Toronto Star

Preview: Toronto at Golden State

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Oracle Arena, Oakland

Tipoff: 10:30 p.m. TV: TSN

Radio: TSN 1050

Probable starters Golden State: Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Harrison Barnes, Draymond Green, Festus Ezeli.

Toronto: Kyle Lowry, DeMar DeRozan, DeMarre Carroll, Luis Scola, Jonas Valanciuna­s.

Key matchup: Kyle Lowry vs. Stephen Curry. Talk about your monumental, and virtually impossible, task. Curry is by far the best shooter in the league and has made 57 threes in 11 games, a pace that will shatter his single-season record of 286 set last season. Lowry’s going to need an awful lot of help.

Need to know: The Warriors are the lone unbeaten team in the league at 11-0 and have been home and resting since dispatchin­g Brooklyn on Saturday night . . . How tough is it for the Raptors in Oakland? The last time a Toronto team beat Golden State at home was in 2004. They’ve lost 10 in a row since . . . The Warriors are also 45-2 at home since the start of the 2014-15 season . . . Golden State averages 114 points per game . . . Former Raptor Leandro Barbosa, who missed Golden State’s Saturday game with a family issue, is averaging more than 13 points a game in about 13 minutes.

Up next: Wednesday at Utah, 9 p.m. Doug Smith

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