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Lowry, DeRozan combine to fire Raptors past Trail Blazers
GUARDS Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan combined for 59 points as the Toronto Raptors beat the Portland Trail Blazers 110-103 on Thursday.
Lowry scored 30 points with eight assists while DeRozan added 29 points for the Raptors (34-16), who won for the 13th time in their last 14 outings.
Center Jonas Valanciunas chipped in 14 points and 11 rebounds for Toronto, which won for only the second time in the last 13 trips to Portland and first since December 2006.
Guard Damian Lillard collected 27 points and 11 assists while guard CJ McCollum had 21 points for the Trail Blazers (24-27), who lost for only the third time in 12 games.
Guard Allen Crabbe added 17 points off the Portland bench.
DeRozan and Lowry combined for 25 points to stake Toronto to a 59-51 lead at halftime.
DeRozan scored 14 points and Lowry 11 in the first half while Valanciunas had 10 points and seven rebounds.
Toronto increased its lead to 66-54 but the Blazers rallied to get within four points before the Raptors took an 82-75 advantage into the final period.
Portland trimmed the margin to 84-81 but Lowry scored eight points in a 10-0 Toronto run to hike the lead to 94-81 with 6:52 remaining. The Blazers cut the difference to 101-93 after a Lillard trey with 3:12 to play.
His jumper got them to within 106-99 with 1:19 to go, and a pair of foul shots by Crabbe made it a five-point game with 55.3 seconds left.
Houston handed Phoenix a sixth successive defeat, with Corey Brewer’s 24 points offsetting a quiet night by James Harden and steering the Rockets to a 111-105 victory.
Los Angeles’ Kobe Bryant scored 27 points, hitting three pivotal 3-pointers in the last six-plus minutes, to lead the Lakers to a 99-95 win at the New Orleans Pelicans.
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