that Devils Renaissance Development, the teams development arm, "shall not be requireed to construct a separate, free-standing community centre; rather, DRD shall only be required to incorporate and conduct community programs in the second sheet of ice that will be constructed as part of the Arena Project.dddddddddddd" Kinnard said Friday that he signed the letter at a time when the arena negotiations were at a critical stage and the city had already sunk about US$100 million into the project. He said the Devils threatened to move to Kansas City if they didnt receive the concessions spelled out in the letter. Booker on Friday echoed Kinnards account and didnt back down from his earlier remarks. Vanderbeek "claimed to be an altruist and that he wanted to help the community, but he went on finding every legal way imaginable to squeeze out of every commitment," Booker said. "This just shows the character of the man, that hes more concerned with squeezing every possible dollar off the table. The rec centre is just one chapter." The Devils havent paid rent to the city since the arena opened in 2007 because of the parking dispute. This weeks arbitration ruling ordered the city to pay $2.7 million per year in parking money to the team. Combined with other payments and fees, the city owes the team about $15 million, or a few hundred thousand dollars more than the Devils owe the city in back rent and other fees. The city contributed $210 million toward building the arena, paid for through a renegotiated lease with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for Newark Liberty International Airport property. The team provided $100 million. The Devils played their first game in the Prudential Center, known as The Rock, in October 2007 after playing at an arena in the nearby Meadowlands since the 1982-83 season. ' ' '