{"id":204847,"date":"2025-10-11T09:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T09:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/204847\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T09:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T09:27:08","slug":"mogbo-helps-raptors-finish-rally-with-pre-season-win-over-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/204847\/","title":{"rendered":"Mogbo helps Raptors finish rally with pre-season win over Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/toronto-raptors\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-raptors\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Raptors<\/a>, who trailed 63-42 at halftime and watched the visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/boston-celtics\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"boston-celtics\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Boston Celtics<\/a> 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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/jonathan-mogbo\/bdc15a29-e40d-49d1-a0a8-d21e95221e23\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"bdc15a29-e40d-49d1-a0a8-d21e95221e23\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jonathan Mogbo<\/a>&#8216;s 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>Gradey Dick led the Raptors with 22 points and six rebounds, while Chucky Hepburn had 13 points and eight assists.<\/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 cent.<\/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>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Raptors, who trailed 63-42 at halftime and watched the visiting Boston Celtics close the second quarter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-204847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204847","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=204847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}