Washington ? A couple of pickups from the Mobile Revelers and North Charleston Lowgators stunned Michael Jordan into silence.

Rafer Alston and Damone Brown, both playing on 10-day contracts from the National Basketball Development League, scored 13 points apiece, and Alston added 11 assists Tuesday night as the Toronto Raptors devoured the Washington Wizards 84-75.

The injury-ravaged Raptors won their second in a row despite dressing just eight players — including recent signees Alston from the Revelers, Brown from the Lowgators and Art Long, who was cut this season by Denver. Alston and Long were playing their third game with the Raptors; Brown joined the team earlier Tuesday.

“I don’t think I’ve ever been in a position where guys don’t even know each other, don’t know their tendencies or nothing,” said Antonio Davis, who scored just 10 points and was in early foul trouble. “We were drawing up plays as the game was going on, and the guys didn’t even know the plays. But we stuck together for 48 minutes and came up with a victory.”

Jerome Williams scored 14 points and had a season-high 20 rebounds, and Morris Peterson had 21 points for the Raptors, who had lost 12 straight before beating Minnesota and Washington back-to-back.

Alston, who made 6 of 10 shots, was hot enough to engage Jordan in some trash talk.

“We play in the summertime together, and he would leave me open and I wouldn’t hit my shots,” said Alston, who earned the nickname “Skip to my Lou” playing street ball in New York. “I told him tonight: ‘I’m hitting these shots now.’ “

Jordan and the Wizards couldn’t have been more embarrassed. They had won six of their previous seven, and on Monday they talked about sweeping this four-game homestand and getting home-court advantage for the playoffs.

Instead, they lost the first one, prompting an unusually speedy locker room exit by Jordan and most of his teammates.

“No comment from me tonight,” Jordan said. “No comment at all.”

Jordan scored 22 points, but he was just 3-for-12 in the second half and 1-for-6 in the fourth quarter. The Raptors took the lead in the third quarter and gradually increased it the rest of the game — and neither Jordan nor anyone else on the Wizards could respond. They were outrebounded 29-14 in the second half.

milwaukee's ray allen, left, loses the ball as he is fouled by Atlanta's Shareef Abdur-Rahim in the third quarter of their game in Milwaukee. The Bucks won Tuesday's contest, 97-88.

“We had zero energy. We just we flat,” Washington coach Doug Collins said. “It’s about energy. It’s about will. It’s about going and doing it. We just didn’t do it.

“I don’t want to disrespect Toronto, but this has got to be more important to us than it was to them. Yesterday, we were talking about home-court advantage.”

The Wizards played without Jerry Stackhouse, who has a pulled left groin. But that pales in comparison to the lengthy Raptors injury brigade.

Knicks 98, Bulls 86

New York — Allan Houston had 26 points, Kurt Thomas added 24 and 13 rebounds, and Latrell Sprewell added 16 points for the Knicks, who hadn’t won the second of back-to-back games in seven tries this season.

Thomas had his third straight double-double and his 12th of the season.

Jalen Rose scored 23 points and Donyell Marshall 22 for the Bulls, who have not won on the road since beating Boston in their opener Oct. 30. Jamal Crawford added 15 points and helped Chicago cut the lead in the fourth quarter.

Rookie Jason Williams went 0-for-7 from the field and had four turnovers, including three late in the third quarter.

Charlie Ward stole a pass from Crawford and hit a layup, and Houston hit a three-pointer to push the Knicks’ lead to 85-65 with 10:05 to go. Thomas overmatched Chicago’s Tyson Chandler in the second half.

Heat 88, Pistons 85

Miami — Caron Butler scored 22 points, and the Miami Heat snapped a season-high six-game losing streak.

The Heat won despite missing six of eight free throws in the final 1:05. Detroit’s Jon Barry was short with a fallaway 30-footer at the buzzer that would have forced an overtime.

Butler shot 8-for-14 and added eight rebounds and four assists. Rookie teammate Rasual Butler scored 16 points, including two free throws with 17.7 seconds left for the game’s final points.

But Anthony Carter, Vladimir Stepania and Rasual Butler missed two free throws each down the stretch, giving Detroit two late chances to tie.

Bucks 97, Hawks 88

Milwaukee — Milwaukee’s Sam Cassell and Ray Allen scored 21 apiece, boosting the Bucks to their season-best three-game winning streak.

The streak coincides with Toni Kukoc’s return from a thumb operation that sidelined him for 18 games.

The game marked the return of former Buck Glenn Robinson, but Atlanta’s star forward missed his third straight game with an injured right elbow.

Shareef Abdur-Rahim led the Hawks with 23 points. Jason Terry added 22, but the only points he had after halftime came on a three-pointer with 1.5 seconds left in the third quarter that pulled the Hawks to 79-72.

Spurs 108, Suns 100, OT

San Antonio — Tim Duncan had eight of his season-high 38 points in overtime, and finished with 16 rebounds and nine assists to lead the San Antonio Spurs to a 108-100 victory Tuesday night over the Phoenix Suns.

Tony Parker scored 15, while David Robinson and Steve Smith had 11 points apiece.

Stephon Marbury had 29 points, Amare Stoudemire 24 and Shawn Marion 23 for Phoenix, which lost for the first time in three games. The Spurs never trailed after the third quarter, but Marbury’s three-point basket with 3 seconds left forced the overtime.