San Antonio (5-3), down its burgeoning stars in Keldon Johnson and Devin Vassell, succumbed to a sustained wave of limbs and runouts in a defeat at the hands of a Toronto Raptors (5-3) team trying to maintain pace with Milwaukee and Cleveland. The Spurs were done in by an uncharacteristically slow start and few viable solutions around and through the length of the Raptors’ defensive footprint. Though San Antonio kept things close in the first 15 minutes, Toronto stepped on the gas in the second half to put the game out of reach emphatically.
San Antonio was paced by Keita Bates-Diop’s 16 points, while all 13 Spurs who played scored.