CLEVELAND — Which few words could one man say to another that might cause him to rise from the court, wrap both hands around his neck, with his back turned?



In the end, it doesn’t matter. The Raptors’ Serge Ibaka will likely be suspended a number of games for doing just to that to the Cavaliers’ Marquese Chriss on another rough night for Toronto at Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena. All-Star Kyle Lowry suffered a sprained left ankle early in the fourth quarter.



Before Ibaka, still seething, strode out of the arena without answering to reporters for his sins, he confirmed through a Raptors spokesman that it was what Chriss said to him that set him off.



There was one second left in the third quarter of what became a 126-101 blowout victory for Cleveland when the Raptors tried a full-court heave from under their own basket. Norman Powell’s pass sailed out of bounds at the other end, and Ibaka, who was tangled with Chriss, leaped...