TORONTO -- Stephen Curry scored 35 points, while Kevin Durant added 30 to lead the Golden State Warriors to a 127-121 victory over a weary Toronto Raptors team for their fifth straight win Wednesday.
DeMar DeRozan had 34 points, the ninth time in 11 games the league's leading scorer has topped the 30-point mark. Kyle Lowry added 24, while Cory Joseph had 14 for Toronto (7-4).
Jonas Valanciunas finished with 12 points, Terrence Ross had 11, and Pascal Siakam chipped in with 10 points and nine rebounds.
The game marked the back half of the toughest possible two-night stretch, starting with Tuesday night's 121-117 loss to NBA champion Cavaliers in Cleveland.
"The computer that spit out the schedule, I'm going to find it and break it," Raptors coach Dwane Casey had joked.
He had good reason to. While Toronto led by 10 points early, Golden State (9-2) roared back, outscoring the home team 32-15 in a dreadful second quarter.
The Raptors looked tired, the Air Canada Centre crowd grew quiet, and the Warriors stretched their lead to 19 points early in the third.
Toronto showed some life late in the third, and a Ross three-pointer cut Golden State's lead to just five points with 1:54 left in the frame. But the Raptors couldn't maintain any momentum against last year's NBA finalists, and trailed 95-86 with one quarter left.
Golden State didn't let up in the fourth, and when David West scored on a cutting layup midway through the period, it put the Warriors up by 14 points. Rookie Patrick McCaw calmly buried a three-pointer with five minutes to play to give Golden State a 17-point lead, sending dozens of fans for the exits.
Another Raptors' run cut the deficit to single digits in the dying minutes, a three-pointer by Ross making it just a six-point game with 1:07 to play. Three Ross free throws cut the lead to four points, but it was too little too late for Toronto, which shot 45 per cent on the night. Golden State shot 51 per cent.
The game, in front of a crowd of 19,800, marked the fourth-annual Drake Night.
The Raptors wore their Drake-inspired black and gold jerseys, while the Toronto rapper and Raptors' global ambassador sat courtside in a T-shirt of popular ESPN reporter Doris Burke over the words "Woman Crush Everyday."
DeRozan, Lowry and Valanciunas combined for 26 first-quarter points as the Raptors raced out to a 10-point lead. They went into the second up 38-34.
The Raptors couldn't muster any offence in the second quarter though, as the Warriors roared back to end the frame on a 14-2 run. Golden State took a 66-53 advantage into the halftime break.
The Raptors now head west for five games starting Friday in Denver. They'll play at Sacramento, at Los Angeles against the Clippers, at Houston and Milwaukee before returning home to host the Philadelphia 76ers on Nov. 28.
