For all of Vince Carter's aches and pains and bumps and bruises through the years, he has remained remarkably durable.

Carter has missed only eight games in his NBA career. No. 8 came last night and his Raptors sorely missed him as they were thumped 101-75 by the Seattle SuperSonics at the Key Arena.

With Carter nursing a strained left shoulder and the Raptors missing two other regulars in Hakeem Olajuwon and Chris Childs, the odds certainly were stacked against them. On top of that, they were playing the second of back-to-back games following their win against the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday.

Still, Raptors coach Lenny Wilkens obviously would have liked his team to offer a tad more resistance than it did. The Sonics never had to look in the rearview mirror in the second half after burying the Raptors with a big second quarter.