{"id":720083,"date":"2026-04-28T07:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/720083\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T07:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:03:18","slug":"cleveland-toronto-tied-2-2-heading-to-game-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/720083\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland, Toronto tied 2-2 heading to game 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toronto Raptors<\/a> (46-36, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> (52-30, fourth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Cleveland; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Cavaliers -8.5; over\/under is 215.5<\/p>\n

EASTERN CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND: Series tied 2-2<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Cleveland Cavaliers and the Toronto Raptors are in a 2-2 series tie in the Eastern Conference first round. The Raptors defeated the Cavaliers 93-89 in the last meeting on Sunday. Brandon Ingram<\/a> led the Raptors with 23 points, and Donovan Mitchell<\/a> led the Cavaliers with 20.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers have gone 33-19 against Eastern Conference teams. Cleveland is fourth in the NBA<\/a> averaging 119.5 points and is shooting 48.2% from the field.<\/p>\n

The Raptors are 33-19 in Eastern Conference play. Toronto is fifth in the Eastern Conference allowing just 111.8 points while holding opponents to 46.7% shooting.<\/p>\n

The Cavaliers are shooting 48.2% from the field this season, 1.5 percentage points higher than the 46.7% the Raptors allow to opponents. The Raptors are shooting 48.2% from the field, 1.8% higher than the 46.4% the Cavaliers’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Mitchell is scoring 27.9 points per game with 4.5 rebounds and 5.7 assists for the Cavaliers. James Harden<\/a> is averaging 17.5 points and 2.4 rebounds while shooting 44.7% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Scottie Barnes<\/a> is scoring 18.1 points per game with 7.5 rebounds and 5.9 assists for the Raptors. RJ Barrett<\/a> is averaging 20.1 points and 4.9 rebounds while shooting 50.3% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Cavaliers: 7-3, averaging 116.5 points, 44.6 rebounds, 25.2 assists, 8.3 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 49.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Raptors: 6-4, averaging 114.6 points, 41.6 rebounds, 28.0 assists, 8.3 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 50.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 106.7 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Cavaliers: None listed.<\/p>\n

Raptors: Immanuel Quickley: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors (46-36, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Cleveland Cavaliers (52-30, fourth in the Eastern Conference) Cleveland;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[7,4441,306,305,193,3846,864,78812,560,1407,6,1041,1261,476],"class_list":["post-720083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-basketball","tag-brandon-ingram","tag-cavaliers","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-clevelandcavaliers","tag-donovan-mitchell","tag-event_preview","tag-james-harden","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-rj-barrett","tag-scottie-barnes","tag-toronto-raptors"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116481058653268806","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720083","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=720083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}