{"id":194608,"date":"2025-10-07T05:43:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T05:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/194608\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T05:43:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T05:43:52","slug":"nuggets-squeeze-past-raptors-112-108-in-nba-pre-season-tilt-in-vancouver-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/194608\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets squeeze past Raptors 112-108 in NBA pre-season tilt in Vancouver | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759815832_84_imageRedirect\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Toronto Raptors&#8217; RJ Barrett, left, drives past Denver Nuggets&#8217; Julian Strawther, centre, in front of Toronto&#8217;s Jonathan Mogbo, back right, during the first half of a pre-season NBA basketball game, in Vancouver, B.C., Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Darryl Dyck<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tOct 6, 2025 | 10:06 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>VANCOUVER \u2014 The Raptors unbeaten streak at Rogers Arena came to a halt on Monday night when the Denver Nuggets outlasted Toronto 112-108 in a pre-season game at Rogers Arena dubbed the 2025 NBA Canada Series.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Braun scored 19 points for the Nuggets, who led 64-56 at halftime and 94-88 heading into the final quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Jamal Murray of Kitchener, Ont., and Nikola Jokic added 17 points each for the Nuggets, who outrebounded the Raptors 48-38.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian R-J Barrett and Brandon Ingram led the Raptors with 19 points apiece, while Sandro Mamukelashvili chipped in with 15. The Raptors, who were 6-0 playing at Rogers Arena, couldn\u2019t make it seven straight despite a fourth-quarter rally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors&#8217; RJ Barrett, left, drives past Denver Nuggets&#8217; Julian Strawther, centre, in front of Toronto&#8217;s Jonathan Mogbo,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,459,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-194608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}