{"id":625322,"date":"2026-02-26T04:23:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/625322\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T04:23:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:23:39","slug":"vassells-21-point-performance-helps-spurs-rally-past-raptors-110-107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/625322\/","title":{"rendered":"Vassell\u2019s 21-point performance helps Spurs rally past Raptors 110-107"},"content":{"rendered":"

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San Antonio Spurs’ Devin Vassell (24) drives against Toronto Raptors’ Sandro Mamukelashvili (54) during second half.Sammy Kogan\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Devin Vassell led all scorers with 21 points as the San Antonio Spurs rallied to a 110-107 win over the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

De\u2019Aaron Fox added 20 points as San Antonio (42-16) extended its win streak to 10. Star centre Victor Wembanyama was limited to 12 points but had seven rebounds.<\/p>\n

Dylan Harper had 15 points, seven assists and five rebounds off the bench for the Spurs.<\/p>\n

Brandon Ingram had a double-double with 20 points and a season-high 11 rebounds as Toronto (34-25) led by as many as 15 points. Immanuel Quickley had 20 points and Scottie Barnes scored 15.<\/p>\n

Barnes had been questionable before the game after he suffered a right quad contusion in the Raptors\u2019 116-107 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Rookie Collin Murray-Boyles started at centre over veteran Jakob Poeltl, who didn\u2019t play against OKC the night before as he nurses a sore lower back.<\/p>\n

Murray-Boyles left the game in the fourth quarter with a left thumb contusion and did not return.<\/p>\n

Takeaways<\/p>\n

Spurs: After Toronto led by as many as 15 points in the first three quarters \u2013 and led by 12 heading into the fourth \u2013 San Antonio stormed back, opening the final period on a 15-2 tear to close to within a point. <\/p>\n

Raptors: Head coach Darko Rajakovic kept Poeltl away from Wembanyama, instead using Murray-Boyles and backup centre Sandro Mamukelashvili to slow down the Spurs all-star. That allowed Poeltl to go up against San Antonio\u2019s backup bigs and take advantage of the mismatch. Poeltl finished with 15 points and seven rebounds. Murray-Boyles had four points and five rebounds in 15 minutes of play.<\/p>\n

Key moment<\/p>\n

Wembanyana blocked Poeltl on a layup attempt with 43 seconds left to play, keeping Toronto four points behind San Antonio. Quickley scored on the next possession to pull the Raptors to within two.<\/p>\n

Key stat<\/p>\n

Despite Wembanyama averaging 11.3 rebounds per game this season, Toronto outrebounded the Spurs 50-40.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Toronto: Visits the Washington Wizards on Saturday.<\/p>\n

San Antonio: Visits the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: San Antonio Spurs’ Devin Vassell (24) drives against Toronto Raptors’ Sandro Mamukelashvili (54)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625323,"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-625322","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":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625322","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=625322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}