The road has been an unforgiving place for the Toronto Raptors this season, but that may be changing.

Chris Bosh scored a season-high 29 points and Morris Peterson added 24 Saturday night to lead Toronto to its third win of the season and second road victory in two nights, 95-82 over New Jersey.

Playing without second-leading scorer Mike James, sidelined because of lower back soreness, Toronto improved to 3-15 and shed the dubious distinction of having the NBA's worst record. Atlanta, which lost to the Raptors on Friday night, is 2-13.

Toronto had not won road games on consecutive nights since April 2000 and had lost its first seven away games this season, a stretch that included a 33-point loss to Detroit on Nov. 5 and a 26-point defeat at Golden State last Saturday.

Against New Jersey, the Raptors scored 15 of the game's final 17 points, which included a crucial tap-in by Bosh on a missed shot by Peterson that gave Toronto an 88-80 lead with 1:19 left.

Three minutes earlier, New Jersey had erased a 10-point, third-quarter deficit and tied the game at 80 on a three-point play by Richard Jefferson after Jason Kidd fed him with a behind-the-back pass on a fast break.

In previous road games, that might have been the Raptors' cue to fold their tents. But not this time.

``They came back but we didn't get down on ourselves, we just worried about the next play,'' Bosh said. ``We've been there so many times. We knew eventually we'd have to turn the corner.''

Peterson, who shot 8-for-12 from the field including 3-for-4 from 3-point range, said the Raptors' morale had not hit a valley during the recent weeks of losing, partly because they had been competitive in most of the losses. Toronto lost its two road games before the Golden State debacle by a total of five points.

``We didn't feel like a 2-15 team or whatever our record was,'' he said. ``We realize that we just got off to a bad start and we knew it was going to take a while to turn things around. We've had a lot of games that slipped away, but we've been playing competitive basketball and that's what it's about.''

New Jersey, meanwhile, looked sluggish for most of the game and had no response to the Raptors' late run or to Bosh and Peterson, who burned them for 37 points in the first half on combined 12-of-16 shooting.

Kidd led the Nets (7-9) with 17 points, and Vince Carter and Jefferson had 15 apiece. Carter left the game midway through the third quarter after injuring his ankle, but returned later in the period and finished the game. After the game, he described the injury as an irritation of the joint.

Kidd had harsh words for the Nets' performance.

``With the effort we came with tonight, we should all be embarrassed,'' he said. ``Not because we lost the game, but because we just didn't play.''