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The Raptors Won Game 4 and Are 1 Win From an N.B.A. Championship

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Golden State Warriors may never play another game at Oracle Arena, the concrete relic they call home, but that is suddenly a secondary concern at best for the N.B.A.’s reigning but reeling champions.

The Toronto Raptors moved to the brink of their first N.B.A. championship Friday night by outlasting the favored Warriors, 105-92, in a Game 4 slog. Fueled by a Golden State-style haymaker in the third quarter, Toronto seized a three games-to-one series lead to take back to Canada for Monday night’s Game 5.

The Warriors and their fans, who have reveled in three N.