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DeRozan scores 21 in Raptors’ win

- By Ian Harrison Associated Press

Toronto’s DeMar DeRozan (10) drives to the net against Sacramento guard Garrett Temple (17).

TORONTO — DeMar DeRozan scored 21 points, Jonas Valanciuna­s had 13 points and a season-high 16 rebounds and the Toronto Raptors won their ninth straight home game Sunday, beating the Sacramento Kings 108-93.

Kyle Lowry scored 16 points and Norman Powell had 14 for the Raptors, who are an NBA-best 11-1 at home.

Toronto won for the ninth time in its past 10 and improved to 11-4 against Western Conference opponents.

Bogdan Bogdanovic and Garrett Temple each scored 18 points and George Hill had 16 for the Kings, who are 4-13 away from home, tied with Atlanta for the most road losses in the league.

The Raptors, who snapped an eight-game losing streak in Sacramento with a 102-87 road win last Sunday, swept the Kings for the first time since 2014-15.

Sacramento, which lost for the fifth time in seven games, was without leading scorer and rebounder Zach Randolph (rest) and guard De’Aaron Fox, who sat for the first time this season because of a bruised right thigh sustained in Thursday’s loss at Minnesota.

Raptors forward Serge Ibaka was not available (left knee), but C.J. Miles returned after missing Friday’s game because of a sore left shoulder. Miles started for the first time this season.

Sacramento trailed 9688 after a jump shot by Bogdanovic with 2:28 remaining, but a step-back Frank Gunn / The Canadian Press via AP

Raptors 108, Kings 93

3-pointer by Fred Van Vleet with the shot clock expiring gave Toronto a 99-88 edge with 1:38 left. After a Kings timeout, and a missed 3-pointer by Hill, Lowry sealed it with his fourth 3-pointer.

DeRozan gave the Raptors a 61-60 lead with a pull-up jump shot with less than two seconds remaining in the first half, but George Hill banked in a 46-foot 3-pointer from midcourt at the buzzer, giving Sacramento a 63-61 edge at the intermissi­on.

Sacramento made seven turnovers in the third, two of them during a 10-2 Toronto run late in the quarter that gave the Raptors an 83-77 lead heading to the fourth.

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