TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Scottie Barnes scored 25 points, Brandon Ingram finished with 23 and the Toronto Raptors beat Miami 121-95 on Tuesday night, an outcome that locked the Heat into the play-in tournament for a fourth consecutive season.<\/p>\n
Jakob Poeltl scored 17 points for the Raptors (44-35), who moved within a game of idle Atlanta for the No. 5 spot in the Eastern Conference playoff chase. Toronto is aiming for its first playoff trip since 2022 and leads Philadelphia (43-36) by one game in the race for the sixth and final guaranteed berth in the East.<\/p>\n
RJ Barrett scored 16 and Jamal Shead had 11 assists off the bench for Toronto.<\/p>\n
A 19-2 run by the Raptors in the first half turned a two-point deficit into a 13-point lead, and Toronto maintained the double-digit margin virtually the entire rest of the way.<\/p>\n
Andrew Wiggins scored 24 points for Miami (41-38), which now likely needs to win its final three games to have any realistic chance of escaping the No. 10 seed going into the play-in tournament for a second consecutive year.<\/p>\n
Tyler Herro and Norman Powell each scored 14 for the Heat. Bam Adebayo \u2014 who had an 83-point game for Miami last month against Washington \u2014 was held to seven points on 2-for-14 shooting, and the Heat lost for the ninth time in their last 12 games.<\/p>\n
Toronto improved to 3-0 against the Heat this season. The Raptors have swept Miami in a season series only twice before \u2014 going 4-0 against the Heat in 2007-08 and 2018-19 \u2014 and will aim to do so again on Thursday when the teams finish a two-game series in Toronto.<\/p>\n
The Raptors improved to 13-4 against Southeast Division teams this season.<\/p>\n
The teams play again Thursday in Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Scottie Barnes scored 25 points, Brandon Ingram finished with 23 and the Toronto Raptors beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3770],"tags":[500,1179,7,4441,88256,1399,6,558,29499,29496,678,29494,62644,29498,29495,13843,681,1261,680,476,3820,492],"class_list":{"0":"post-704411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-raptors","8":"tag-andrew-wiggins","9":"tag-bam-adebayo","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-brandon-ingram","12":"tag-heat-raptors-score","13":"tag-jakob-poeltl","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-norman-powell","16":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","17":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","18":"tag-philadelphia","19":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","20":"tag-product-32547-ap-online-basketball-game-stories","21":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","22":"tag-product-40780-ap-florida-sports-only","23":"tag-r-j-barrett","24":"tag-raptors","25":"tag-scottie-barnes","26":"tag-toronto","27":"tag-toronto-raptors","28":"tag-torontoraptors","29":"tag-tyler-herro"},"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\/704411","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=704411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}