By Ian Harrison<\/p>\n
TORONTO \u2014 AJ Lawson scored 28 points, Jared Rhoden set career highs with 25 points and 12 rebounds and the Toronto Raptors beat the 76ers 118-105 Wednesday night in a matchup of short-handed teams.<\/p>\n
Orlando Robinson scored a career-high 25 points and matched his career high with 12 rebounds to help the Raptors win for the fifth time in six games.<\/p>\n
Andre Drummond returned after sitting out Monday night in a loss at Atlanta due to illness but the 76ers were without eight players including Joel Embiid (left knee), leading scorer Tyrese Maxey (back\/finger), Paul George (left groin) and former Raptors star Kyle Lowry (right hip).<\/p>\n
Toronto\u2019s list of nine absentees included Scottie Barnes (right hand), leading scorer RJ Barrett (personal) and Immanuel Quickley (rest).<\/p>\n
Quentin Grimes scored 29 points and Jeff Dowtin Jr. had a career-high 20 against his former team, but the 76ers lost for the fifth time in seven games following a nine-game losing streak. The 76ers are 3-16 since late January and have lost eight straight road games.<\/p>\n
The 76ers shot 7 for 35 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
Takeaways<\/p>\n
76ers: Lonnie Walker IV played just 20 seconds, exiting after hitting the back of his head on the court in a hard fall in the first quarter. Walker was able to leave without assistance but did not return.<\/p>\n
Raptors: Colin Castleton had a career-high 14 rebounds in his first NBA start.<\/p>\n
Key moment<\/p>\n
The 76ers shaved a 14-point halftime deficit to three after three quarters but Toronto used a 12-2 spurt at the start of the fourth to restore its double-digit edge.<\/p>\n
Key stat<\/p>\n
The Raptors shot 8 for 12 from 3-point range in a 40-point second quarter. One of the four misses was Lawson\u2019s 34-foot heave at the halftime buzzer.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Both teams play Friday night. Philadelphia hosts Indiana, and Toronto begins a four-game trip at Utah.<\/p>\n
Originally Published: March 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Ian Harrison TORONTO \u2014 AJ Lawson scored 28 points, Jared Rhoden set career highs with 25 points…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,6,207,681,66,8991,680,476,3820],"class_list":{"0":"post-154119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-raptors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","11":"tag-raptors","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-top-stories-dtd","14":"tag-toronto","15":"tag-toronto-raptors","16":"tag-torontoraptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114813835506893349","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}