TORONTO -- The Toronto Raptors swept their season series with the Sixers for the first time in history, winning 125-114 at the Air Canada Centre on Wednesday night.
Jonas Valanciunas' game showed no ill effects from his Monday arrest for impaired driving, as the Raptors' 7-footer scored a career-high 26 points and grabbed 12 rebounds.
Much like the first time these two teams met in Toronto, the 21-year-old Lithuanian was in control. He posted 12 points and 13 rebounds in a 108-100 Toronto win on Dec. 8, and the Air Canada Centre was kind to Valanciunas again on Wednesday.
Valanciunas set his career mark with a wide-open dunk just before the third quarter expired. He was hot out of the gate, pulling down six rebounds to go with 10 points in the first quarter despite coming out with 2:50 to play.
Toronto led by as many as 13 points, but the Sixers put together a late run to sink the deficit to six with 4:50 to go in the fourth quarter.
Michael Carter-Williams and Henry Sims were bright spots for the 76ers. Carter-Williams recorded 19 points, nine rebounds and eight assists in engineering the offense to triple-digits, while Sims scored 22 points and picked up eight rebounds despite playing with foul trouble for much of the evening.
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Thaddeus Young added 16 points for the Sixers.
Kyle Lowry had 29 points for Toronto, which also got 17 each from Patrick Patterson and DeMar DeRozan.
The Raptors are within one win of matching their record for most wins in franchise history. They won 47 games in 2000-01 and 2006-07.
For starters
It's entirely fair to call the first quarter "wide open." The Raptors and Sixers traded chances en route to a 62-point quarter. The Sixers' disinterest in manning the inside allowed Toronto to penetrate almost at will, and in a number of manners. Seven Raptors scored in the frame.
Lowry leads
Former Villanova star Lowry returned from a three-game absence caused by a knee injury. The Toronto point guard had 10 points, six assists and two rebounds in the first half, and really played a prototypical point.
Lowry earned "M-V-P" chants from the ACC crowd, and his totals for the game don't do much to dispute their favor: 29 points, eight assists, five rebounds.
Oh, Henry
Sims scored in double digits for the ninth time in 10 games, and was doing the little things well, too. He was strong in the mid-range game, and scored on a couple tidy hook shots as well. Sims was tipping rebounds outside and generally one of the only Sixers to make it difficult for Toronto in the paint.
Lay it on the line
Toronto's the fifth-best free-throw shooting team in the league, with a 78 percent success rate on an average of 24.8 shots per game, and the Sixers had no problem putting the Raptors on the stripe.
Toronto made its 25th attempt of the night with 3:54 to go ... in the first half. The Raptors finished the half at 84 percent from the line.
The Sixers were perfect on half as many attempts in the first half, going 12 for 12.
Deep threat
James Anderson was strong from behind the arc, pouring in the Sixers' first nine points via three-point shots. Fifteen of his 17 points came courtesy of the three-ball.
Rough century
The NBA's worst defense allowed Toronto to eclipse the century mark on a Tyler Hansbrough dunk with 11:02 to go in the fourth quarter. It's the 67th time the Sixers have allowed 100 or more points in a game this season.
What’s next?
The Sixers head to Memphis for a Friday matchup with the Grizzlies. It's the Sixers' penultimate road game of the season, and Memphis is trying to chase down Phoenix or Dallas for one of the West's final two playoff spots.