Kawhi Leonard on Saturday night had a career-high 33 points, while LaMarcus Aldrige had 31 points and 15 rebounds as the San Antonio Spurs beat the Toronto Raptors 102-95 for their franchise-record 64th victory.
San Antonio never trailed and topped their 63-win season in 2005-2006. The Spurs also extended their NBA-record home winning streak to start a season to 39 games.
The Spurs closed it out at the free-throw line, capturing their 48th straight home victory dating to March last year.
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Norman Powell had 17 points, Jonas Valanciunas and Cory Joseph added 16 points and Patrick Patterson had 12 points for the Raptors.
In Portland, C.J. McCollum had 24 points and made all six of his three-point attempts to help the Trail Blazers beat Miami 110-93 for their seventh straight home win.
Despite the loss, the Heat still clinched a playoff spot after the Chicago Bulls lost to Detroit earlier in the evening. However, having come into the game tied for the third seed in the East, Miami dropped to sixth with the loss.
The Blazers made 10 three-pointers to break a franchise record for three-pointers in a season with 808. They are in sixth place in the Western Conference and have not clinched a playoff spot yet.
Damian Lillard did not play in the fourth quarter and finished with 18 points for the Blazers. Gerald Henderson came off the bench to score 17 points.
Hassan Whiteside led the Heat with 21 points and 13 assists.
In Chicago, Reggie Jackson scored 22 points and Tobias Harris added 21 as Detroit overcame Jimmy Butler’s first career triple-double to beat the Bulls 94-90.
Marcus Morris had 16 points and Andre Drummond had 11 points and 11 rebounds for the Pistons, who remain on track for a playoff spot.
Butler had 28 points and career highs of 17 rebounds and 12 assists. Pau Gasol had 16 points and 14 rebounds.
Detroit are a half-game ahead of Indiana for seventh in the Eastern Conference and two-and-a-half games up on ninth-place Chicago.
C.J. Miles scored 25 points, including a go-ahead three-pointer with 3 minutes, 39 seconds left as Indiana rallied to beat short-handed Philadelphia 115-102.
Paul George added 20 points, eight rebounds and seven assists for Indiana, the eighth seed in the NBA’s Eastern Conference. Rodney Stuckey scored 17 points.
Isaiah Canaan had 24 points for Philadelphia (9-68), who need one victory in their remaining five games to avoid matching the 1972-1973 Sixers for the worst full-season record in NBA history.
Rudy Gay had 25 points and nine rebounds and Seth Curry scored 17 points to help Sacramento beat Denver 115-106 in a sweep of their three-game season series.
Darren Collison had 14 points and eight assists and Willie Cauley-Stein and Ben McLemore scored 14 points each for Sacramento, who played without DeMarcus Cousins and Rajon Rondo.
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