I've been covering basketball for two decades, and I've never seen anything like what the Toronto Raptors just did to the Orlando Magic.
Not a 20-0 run. Not even a 25-0 run. A 31-0 run. Thirty-one unanswered points. The longest scoring run in NBA history.
Let that sink in for a moment. The Magic didn't score a single point for nearly eight minutes of game time. They went from leading 20-14 to trailing 45-20, and the Scotiabank Arena crowd was in absolute pandemonium.
"I don't even know what to say," Raptors guard RJ Barrett said after the game. "We were just locked in defensively, and everything was falling on offense. It was surreal."
The previous NBA record was a 29-0 run by the Chicago Bulls back in 2004. The Raptors didn't just break that record - they obliterated it. And they did it against a Magic team that's fighting for a playoff spot.
Watching the lowlights of Orlando's offensive possessions during that stretch is brutal. Turnovers. Airballs. Shot clock violations. It was like they forgot how to play basketball. Meanwhile, Toronto was executing flawlessly - fast breaks, open threes, defensive stops leading to easy buckets.
The final score was 139-87. Yes, you read that right. A 52-point blowout. The Magic never recovered from that run.
This is the kind of thing that ends up in NBA history books. Players will tell their grandkids about the night Toronto went on a 31-0 run. And if you were in the arena or watching live, consider yourself lucky.
That's what sports is all about, folks.
