Or so it seemed.

With about a second left in a game few would ever remember had it not been for him, Martin launched and made a three-pointer they're still talking about today.

"He came in, went, 'boop,' " Parker said here yesterday. "I remember being like, 'What's he doing?' "

What Martin was doing was preserving a streak that's now been alive for a decade and a day, a 10-year stretch of NBA games in which the Raptors have made at least one three-pointer, a streak that's at 837 games going into tonight's contest with the Phoenix Suns.

"Was he aware of it?" Parker wondered about Martin's shot, the latest into a game the Raptors have ever preserved their trey streak.

Parker was assured Martin knew exactly what he was doing.

"That's crazy."

Now, it's probably not that big a deal in the whole context of the Raptors, the NBA and what's going on this season.

But the fact is no team has ever done what the Raptors are doing. The next closest team is the Mavericks, who have connected in 830 straight games through today. The Sacramento Kings had a streak of 660 games end in November but, other than that, no team in NBA history has hit a three-pointer in as many as 600 straight games. It may not be big, but it's something.

There was a time when three-point shooters were considered specialists for their accuracy from beyond the arc. Now, the guys who can't make, or won't attempt, a three-pointer are in the minority. Chris Bosh, a 6-foot-10 power forward, has shot a better percentage from three-point range in his time in Toronto (39-for-128) than T.J. Ford (36-for-120) did in his. Rasho Nesterovic made a three-pointer as a Raptor, as did Kevin Willis, Greg Foster and Rafael Araujo.

Morris Peterson has taken more threes (2,158) and made more (801) than any Raptor since the steak began Feb. 26, 1999 at Indiana.

The Raptors have made a trey in every regular-season game played at the Air Canada Centre.