{"id":204271,"date":"2025-10-11T03:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T03:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/204271\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T03:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T03:29:12","slug":"raptors-rally-to-sink-celtics-107-105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/204271\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors rally to sink Celtics 107-105"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy n        The Canadian Pressn      <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted October 10, 2025 9:53 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2013 The Toronto Raptors, who trailed 63-42 at halftime and watched the visiting Boston Celtics close the second quarter on a 20-3 run, pulled off an entertaining pre-season comeback on Friday with a 107-105 decision.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760146148_446_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Mogbo\u2019s buzzer beater finished off an 18-2 Raptors run to record the thrilling NBA victory.<\/p>\n<p>The teams were tied 103-103 with 41 seconds left in the fourth quarter when Wendell Moore Jr. scored a layup for the Celtics to make it a two-point game. David Roddy of the Raptors tied it at 105-105 with a layup of his own six seconds later.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRelated Videos\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: '\u2018I love you Toronto\u2019: Masai Ujiri speaks for the first time since Raptors departure'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760153352_113_THU_MASAI_SITE_THUMB_070325.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t0:40<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u2018I love you Toronto\u2019: Masai Ujiri speaks for the first time since Raptors departure\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPrevious Video<\/p>\n<p>\t\tNext Video<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Gradey Dick led the Raptors with 22 points and six rebounds, while Chucky Hepburn had 13 points and eight assists.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760146149_837_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Boucher and Payton Pritchard each scored 19 points for the Celtics, while Anfernee Simons had 18. Boucher led on the boards with nine rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>The Raptors shot 43.1 per cent from the field, while the Celtics shot 45.7 per cen.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics outrebounded the hosts 54-34, including a 35-19 edge on the defensive boards.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics had more turnovers (28-18), more points in the paint (52-40) and more personal fouls (25-24).<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT<\/p>\n<p>Celtics: Host the Cleveland Cavaliers in pre-season action on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Raptors: Visit the Washington Wizards in pre-season action on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 10, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Sports<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By n The Canadian Pressn The Canadian Press Posted October 10, 2025 9:53 pm 1 min read Descrease&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[461,49,48,2698,459,82,10676],"class_list":["post-204271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-toronto-raptors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204271","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=204271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}