Cavaliers routed in Toronto


Associated Press

TORONTO

Now that the Cavaliers don’t have LeBron James, it’s payback time for the teams they used to bully.

Oh, and it’s also pizza time for Toronto fans.

With 10 seconds left in a blowout win over the Cavs, Marcus Banks sent up an alley-oop pass that Leandro Barbosa neatly laid in to give the Raptors a 101-81 win over the Cavaliers, who won their first game in the post-LeBron era two nights earlier.

“We weren’t trying to disrespect them, we weren’t trying to humiliate them or nothing,” Raptors guard Sonny Weems said. “We did that for our fans. You get 100 points, fans get pizza and that’s every game with us.”

Asked about the layup that secured a free slice of pizza for all 15,711 fans in attendance, Cavs coach Byron Scott said “no comment.”

Raptors counterpart Jay Triano had plenty to say, though.

“You know, how many years did we watch them dance down there with all the hoop and hollering and everything?” he said. “It’s a different team so it probably wasn’t the right thing to do to score, but our fans come to these games and they’re going to be here to support us for 41 games and we play this team three more times.”

Andrea Bargnani scored 20 points and Linas Kleiza added 19 to lead the Raptors in a matchup of teams spurned by stars over the summer.

Antawn Jamison scored 13 points for the Cavaliers, who were without Mo Williams and Anderson Varejao. Williams has an injured groin and Varejao was with his ill father.

DeMar DeRozan added 14 points while Sonny Weems and Leandro Barbosa chipped in 13 each for the Raptors (1-1), who got their first win since Chris Bosh left to join James with the Miami Heat.

Anthony Parker added 10 points for the Cavaliers, including a 3-pointer to end the first half with Cleveland down 46-38.

“We went backwards,” Scott said. “We just seemed like the fat cats and they seemed like a team that was really out there trying to get a win.”