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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Allen Iverson wound up with the bigger
total. Vince Carter walked away with the win.
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Carter scored 39 points and the Toronto Raptors overcame
Iverson's 51 points and two big deficits to rally past the
Philadelphia 76ers 110-106 in overtime.
"That was fun, the kind of game you want to be in," Carter
said. "Of course, it's always better if you win."
Iverson returned to the lineup after missing Friday night's win
against New Jersey because of a bruised left knee. He shot
20-for-40 and scored all 10 of the Sixers' points in overtime.
All of Iverson's scoring upset Sixers coach Larry Brown.
"I thought it was a bad sign because everyone was deferring to
him," Brown said. "Too many times we kept throwing it to Allen
and running away from him."
Raptors coach Lenny Wilkens was happy with his team's defense,
despite Iverson's barrage.
"He (Iverson) is not going to beat us on his own," said
Wilkens. "We want to shut down the other guys."
Toronto won its third in a row and stopped Philadelphia's
five-game winning streak.
The Raptors used a 21-0 run as they rallied from a 20-point deficit in the second quarter. Trailing 93-83 in the fourth quarter, they scored
13 straight points.
"We let them off the hook and it snowballed on us," said
Philadelphia's George Lynch. "We were fortunate to get it into
overtime."
In overtime, the Raptors took a 105-100 lead with 2:22 left.
Iverson then went the length of the floor for a fastbreak layup
and, after a foul shot by Toronto, he made a tough jumper from the
lane to pull the Sixers within 106-104 with 42 seconds left.
Alvin Williams and Carter came back with jumpers to clinch it
for the Raptors.
Keon Clark shot 10-for-14 and scored a season-high 23 points for
Toronto. Williams added 14 points and Mark Jackson had 13 assists
for the Raptors.
Aaron McKie scored 15 points and Theo Ratliff had 11 points and
13 rebounds for Philadelphia.
A 3-pointer by McKie with 30 seconds remaining in regulation
tied it at 96. The Raptors had two shots to win in the final
seconds but Jackson missed an 18-footer and Williams was off on a
hurried 10-footer after he got the offensive rebound.
"I thought once we got it to overtime, we'd make a stop but we
never did," said Lynch.
Carter's tip-in gave the Raptors a 94-93 lead with 1:19 left. He
also hit a 20-footer that extended Toronto's edge to three with 43
seconds remaining.
Philadelphia started strong in the fourth quarter, scoring the
first 10 points to open up an 89-78 lead. Iverson had seven points
during the spurt as the Raptors were held without a field goal for
the first 4:13 of the period and missed their first seven shots.
The Raptors scored the last four points of the first half and
the first 17 of the third quarter, including four acrobatic
alley-oops, one a one-handed jam by Carter on a pass by
Jackson.
The Sixers were held without a field goal in the first 5:38 of
the second half, missing their first 11 shots. Only a long
3-pointer by Iverson at the buzzer allowed Philadelphia to hold a
79-78 lead after three quarters.
Game notes
The Sixers scored a season-high 38 points in the first
quarter. ... Toronto's Antonio Davis left the game in the first
quarter with a sprained right ankle and did not return. He finished
with eight points. ... Carter and Iverson combined to take 76
shots. ...It was the first time the Sixers have lost this season in
the 15 games they've scored 100 points.
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Allen Iverson drives through the Raptors defense for an open hoop.
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 Despite scoring 51 points, Allen Iverson felt nothing went the Sixers' way.
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