TORONTO \u2014 Scottie Barnes scored 28 points, RJ Barrett had 25 and the Toronto Raptors routed the Orlando Magic 129-99 on Wednesday night to open a two-game set.<\/p>\n
The teams will meet again Friday night at Scotiabank Arena in an NBA Cup game.<\/p>\n
Toronto star Kawhi Leonard sat out as he recovers from swelling in his left knee. He was not on the Raptors\u2019 bench.<\/p>\n
The Magic were without starters Paolo Banchero, who is out multiple weeks with a high ankle sprain, and Jalen Suggs, who is out for a minimum of two weeks with a bone bruise.<\/p>\n
Barnes added six rebounds and four assists to help Toronto improve to 3-1. Barrett also had nine rebounds and six assists.<\/p>\n
Ja\u2019Kobe Walter had 14 points and five rebounds starting in place of Leonard.<\/p>\n
Backup point guard Jamal Shead provided a spark for Toronto, scoring 13 points and adding seven assists.<\/p>\n
Reserve forward Tristan da Silva had 20 points to lead Orlando (1-3). Franz Wagner had 15 points, five assists and four rebounds.<\/p>\n
The Magic jumped to an early lead, but they kept turning over the ball under pressure from the Raptors’ defense. They committed 20 turnovers, including seven by Wagner.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Toronto, which had struggled behind the 3-point line earlier in the season, shot 43% from behind the arc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Scottie Barnes scored 28 points, RJ Barrett had 25 and the Toronto Raptors routed the Orlando…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[1981,1970,1977,2097,7,420,12325,48,6,67,47,76,3883,1979,66,83,1974],"class_list":["post-870925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando-magic","tag-app-professional-sports","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-basketball","tag-florida","tag-florida-sports","tag-magic","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-magic","tag-orlandomagic","tag-professional-basketball","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117524929141085578","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870925","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=870925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}