SAN ANTONIO (AP) Kawhi Leonard had a career-high 33 points, LaMarcus Aldridge had 31 points and 15 rebounds and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Toronto Raptors 102-95 Saturday night for their franchise-record 64th victory.
San Antonio never trailed and topped its 63-win season in 2005-06. The Spurs also extended their NBA-record home winning streak to start the season to 39 games.
Toronto sat Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan for rest.
The Spurs closed it out at the free-throw line, capturing their 48th straight home victory dating to March 2015.
Patrick Patterson's intense effort helped the Raptors outscore the Spurs 52-36 in the paint.
Norman Powell had 17 points, Jonas Valanciunas and Cory Joseph added 16 points and Patterson had 12 points for the Raptors.
PISTONS 94, BULLS 90
CHICAGO (AP) - Reggie Jackson scored 22 points, Tobias Harris added 21 and Detroit overcame Jimmy Butler's first career triple-double to beat Chicago.
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 is a half-game ahead of Indiana for seventh in the Eastern Conference and 2 1/2 games up on ninth-place Chicago.
TRAIL BLAZERS 110, HEAT 93
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - C.J. McCollum had 24 points and made all six of his 3-point attempts to help Portland beat Miami for its seventh straight home win.
Despite the loss, the Heat still clinched a playoff spot after the Chicago Bulls fell to Detroit earlier in the evening. Miami came into the game tied for the third seed in the East but dropped to sixth with the loss.
The Blazers made 10 3-pointers to break a franchise record for 3-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.
PACERS 115, 76ERS 102
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - C.J. Miles scored 25 points, including a go-ahead 3-pointer with 3:39 left, and Indiana rallied to beat short-handed Philadelphia.
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), which needs one victory in its remaining five games to avoid matching the 1972-73 Sixers for the worst full-season record in NBA history.
Jerami Grant had 20 points and nine rebounds for Philadelphia, which has lost 13 straight and 25 of 26. Carl Landry scored 19 points.
KINGS 115, NUGGETS 106
DENVER (AP) - Rudy Gay had 25 points and nine rebounds, Seth Curry scored 17 points and Sacramento beat Denver to sweep the 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, which played without DeMarcus Cousins and Rajon Rondo.
The Kings left Cousins and Rondo - their two best players - in Sacramento for the one-game trip. Cousins averaged 38 points, 14.5 rebounds and three blocks in two wins over the Nuggets this season.
Gary Harris led Denver with 19 points and Emmanuel Mudiay and Joffrey Lauvergne had 15 apiece.
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