The Heat equaled the second-longest winning streak in NBA history, pulling away in the fourth quarter Sunday to beat the Toronto Raptors 108-91 for their 22nd consecutive victory.
Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers scored 81 against the last-place Toronto Raptors in 2006, the NBA's second-highest single-game total.
U.S. neighbors to the north gave a basketball signed by the 2010-11 Toronto Raptors NBA team, courtesy of the Canadian prime minister.
The New York Knicks kicked off their season last night with a 98-93 win over the Toronto Raptors.
Carmelo Anthony scored 37 points, Martin had 19 points and 11 rebounds, and the Knicks clinched a playoff berth with a 99-94 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Friday night.
Coach Mike Woodson was trying to motivate his players ahead of their first-half finale Wednesday against the Toronto Raptors at Madison Square Garden.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper gave Mr Obama a ball signed by the 2011 Toronto Raptors professional basketball team, as well as a "golden-framed 19th Century antique map of North America, surrounded by drawings of North American Indians, beavers".
On Tuesday night he scored 27 points against the Toronto Raptors, tallying the last six points of the game and hitting the deciding 3-pointer.
Anderson matched a Raptors record with 20 points in the third and Toronto made five of nine from 3-point range, but a turnaround, buzzer-beating 3 by Anthony gave the Knicks a 77-71 lead heading into the fourth.
That mark includes a four-game split with the Nets, a 1-1 record with the Boston Celtics and two somewhat surprising losses to the suddenly resurgent Toronto Raptors.
For the struggling Raptors and the Air Canada Centre, the a playoff-like atmosphere was probably as close as Toronto (9-21) was going to get to the postseason.
Short-sleeved Warriors are not a faux pas on par with, say, the entire history of Toronto Raptors uniforms.
Going into Sunday's games, 11 games separated the first-place Knicks (33-20) from the last-place Raptors (23-33) the smallest margin from first to last in the NBA. Toronto and Philadelphia (22-32) are still relative long shots to make the postseason, but they currently sit in ninth and 10th place in the Eastern Conference, just one and two spots, respectively, out of the playoffs.
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