DeMar DeRozan had 25 points, Kyle Lowry added 23 points and nine assists, and the Raptors beat the Brooklyn Nets, 104-99, on Tuesday night in Toronto.
Brook Lopez had 35 points, 1 shy of his season high, for the Nets, who lost the season series to the Raptors for the first time since 2009-10.
The Raptors rallied from a 16-point halftime deficit to get back on track at home after their franchise-record, 12-game home win streak ended Sunday against Houston.
Toronto’s 58-42 halftime hole equaled its biggest of the season, done in a loss at Golden State in November.
The Raptors got within 2 courtesy of a 22-9 run over the final 5:55 of the third quarter and finally jumped in front on Patrick Patterson’s 3-pointer to open the fourth.
Spurs 116, Timberwolves 91 — LaMarcus Aldridge had 29 points and seven rebounds to help San Antonio bounce back from a rare loss with a win in Minneapolis.
Kawhi Leonard scored 15 points and the Spurs (54-10) led by as many as 26 points in a game they played without Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili, and coach Gregg Popovich.
David West scored 18 points as the Spurs shot 55.3 percent and only turned the ball over nine times.
Andrew Wiggins had 23 points and eight rebounds for the Timberwolves. Karl-Anthony Towns had 19 points and nine boards, and Zach LaVine scored 15 points.
The Spurs haven’t dealt with much losing this season, and they responded to their 10th defeat of the season with a workman-like dismantling of the Timberwolves defense. Even with their three mainstays out of the lineup and their peerless coach at home tending to a family issue, they didn’t miss a beat.
‘‘The machine is a well-oiled machine,’’ assistant Ettore Messina, who has filled in for Popovich the last two games, said before the game. ‘‘It goes on. You try to sit at the wheel and steer and try not to mess it up. Keep it straight.’’
The Spurs shot a season-low 35 percent overall and 14 percent from 3-point range against Indiana on Monday night. They were much better against Minnesota’s young and porous defense. Aldridge got whatever he wanted, peppering the Wolves with midrange jumpers and throwing down an emphatic dunk on Towns to get the Spurs going in the second quarter.
San Antonio closed the half with a 9-0 run, then just leaned on the young Wolves in the third to break it open.
Nuggets 110, Knicks 94 — Kenneth Faried had 24 points and 10 rebounds to help Denver beat New York for the eighth straight time at Pepsi Center.
Nikola Jokic scored eight of his 20 points in the fourth quarter as the Nuggets had six players in double figures.
Carmelo Anthony finished with 30 points against his former team. He’s now 0-3 when playing at his old stomping grounds since being traded to New York in February 2011.
Kristaps Porzingis was limited to 6 points in his return after missing a game with a bruised left leg.
The Knicks were dealt a blow before the game when forward Lance Thomas hurt his left knee in warm-ups.
Hawks 91, Jazz 84 — Jeff Teague scored 24 points to lead Atlanta in Salt Lake City.
Teague added six assists, while Paul Millsap finished with 18 points and nine rebounds.
Gordon Hayward led the Jazz with 22 points and Derrick Favors chipped in 16.
The Hawks held the Jazz to just 15 points in the third quarter, a season-low for the period. Tim Hardaway Jr. scored 6 straight to close the quarter and give the Hawks a 66-57 lead.
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Stephen Curry scored 41 points and became the first player in NBA history to make 300 3-pointers in a season, and the Golden State Warriors set another record in a season full of them by holding off the Magic, 119-113, Monday night for their 45th straight home win.
‘‘To have protected our home court 45 straight games in the regular season, it hasn’t been done in history, so that’s a pretty special accomplishment,’’ Curry said. ‘‘That win record is still in reach.’’
Curry didn’t match his 51-point performance against the Magic on Feb. 25 in which he hit 10 of 15 3-pointers, but shot 7 for 13 from long range and also pulled down 13 rebounds. He has 301 3s with 20 games to go.
Golden State surpassed the 1995-96 Bulls’ 44 straight regular-season home victories and improved to 27-0 at Oracle Arena this season.
Klay Thompson added 27 points for the Warriors (56-6), who overcame a season-high 24 turnovers to bounce back from an ugly 112-95 road loss to the Lakers on Sunday that snapped a seven-game winning streak.
Coach Steve Kerr said the ‘‘46 turnovers in the last 36 hours, inexcusable. . . . If we don’t get that cleaned up then we’re in big trouble.’’
‘‘What we have to get back to is simple, simple, simple,’’ he said. ‘‘The simple leads to the spectacular.’’
The Warriors are still chasing the Bulls’ record 72-win season. Golden State’s home winning streak includes the final 18 games of last season before the franchise’s run to its first championship in 40 years. The Warriors haven’t lost a regular-season game at Oracle Arena since falling to the Bulls in overtime on Jan. 27, 2015.
Draymond Green told the fans afterward: ‘‘45 straight home wins is incredible. Without you all, this would not be possible.’’
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Chris Paul scored 18 of his 27 points when Los Angeles took control in the third quarter, DeAndre Jordan had 23 points and 20 rebounds, and the Clippers blitzed the Mavericks in the second half of a 109-90 victory Monday in Dallas.
Limited to 4 points and five shots because of foul trouble in the first half, Paul outscored the Mavericks by himself in the third while going 8 of 9 from the field.
He punctuated the dominant stretch with a leaning one-handed shot in the lane before the buzzer for a 33-16 advantage in the quarter for the Clippers, who trailed by two at halftime.
Jordan had at least 20 points and 20 rebounds for the first time this season and the fifth time in his career.
Dirk Nowitzki scored 22 points to lead the Mavericks, who missed 17 consecutive 3-pointers and shot 35 percent in the second half while matching a season high with their third straight loss.
