The escort DeMar DeRozan scored 27 points as the leading scorer against his former team and the San Antonio Spurs rallied in the last minute of the game they won this Saturday 119-114 against the Toronto Raptors.
San Antonio played his first home game since March 10, before the league imposed a four-month suspension from competition due to the coronavirus pandemic.
A triple of DeRozan, former Raptors player, with one minute of regulation time remaining, he put the Spurs with a 114-113 lead, which was extended to 115-114 with power forward LaMarcus Aldridge, who scored with 29.9 seconds left in the game.
The Spurs attack also had the support of the reserve point guard, the Australian Patty mills, who contributed 21 points, and the starting guard Lonnie Walker IV, who made 14 more.
The victory allowed the San Antonio team to improve to 2-0 at the start of the new NBA season.
The Toronto team added 27 points from the point guard Fred VanVleet, which was their best scorer, but they did not avoid defeat, the second in a row (0-2).
As for the power wings, the reserve Chris boucher achieved a double-double of 22 points and 10 rebounds, while the Cameroonian Pascal Siakam added another of 16 points and captured 15 balls under the hoops.
Meanwhile, the starting point guard Kyle lowry recorded 16 points and delivered 10 touchdown passes in what was his second consecutive double-double at the start of the season
