{"id":515400,"date":"2026-01-04T05:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T05:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/515400\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T05:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T05:03:15","slug":"rj-barrett-and-brandon-ingram-lead-raptors-to-134-117-victory-over-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/515400\/","title":{"rendered":"RJ Barrett and Brandon Ingram lead Raptors to 134-117 victory over Hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Toronto Raptors’ Brandon Ingram drives past Atlanta Hawks’ Nickeil Alexander-Walker in Toronto on Saturday.Frank Gunn\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Brandon Ingram led the way with 29 points as the Toronto Raptors surged past the Atlanta Hawks 134-117 on Saturday.<\/p>\n

RJ Barrett of Mississauga, Ont., who is still on a minutes restriction after spraining his right knee, had a season-high 27 points and four rebounds in 30 minutes of play for Toronto (21-15). Scottie Barnes had 20 points and Ingram added nine rebounds.<\/p>\n

Sandro Mamukelashvili had a double-double off the bench with 13 points, 12 rebounds and a career-high eight assists.<\/p>\n

Nickeil Alexander-Walker, who is from Toronto, led all scorers with 31 points for Atlanta (17-20). Jalen Johnson added 30 points, nine assists and seven rebounds.<\/p>\n

Dyson Daniels had a double-double with 20 points and 12 assists<\/p>\n

Star guard Trae Young (right quad contusion) missed the game. <\/p>\n

Takeaways<\/p>\n

Hawks: After shooting a torrid 38 for 72 on field goals in the first three quarters, Atlanta\u2019s offence sputtered in the final 12 minutes of play, going 4 for 19 from range.<\/p>\n

Raptors: Interior scoring has been a problem with starting centre Jakob Poeltl (lower back) out and Toronto\u2019s bench has also struggled to find its groove. That wasn\u2019t the case in the high-flying win, however, as the Raptors outscored the Hawks 60-46 in the paint and their reserves outscored the visitors 35-24.<\/p>\n

Key moment<\/p>\n

Toronto held a narrow 107-106 lead at the start of the fourth quarter but reeled off a 16-0 run over the first five minutes of the period for a 17-point advantage, the biggest of the game.<\/p>\n

Key stat<\/p>\n

After back-to-back games scoring 24 points or less in the first quarter, Toronto had 35 points in the opening 12 minutes of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Toronto Raptors’ Brandon Ingram drives past Atlanta Hawks’ Nickeil Alexander-Walker in Toronto on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3770],"tags":[10388,10376,7,10389,4500,9436,10390,4821,10371,10382,10383,10378,10372,10370,7678,6682,10387,10381,10375,10401,10373,10374,10380,10377,1943,2679,10391,9876,6,10396,10397,10399,10394,10398,10392,10395,6870,10385,10386,3559,10384,10393,681,83,1963,680,476,3820,9087,10379,4486,447,10400],"class_list":["post-515400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto-raptors","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-basketball","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-nba","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-raptors","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-torontoraptors","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515400","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=515400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}