{"id":631847,"date":"2026-03-01T07:08:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T07:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/631847\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T07:08:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T07:08:41","slug":"raptors-take-control-in-the-second-half-and-hand-the-wizards-their-4th-straight-loss-134-125-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/631847\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors take control in the second half and hand the Wizards their 4th straight loss, 134-125"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Immanuel Quickley had 27 points and 11 assists to lift the Toronto Raptors to a 134-125 victory over the Washington Wizards on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Ingram added 24 points for the Raptors, who rebounded from back-to-back home losses to Western Conference contenders Oklahoma and San Antonio earlier in the week. Toronto is in fifth place in the East, now three games clear of the play-in group.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Will Riley scored 19 points for Washington, which lost its fourth straight game after beating Indiana twice in a row coming out of the All-Star break.<\/p>\n<p>The Wizards remain without newly acquired Anthony Davis (finger) and Trae Young (knee, quad), and 7-footer Alex Sarr (hamstring) didn&#8217;t play either. Collin Murray-Boyles (thumb) did not play for Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Washington led by three in the middle of the third quarter before an 11-2 Toronto run capped by Ingram&#8217;s 3-pointer. The Raptors were up 98-92 after three and pushed the lead into double digits early in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>All five Toronto starters scored at least 18 points. RJ Barrett contributed 21, and Scottie Barnes scored 18 and Jakob Poeltl had 18 with 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Bilal Coulibaly and Kyshawn George scored 14 points each for the Wizards. Washington shot 16 of 34 from 3-point range, but Toronto countered by going 42 of 63 inside the arc.<\/p>\n<p>Washington signed former Maryland standout Julian Reese to a two-way contract earlier Saturday. He was not active.<\/p>\n<p>The Wizards lost despite a 64-26 advantage in bench scoring.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Raptors: Host New York on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Wizards: Host Houston on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Immanuel Quickley had 27 points and 11 assists to lift the Toronto Raptors to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[979,495,7,1257,4441,964,292,3715,113,1399,6333,6,1041,969,1261,476,494,682,468,3892,982,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-631847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-wizards","8":"tag-alex-sarr","9":"tag-anthony-davis","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-bilal-coulibaly","12":"tag-brandon-ingram","13":"tag-collin-murray-boyles","14":"tag-houston","15":"tag-immanuel-quickley","16":"tag-indiana","17":"tag-jakob-poeltl","18":"tag-kyshawn-george","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-rj-barrett","21":"tag-san-antonio","22":"tag-scottie-barnes","23":"tag-toronto-raptors","24":"tag-trae-young","25":"tag-washington","26":"tag-washington-wizards","27":"tag-washingtonwizards","28":"tag-will-riley","29":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116152664492390024","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631847","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=631847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}