TORONTO -- DeMar DeRozan poured in 23 points, while Tyler Hansbrough added a season-high 18 to lift the Toronto Raptors to a 106-89 win over the lowly New York Knicks on Sunday.

Jonas Valanciunas added a double-double with 17 points and 10 rebounds.

Lou Williams added 13 points, Greivis Vasquez finished with 12, and Terrence Ross chipped in with 11 for the Raptors (42-28), who played without all-star Kyle Lowry for the second straight game. Lowry is nursing a sore back, suffered when he fell hard in Wednesday's win over Minnesota.

Lance Thomas led the Knicks (14-56) with 24 points, while the Raptors' former No. 1 draft pick Andrea Bargnani, who was booed during Knicks' player introductions, finished with 16.

Toronto led by as many as 17 points against the NBA's worst team, but looked disinterested for large stretches and allowed the Knicks to creep back to within 74-66 with one quarter left to play.

The Raptors pulled away in the fourth in front of a capacity crowd of 19,800 fans at the Air Canada Centre, and when DeRozan threw down his second big dunk of the day with 2:37 left, it put Toronto up by 19.

Raptors beloved rookie Bruno Caboclo was the beneficiary of Toronto's big lead, subbed in with just over a minute-and-a-half to play.

The Lowry-less Raptors were coming off a thorough 108-92 dismantling by the Bulls in Chicago on Friday, which ruined the Raptors' beginnings of a winning streak -- they'd won two in a row for the first time in a month.

They faced a far easier foe Sunday against the lowly Knicks who are missing Carmelo Anthony and former Raptor Jose Calderon.

DeRozan led the way with 10 points in the first quarter that saw the Raptors hold a 27-23 edge over the Knicks going into the second.

Toronto opened the second with a 20-8 run to take a 16-point lead, making it 17 before going into halftime with a 56-41 advantage.

The Raptors allowed the Knicks to shoot 53 per cent in a third quarter that saw the visitors pull within eight.

The Raptors are in Detroit on Tuesday and return home to host the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday.