{"id":381883,"date":"2025-11-01T14:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/381883\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T14:00:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T14:00:23","slug":"battle-scores-20-points-hits-key-pair-of-3s-as-raptors-beat-cavs-112-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/381883\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle scores 20 points, hits key pair of 3s as Raptors beat Cavs 112-101"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Jamison Battle scored 20 points, including a pair of 3-pointers that helped the Toronto Raptors pull away in the final two minutes of a 112-101 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Cup opener for both teams Friday night.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers, who were without All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell and centre Jarrett Allen because of injuries, were within four when Battle made a 3 with 1:07 remaining and hit another half a minute later for a 108-98 lead. Battle made all seven of his shots, six from long-range.<\/p>\n

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RJ Barrett and Brandon Ingram also scored 20 points apiece for the Raptors, who stopped a four-game losing streak that followed a season-opening win.<\/p>\n

Evan Mobley scored 29 points and D’Andre Hunter added 26 for the Cavaliers. Mitchell didn’t play due to left hamstring tightness<\/a>, and Allen was out two nights after breaking the ring finger on his left hand in a 125-105 loss to Boston.<\/p>\n

The Raptors trailed by 10 points midway through the third quarter but went back in front in the final minute of the quarter on a bucket by Scottie Barnes, who had 14 points and 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n

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The Cavaliers were back in front in the middle of the fourth quarter when Battle gave the Raptors the lead for good with a 3-pointer.<\/p>\n

Jaylon Tyson scored 18 points for Cleveland.<\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/p>\n

Raptors: Host the Memphis Grizzlies on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Cavaliers: Host the Atlanta Hawks on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Jamison Battle scored 20 points, including a pair of 3-pointers that helped the Toronto Raptors…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3770],"tags":[208,7,45,4441,193,864,576,6437,1178,2286,177,6,681,1041,1261,2484,680,476,3820],"class_list":{"0":"post-381883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-raptors","8":"tag-atlanta-hawks","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-boston","11":"tag-brandon-ingram","12":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","13":"tag-donovan-mitchell","14":"tag-evan-mobley","15":"tag-jamison-battle","16":"tag-jarrett-allen","17":"tag-jaylon-tyson","18":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-raptors","21":"tag-rj-barrett","22":"tag-scottie-barnes","23":"tag-the-cavaliers","24":"tag-toronto","25":"tag-toronto-raptors","26":"tag-torontoraptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115474807279275294","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381883","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=381883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}