"Raptors forward Linas Kleiza thought he had an easy lay-up late in the first quarter of Wednesday night's game against the Pistons.

But he was destined only to become Ben Wallace's next victim.

The 15-year veteran came out of nowhere to smack the lay-up attempt -- one of the many good plays by the Pistons as they destroyed the Raptors, 115-93.

In a lot of ways, this was Wallace's night. It was the 1,000th game of his career, which was why he drew a crowd of reporters at his locker before the game, and for 20 minutes he looked back at a career that started when he tried to make the Celtics as an undrafted free agent out of Virginia Union.

"I just try to take all the good advice people gave me," Wallace, 36, said. "Try to work hard, play hard, enjoy the game and live in the moment, and I try to do that.

"And 15 years later, everybody thought I'd be gone by now, but I'm still here."

Wallace joins Avery Johnson and Moses Malone as the only undrafted players to reach the 1,000-game milestone. Malone was drafted by the ABA."