{"id":503282,"date":"2026-02-25T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/503282\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:12:09","slug":"thunder-116-107-raptors-25-feb-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/503282\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder 116-107 Raptors (25 Feb, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO — \u2014 Cason Wallace<\/a> matched his career high with 27 points, Isaiah Joe<\/a> had 22, and the short-handed Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> beat the Toronto Raptors<\/a> 116-107 on Tuesday night for their fifth win in six games.<\/p>\n

Alex Caruso<\/a> scored 16 points, Luguentz Dort<\/a> had 15 and Isaiah Hartenstein<\/a> 11 as the NBA-leading Thunder won their third straight in Toronto. <\/p>\n

Oklahoma City is an NBA-best 21-7 on the road.<\/p>\n

Canadian star and reigning NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> remained sidelined for the Thunder because of an abdominal strain<\/a>. He didn\u2019t travel with the team on its lone regular-season visit to Canada.<\/p>\n

In his place, Wallace provided his second straight 20-point game, adding six assists and eight rebounds.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City was also without Ajay Mitchell<\/a> (abdominal strain) and Jalen Williams<\/a> (strained right hamstring). Caruso returned after missing Sunday\u2019s home win over Cleveland because of a sprained left ankle.<\/p>\n

RJ Barrett<\/a> scored 21 points and Immanuel Quickley<\/a> and Ja\u2019Kobe Walter each had 17 but the Raptors lost for the first time in three games.<\/p>\n

Scottie Barnes<\/a> and Brandon Ingram<\/a> each scored 15 points and Jamal Shead<\/a> added 13. <\/p>\n

Oklahoma City led 96-71 with 1:55 remaining in the third quarter before Toronto battled back, tying it 101-101 on Shead\u2019s 3-pointer with 4:06 to play. <\/p>\n

After the Thunder missed 14 of their first 15 field-goal attempts in the fourth, Wallace responded to Shead\u2019s 3 by making back-to-back shots, then forcing a steal and feeding Joe for a 3.<\/p>\n

Toronto\u2019s Jakob Poeltl<\/a> (lower back) sat out on the first night of a back-to-back. The Raptors host Victor Wembanyama<\/a> and the Spurs on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Thunder: At Detroit on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Raptors: Host San Antonio on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO — \u2014 Cason Wallace matched his career high with 27 points, Isaiah Joe had 22, and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-503282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503282","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=503282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}