TORONTO -- DeMar DeRozan, Kyle Lowry and the Toronto Raptors pushed aside the Minnesota Timberwolves -- again.With Toronto down 95-94 with 8:46 left, DeRozan and Lowry keyed a 17-4 Raptors run that took the game away from the youthful Timberwolves. Toronto eventually pulled out a 124-110 victory, handing Minnesota its 13th straight loss at the Air Canada Centre.We just picked it up, DeRozan said. We kicked in our experience of understanding how we have to win games. We cant underestimate a team like that that plays extremely hard.DeRozan had a team-high 27 points for the Raptors, Lowry added 25 points with 11 assists, and Jonas Valanciunas registered his team-leading sixth double-double on 20 points and 10 rebounds.We just have guys that are used to it, trying to come through at the end of games and sticking with the game plan and sticking with the course of action, Lowry said.After Toronto fell behind 11-2, coach Dwane Casey sat all his starters except for DeRozan in an attempt to get kick-start his team into action. Toronto still trailed by 10 at the end of the first quarter, but it sent a message.We can be a good team, but we cant be special if we allow things to happen that happened in the first two quarters, Casey said.His counterpart, Tom Thibodeau, shared that sentiment, especially after seeing his team enter the final 12 minutes with the lead, 89-88. However, the Timberwolves could only shoot 38.9 percent in the final quarter, allowing the Raptors to outscore them 36-21.I thought the first three quarters were very good, connected, making the right reads, right plays, ball movement and screening a lot of good things happened, Thibodeau said. Then in the fourth quarter we got away from that.Zach LaVine led all Timberwolves scorers with 29 points, while Andrew Wiggins, playing in his homtown for the third time in the NBA, had 25.However, the loss didnt take off too much of the shine playing in front of family and friends for the Canadian, who is still waiting for his first taste of NBA victory on home soil.We need to get that first win here for it to be really good, but its always good to play back home, he said.TIP-INSTimberwolves: Minnesota fell to 2-14 when allowing 100 or more points. The Timberwolves have had double-digit first-half leads in 11 of their 22 games. The 37 points that Toronto scored in the second quarter were the most Minnesota has given up in a second quarter this season.Raptors: Wore their blue-and-white Toronto Huskies uniforms for the second time this season. Uniforms are replicas of those worn by the Huskies during the NBAs inaugural season in 1946-47. DeRozan played his 543rd game for the Raptors, breaking a tie with Morris Peterson for the most in team history. Toronto successfully converted 10-or-more 3-pointers for an eighth straight game, extending its franchise record. Raptors are 10-1 this season when Carroll scores 10 or more points.HE SAID ITAll his shots are lucky. To me its a bad shot. -- DeRozan jokingly about Lowry, who with 5:41 to go in the third quarter drained a 31-foot jump shot, one of the five 3-pointers he had on the night.RING IT UPBefore the opening tip-off, USA Basketball mens national team director Sean Ford presented DeRozan and Lowry with their Team USA Olympic championship rings. 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Except that Graeme McDowell saw the whole thing. Crouched behind the 10th green at Sheshan International, McDowell looked over at the powerful American and said, "Ive probably seen 18 of the best drives Ive seen all year in the last two days. Whether the heavyweight world title fight between Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko is finalized hinges solely on whether the WBA will sanction the bout, Klitschkos manager told ESPN on Tuesday.Bernd Boente and Joshuas promoter, Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing, have both said the fight terms are agreed to for what would be a Dec. 10 megafight at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England. However, it was stipulated by both sides from the outset that they would only make the fight if another major title was at stake besides the IBF version Joshua holds.Klitschko lost the IBF, WBA and WBO titles to Tyson Fury by decision in a massive upset last November. The IBF stripped Fury of the title 10 days later for agreeing to a contractually obligated rematch with Klitschko rather than fight a mandatory challenger. Joshua eventually won that belt.When the troubled Fury pulled out of the Oct. 29 rematch with Klitschko because of a cocaine problem -- he failed two drug tests -- heavy drinking and mental health issues, the Joshua and Klitschko camps began negotiating the fight, figuring the titles would eventually become vacant with Fury unable to defend.Last week, Fury vacated the titles, but neither the WBO nor the WBA has officially ruled on how it will fill the vacancies.The WBO has no plans to approve Joshua-Klitschko for its vacant title. WBO president Francisco Paco Valcarcel told ESPN he wants there to be a four-man box-off among the organizations highest-ranked contenders to fill the title. The matter is scheduled to be decided Thursday during the WBOs annual convention in San Juan, Puerto Rico.The Klitschko and Joshua camps have both asked the WBA to sanction the bout, but WBA president Gilberto Mendoza Jr. has yet to respond. Mendoza also has not responded to repeated requests from ESPN for comment, but the matter is expected to be decided soon.So Joshua and Klitschko are awaiting the WBA ruling. If the WBA declines to sanction the bout, Boente said the fight will not happen this year and that Klitschko would instead fight for the vacant WBA belt on Dec. 10 at the Barclaycard Arena, which is on hold, in Hamburg, Germany.Klitschkos probable opponent for that fight would be Australian contender Lucas Browne (24-0, 21 KOs), who won the WBAs secondary title by comeback 10th-round knockout of Ruslan Chagaev in March. Browne was quickly stripped of the title and suspended because of a positive doping test for clenbuterol in a sample taken a few days before the fight.We will go with the WBA ruling, Boente said. We hope they rule quickly because Dec. 10 is not far away.According to Boente, Klitschkos adviser, Shelly Finkel, and Brownes adviser, Leon Margules, have been negotiating the fight so they can be ready to go should the WBA decline to sanction Joshua-Klitschko.ddddddddddddFor Wladimir it is very important to have the WBA title in a fight with Joshua, Boente said. We made a deal with Eddie easily. We tried to find an agreement and we made a deal. If the fight doesnt happen now and Wladimir and Joshua both win their next fight, we can do the fight under the same deal next year and it would be even bigger. The framework is there.A fight with the 27-year-old Joshua (17-0, 17 KOs), regardless of which belts are stake, would be worth millions of dollars more to Klitschko (64-4, 54 KOs) than one against Browne. Boente said RTL, Klitschkos German television partner, would pay half as much for a fight with Browne, 37, as it would for Joshua.A Joshua-Klitschko bout would also generate a pay-per-view bonanza on Sky Box Office in Joshuas home country of England, where he is a pay-per-view star. But Boente said it is not only about money for Klitschko.For Wladimir, its also about the WBA title. For him, this is important, Boente said. It is his mission. He is serious when he says it is not only about the money.If they cant get everything worked out in time for Dec. 10 Klitschko -- already out of action for a year while waiting on the Fury rematch that was ultimately canceled -- would not fight until March or April. The reason is because that is the earliest RTL could accommodate a Klitschko fight next year, Boente said.As for the WBO, which ranks the 40-year-old Klitschko No. 2, he would be invited into a four-man box-off, but Boente said he is not interested in an elimination fight.The WBO wants a tournament, which is up to them, Boente said. We love the WBO. Wladimir held the WBO title for a long time and it was the first world title he won. He respects the WBO, but if they do a tournament Wladimir would not participate. At this stage of his career it makes no sense.If a Joshua-Klitschko fight is finalized, Boente said one of the major hurdles has been cleared -- the matter of American television. Klitschko has a contract with HBO and Joshua has one with rival Showtime. He said an agreement was made on that front but declined to specify how a U.S. broadcast would be handled, although a source with knowledge of the agreement told ESPN that the camps have made a two-fight deal under which Showtime would get the U.S. broadcast rights to the first fight and HBO would have the rights to a rematch.Showtime Sports general manager Stephen Espinoza and HBO Sports executive vice president Peter Nelson both declined to comment on the resolution. ' ' '