{"id":255456,"date":"2025-11-01T12:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/255456\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T12:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T12:45:11","slug":"raptors-112-101-cavaliers-1-nov-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/255456\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors 112-101 Cavaliers (1 Nov, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4431893\/jamison-battle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamison Battle<\/a> scored 20 points, including a pair of 3-pointers that helped the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-raptors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> pull away in the final two minutes of a 112-101 victory over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/cle\/cleveland-cavaliers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> in the NBA Cup opener for both teams Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>              The Cavaliers, who were without All-Star guard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3908809\/donovan-mitchell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donovan Mitchell<\/a> and center <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4066328\/jarrett-allen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jarrett Allen<\/a> because of injuries, were within four when Battle made a 3 with 1:07 remaining and hit another half a minute later for a 108-98 lead. Battle made all seven of his shots, six from long range.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4395625\/rj-barrett\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RJ Barrett<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3913176\/brandon-ingram\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Ingram<\/a> also scored 20 points apiece for the Raptors, who stopped a four-game losing streak that followed a season-opening win.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4432158\/evan-mobley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Evan Mobley<\/a> scored 29 points and D&#8217;Andre Hunter added 26 for the Cavaliers. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cavaliers-jarrett-allen-donovan-mitchell-injuries-9a67cdbf1d538eba0809dffe41b2b0ee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mitchell didn&#8217;t play due to left hamstring tightness<\/a>, and Allen was out two nights after breaking the ring finger on his left hand in a 125-105 loss to Boston.<\/p>\n<p>              The Raptors trailed by 10 points midway through the third quarter but went back in front in the final minute of the quarter on a bucket by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4433134\/scottie-barnes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scottie Barnes<\/a>, who had 14 points and 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>              The Cavaliers were back in front in the middle of the fourth quarter when Battle gave the Raptors the lead for good with a 3-pointer.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4683747\/jaylon-tyson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaylon Tyson<\/a> scored 18 points for Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>              Up next&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              Raptors: Memphis at home Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>              Cavaliers: Atlanta at home Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND &#8212; \u2014 Jamison Battle scored 20 points, including a pair of 3-pointers that helped the Toronto Raptors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-255456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}