James, Wade combine for 55 points in Heat’s 104-95 win over Raptors

TORONTO – With Chris Bosh back home on dad duty, the Miami Heat had to make do with the “Big Two.”

LeBron James poured in a season-high 35 points, while Dwane Wade added 20 to propel the Heat to a 104-95 win over the Raptors on Tuesday, marking Miami’s 12th consecutive victory over Toronto.

DeMar DeRozan had 21 points to top Toronto (2-2), while Jonas Valanciunas finished with 18 points and nine rebounds. Rudy Gay and Kyle Lowry scored 13 points apiece while Terrence Ross added 11.

Bosh — the third piece of Miami’s “Big Three” — didn’t make the trip for the game that came a day after his wife Adrienne gave birth to their daughter Dylan Skye.

The former Raptors all-star, who spent seven seasons in Toronto, is averaging 19.8 points and 6.8 rebounds a night. But his absence was barely noticeable — save for the fact he wasn’t there for fans to boo — as James and Wade more than carried the load. By the end of the third quarter, they were still the only Miami players to have reached double digits.

Ray Allen would finish with 14 points for Miami (3-2).

The Raptors led by as much as 11 in the second quarter, but a Wade turnaround jumper at the buzzer to end the third gave the two-time defending NBA champions a 78-74 lead heading into the fourth and sucked all the life out of Toronto.

The Heat opened the fourth with a 12-0 run, and held the Raptors scoreless for more than five minutes in about as ugly a quarter as you can get. Lowry’s driving layup with 3:58 left in the game was Toronto’s first field goal in the quarter, but the game was well out of reach by that point, and many of the 18,470 fans at the Air Canada Centre were already for the exits.

The Raptors’ string of futility versus Miami is the team’s longest active losing streak.

James reached another milestone during the game, becoming the fifth player in NBA history to score 10 points or more in 500 consecutive games, achieving the feat with a huge first-quarter dunk. The four-time NBA MVP joins Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (with streaks of 787 and 508 games), Michael Jordan (866), Karl Malone (575) and Moses Malone (526) as the only players to accomplish the feat.

Joel Anthony of Montreal played just nine minutes for the Heat and had two boards and zero points for the Heat.

Valanciunas had 10 points in the first quarter, to propel the Raptors to a nine-point lead. But Ray Allen drained a three to cap a Miami run and pull his team even at 23-23. The Raptors led 25-23 heading into the second.

A Valanciunas hook shot gave Toronto an 11-point lead with five minutes to go in the first half, but Mario Chalmers’ buzzer-beating three capped an 18-5 Heat run and gave Miami a 52-50 advantage at halftime.

The Raptors and Heat meet three more times this season, including Nov. 29 at Miami.

NOTES: The Raptors are at Charlotte on Wednesday, and Indiana on Friday before returning home to host the Utah Jazz on Saturday. . . Rapper Macklemore had a courtside seat and helped chuck T-shirts into the crowd during a timeout. . . DJ Jazzy Jeff and Toronto Maple Leafs James Reimer and Phil Kessel were also seated courtside.