{"id":811491,"date":"2026-07-20T04:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/811491\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T04:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:03:19","slug":"nuggets-beat-raptors-in-summer-league-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/811491\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets beat Raptors in Summer League finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Nuggets defeated the Raptors, 96-89, behind Jahmi&#8217;us Ramsey&#8217;s 20 points. Both teams finished Summer League at 3-2.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 40px; width: auto; vertical-align: middle; display: inline;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/logo.png\" alt=\"Denver Nuggets logo\" height=\"40\"\/> Nuggets 96, <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: 40px; width: auto; vertical-align: middle; display: inline;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1782882442_65_logo.png\" alt=\"Toronto Raptors logo\" height=\"40\"\/> Raptors 89: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/den-vs-tor-1522600075\/box-score\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Box Score<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/den-vs-tor-1522600075\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Game Detail<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LAS VEGAS \u2014 Jahmi\u2019us Ramsey scored 20 points, and Mark Sears added 17 points with six assists as the Nuggets defeated the Raptors, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/den-vs-tor-1522600075\/box-score\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">96-89<\/a>, in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/summer-league\/2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 NBA Summer League<\/a> finale on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Raptors raced to a 29-23 lead following the first quarter. However, the Nuggets responded in the second with a 24-18 burst to tie the game at 47-47 at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets outscored Toronto 30-20 in the third quarter, giving them a 10-point lead with 10 minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p>The Raptors won the final quarter 22-19, but that wasn\u2019t enough to turn things around.<\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets relied on their efficiency from downtown, shooting 41.3% from the field and 32.4% from 3-point range. The Raptors shot 46.2% from the floor and 24.1% from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gleague.nba.com\/player\/1630186\/jahmi&#039;us-ramsey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ramsey<\/a> was one of five players who scored in double figures for the Nuggets. Erik Stevenson and Matthew Murrell each closed with 12 points. <a href=\"https:\/\/gleague.nba.com\/player\/1631285\/efe-abogidi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Efe Abogidi<\/a> ended with 11 points in 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Only three players scored in double digits for the Raptors. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/pacers\/news\/nimari-burnett-2026-draft-prospect\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nimari Burnett<\/a> led the way with a team-high 15 points, and he also added nine rebounds. Malik Thomas had 13 points while shooting 6-for-14 from the floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nuggets defeated the Raptors, 96-89, behind Jahmi&#8217;us Ramsey&#8217;s 20 points. Both teams finished Summer League at 3-2.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,3907,129647,85,5657],"class_list":["post-811491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-nuggets","tag-raptors","tag-sports","tag-summer-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811491","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=811491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}