{"id":704937,"date":"2026-04-08T09:21:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/704937\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:21:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:21:47","slug":"barnes-powers-raptors-past-heat-in-critical-win-for-torontos-playoff-seeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/704937\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnes powers Raptors past Heat in critical win for Toronto&#8217;s playoff seeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/scottie-barnes\/1738927f-6ef3-4b23-921d-168b4371f917\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"1738927f-6ef3-4b23-921d-168b4371f917\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Scottie Barnes<\/a> had 25 points as the Raptors routed the Miami Heat 121-95 on Tuesday in a critical win for Toronto&#8217;s post-season seeding.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes added eight rebounds and five assists for the Raptors (44-35), who tightened their grip on the sixth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Brandon Ingram added 23 points with six rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Miami was 10th in the East, holding the fourth seed in the conference&#8217;s play-in tournament, three games back of the Raptors.<\/p>\n<p>Immanuel Quickley (plantar fasciitis, right foot), Sandro Mamukelashvili (left knee soreness) and Collin Murray-Boyles (right quad contusion) were all made available to play for Toronto less than an hour before opening tipoff.<\/p>\n<p>Quickley started, scoring three points and adding four assists and four rebounds in 18 minutes of play.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Wiggins of Vaughan, Ont., led Miami (41-38) with 24 points. Tyler Herro and former Raptors guard Norm Powell each had 14 points.<\/p>\n<p>Heat: A poor shooting performance cooled off any offence Miami managed to string together in the final three quarters. The Heat finished 33-for-91 (36.3 per cent) on field-goal attempts, including 12-for-44 (27.3 per cent) on three-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>Raptors: Toronto&#8217;s interior play carried the day, with the Raptors outscoring Miami 70-34 in the paint and getting 23 second-chance points to the Heat&#8217;s six. RJ Barrett of Mississauga, Ont., and Murray-Boyles, like Barnes, had eight rebounds apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Barrett had a putback layup with 4:58 left in the first half to cap a 17-4 Raptors run that gave Toronto a 13-point lead.<\/p>\n<p>In the six games Miami has been held to fewer than 100 points this season, three were against the Raptors.<\/p>\n<p>The Raptors and Heat will play each other again Thursday night at Toronto&#8217;s Scotiabank Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottie Barnes had 25 points as the Raptors routed the Miami Heat 121-95 on Tuesday in a critical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,6,681,680,476,3820],"class_list":{"0":"post-704937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-raptors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-raptors","11":"tag-toronto","12":"tag-toronto-raptors","13":"tag-torontoraptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116368359063066962","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704937","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=704937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}