{"id":930077,"date":"2026-10-16T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/930077\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T09:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T09:00:28","slug":"toront-oraptors-fall-to-new-york-knicks-in-nba-pre-season-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/930077\/","title":{"rendered":"Toront oRaptors fall to New York Knicks in NBA pre-season action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NEW YORK \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/scottie-barnes-555906\/1251666\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/scottie-barnes-555906\/1251666\" target=\"_blank\">Scottie Barnes<\/a> led the way with 23 points, Canadian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/rj-barrett\/1132031\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/rj-barrett\/1132031\" target=\"_blank\">RJ Barrett<\/a> had 21 but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/toronto-raptors\/28\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/toronto-raptors\/28\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> narrowly lost 122-120 to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/new-york-knicks\/18\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/new-york-knicks\/18\" target=\"_blank\">New York Knicks<\/a> on Thursday in NBA pre-season action. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/kawhi-leonard\/512591\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/kawhi-leonard\/512591\" target=\"_blank\">Kawhi Leonard<\/a>, the Raptors\u2019 star off-season acquisition, had just six points on 2-of-5 shooting in 22 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Leonard, who had a game-high 21 points in his debut on Tuesday, exited the game with 4:42 left in the third quarter and did not come back in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Reigning NBA Finals MVP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/jalen-brunson\/887914\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/jalen-brunson\/887914\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Brunson<\/a> led New York with 20 points, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/karl-anthony-towns\/837030\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/karl-anthony-towns\/837030\" target=\"_blank\">Karl-Anthony Towns<\/a> adding 13 points along with a game-high 15 rebounds and nine assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was the second game of a home-and-home series between the teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Raptors beat New York 148-98 in Toronto on Tuesday, with the Knicks sitting all their starters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 15, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Scottie Barnes led the way with 23 points, Canadian RJ Barrett had 21 but the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-930077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930077","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=930077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}