Bad Day Gets Worse for Carter, Raptors

The Toronto Raptors were unable to recover after Vince Carter crashed into Miami Coach Stan Van Gundy.

Dwyane Wade scored 23 points, including the go-ahead jumper with 28 seconds left, and had a key block on Carter to lead the visiting Miami Heat past the Raptors, 90-89, Sunday for their third consecutive victory.

After Carter missed a fadeaway with 43 seconds left, he banged into Van Gundy.

“He turned around and ran into me,” said Van Gundy, who has a welt under his left eye. “I’m not very big and I’m certainly not very tough, so I can’t imagine it hurt him that bad, because I would have gone down. I sort of took it and looked up the floor.”

Carter stayed on the floor for several seconds before a timeout was called. He glared back at Miami’s bench after getting up minutes later.

After a foul and a timeout, a double-teamed Lamar Odom passed to Wade, whose jumper gave Miami a 90-89 lead.

Carter, also bothered by a sore left Achilles’ tendon, missed a potential game-winning jumper with five seconds left.

Carter said he felt dizzy after the collision.

“He’s got a hard cheekbone,” said Carter, who was reluctant to talk about it.

Carter said his Achilles’ injury hampered him.

“I wasn’t getting as much lift off the ground,” said Carter, who went three of 12 from the field and had 12 points.

Donyell Marshall had 25 points for the Raptors, who have lost two straight games after winning five in a row following their Dec. 1 trade with Chicago for Marshall and Jalen Rose.

Utah 94, Philadelphia 86 -- Andrei Kirilenko scored 30 points and Matt Harpring added 27 at Philadelphia as the Jazz used a late 18-9 run to pull away from the 76ers, playing without leading scorer Allen Iverson, who has a knee injury.

Iverson is day to day, the team said.

Kenny Thomas led the 76ers with 16 points.

The two teams symbolize the disparity between the Eastern and Western Conferences: The Jazz (13-10) are in last place in the Midwest Division, and the 76ers (12-12) are tied for first in the Atlantic.

Sacramento 107, Phoenix 102 -- Peja Stojakovic tied a season high with 36 points as the Kings rallied by outscoring the Suns, 28-10, in the fourth quarter at Sacramento.

Shawn Marion had 28 points and 12 rebounds for Phoenix, which lost its sixth in a row -- dropping to 0-3 under interim Coach Mike D’Antoni -- by making only three of 26 shots in the fourth quarter.

Seattle 108, Milwaukee 102 -- Ronald Murray scored 23 points and rookie Richie Frahm added a career-high 17, leading the SuperSonics back from a 18-point, halftime deficit at Seattle.

Seattle lost its leading scorer, forward Rashard Lewis, to a strained left shoulder in the third quarter.

Michael Redd had 27 points for Milwaukee.

New York 89, Washington 87 -- Kurt Thomas put aside his anger about losing his starting power forward job to Antonio McDyess and drew a key charging foul on Larry Hughes with 15 seconds left to help the Knicks at New York.

Allan Houston tied his season high with 39 points, scoring 11 in the fourth quarter. His 23-footer with 18 seconds left broke an 84-84 tie and gave New York the lead for good.

Larry Hughes had 19 points for Washington.

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Wizard guard Gilbert Arenas went back on the injured list after playing only one game following his return from an abdominal injury.