TORONTO -- Paul Millsap scored 34 points and Al Jefferson drained just the second three-pointer of his career with 2.2 seconds in regulation to lift the Utah Jazz 140-133 over the Toronto Raptors in triple overtime Monday.
DeMar DeRozan scored 37 points, Jose Calderon finished with 20 points and 17 assists, and Amir Johnson and Linas Kleiza added 20 points apiece in the Raptors' fourth straight loss.
Andrea Bargnani finished with 19.
The Raptors (1-6) played their first triple overtime game since Feb. 23, 2001.
Jefferson finished with 24 points for the Jazz (4-4), who won their seventh straight matchups at the Air Canada Centre.
The Raptors have been plagued by inconsistency, failing to put together a full 48 minutes of decent basketball -- their most recent glaring example, a ghastly second quarter Saturday that proved costly in a loss to Philadelphia.
They held on for most of Monday, leading from the outset, and taking an 87-82 lead into the fourth quarter and then stretching that to 11 points with seven minutes to play on a hook shot from Johnson -- their biggest lead of the game.
The wheels fell off in the game's final minutes of regulation as the Jazz whittled away at Toronto's advantage before Jefferson's three with 2.2 on the clock that sent the game into overtime.
The Jazz had a four-point lead midway through the five-minute extra period before a huge dunk by DeRozan with 23 seconds left put Toronto up by two.
Jefferson replied with a jumper to tie the game three seconds later, sending it into a second overtime.
The Raptors never led in second overtime, but backup guard John Lucas's three with 7.5 seconds left on the clock was good enough to send the game into a third extra period tied at 125 apiece.
A three-pointer by Millsap followed by a jumper by Gordon Hayward put the Jazz up by six with 1:33 left in the game, sealing the hard fought victory for Utah.
The Raptors played without starters Kyle Lowry and Landry Fields, along with Alan Anderson. Lowry missed his third straight game with a sprained right ankle, Fields is nursing a tender right wrist and Anderson sprained his left foot in Saturday's loss to Philadelphia.
Bargnani got off to another strong start, scoring 10 points in a first quarter that saw Toronto take a nine-point lead.
The Raptors had a 28-26 edge on the Jazz going into the second. Kleiza, who was playing his second game back after missing four to attend to a family situation, couldn't miss in the second, and his three-pointer with just over a minute to go in the half put Toronto up by eight.
A Mo Williams three cut Toronto's lead to 57-52 at halftime.
Foul calls killed Toronto in the third as the Jazz went to the free-throw line 17 times, draining 15 shots. The Raptors still managed to lead by as much as eight in the period and took an 87-82 advantage into the fourth.
Notes: The Raptors play at Indiana on Tuesday, the third set of back-to-backs for Toronto this season. . . The Raptors' worst start through seven games was in 2005-06 when they went 0-7.
