DENVER — Kyle Lowry had 30 points and 11 assists, and the Toronto Raptors beat the Denver Nuggets 116-102 on Sunday night.
Lou Williams had 31 points to help the Raptors, the top team in the Eastern Conference, get the season series sweep with Sunday’s win.
The Raptors have won seven of eight.
Ty Lawson led Denver with 28 points and Wilson Chandler had 20 points and 10 rebounds.
Kenneth Faried, who had 26 points and a career-best 25 rebounds in Friday’s win over Minnesota, had 17 points and 19 rebounds for the Nuggets, who have lost three of four.
Toronto, coming off a 12-point win over the Clippers in Los Angeles on Saturday, led by one when Williams hit two free throws and a 3-pointer to give the Raptors a 100-94 lead. After Nate Robinson missed a 3-pointer, Lowry sank two foul shots to push the lead to seven.
The lead grew to 109-98 on a three-point play by Lowry with 3:59 left. Denver never got closer than nine the rest of the way.
Faried’s layup midway through the third quarter gave Denver a 76-75 lead. Toronto went back up by four but a steal and layup and a jumper by Nate Robinson cut the Raptors’ lead to 88-87 heading into the fourth.
The Raptors took the lead late in the first quarter and stretched it to 13 with 2:50 remaining in the second quarter. Denver rallied to get to 56-54 on Faried’s put-back dunk with 37.4 seconds left in the half, but Toronto scored the final four points to take a 60-54 lead into intermission.
TIP-INS
Raptors: Guard Landry Fields missed his fourth straight game because of a concussion. Fields has passed two of the three tests to be able to return, coach Dwane Casey said. That test he takes is no joke. It is very complicated," Casey said. "My understanding is he passed a couple parts of it. But there is another area that he still has to pass. And he has to do it under stress." … Toronto is 13-0 when holding teams under 100 points.
Nuggets: Forward Darrell Arthur played for the first time after sitting three games. He missed the first two because of a strained lower left leg and sat out the third because he hadn’t taken part in a full practice coming off the injury. … Denver is 7-0 when holding teams to less than 40 per cent shooting.
UP NEXT
Raptors: at Portland on Tuesday.
Nuggets: host L.A. Lakers on Tuesday
