The Raptors crushed a depressed Golden State Warriors by 53 points (130-77) without their star Stephen Curry.
The Warriors, who came to lose by 61 points, skirted the worst defeat in franchise history, suffered in 1972 against the Los Angeles Lakers by 63 points (162-99).
The champions of the NBA in 2015, 2017 and 2018, the Warriors are going through a sports crisis that is accentuated on nights when Stephen Curry cannot take to the court.
After losing 11 of its last 15 games, Steve Kerr's team has fallen to 10th in the Western conference, out of playoff spots.
Their top scorer was Canadian
Andrew Wiggins
with 15 points while the other two regulars in the starting five, Kelly Oubre Jr. and rookie James Wiseman, stayed at nine.
The Raptors, 11th in the East, entered the game in another dismal moment of form after losing 13 of the previous 14 games.
Despite the absence of their leader
Kyle Lowry
, the Raptors offered an offensive recital against the weak Warriors led by Cameroonian power forward Pascal Siakam, with 36 points and 7 rebounds.
Stephen Curry, averaging 29.2 points per game, was booked for a dragging concussion to his tailbone while
Draymond Green
, part of the three-time NBA Warriores champions, was also out with a last-minute sprained finger.
"These things are part of the game," Kerr stressed.
"You have to look at the bench and the next player has to come out. Injuries are not an excuse"
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