Washington Wizards (1-13, 15th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors (10-5, second in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Toronto; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Raptors play the Washington Wizards in an NBA Cup in-season tournament group play matchup.<\/p>\n
The Raptors are 9-2 in Eastern Conference games. Toronto is third in the Eastern Conference with 54.9 points per game in the paint led by RJ Barrett averaging 10.4.<\/p>\n
The Wizards are 0-9 in conference play. Washington averages 16.6 turnovers per game and is 1-1 when committing fewer turnovers than opponents.<\/p>\n
The Raptors make 50.0% of their shots from the field this season, which is 2.1 percentage points higher than the Wizards have allowed to their opponents (47.9%). The Wizards average 112.6 points per game, 2.3 fewer than the 114.9 the Raptors give up.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Scottie Barnes is shooting 50.0% and averaging 19.2 points for the Raptors. Immanuel Quickley is averaging 4.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
CJ McCollum is averaging 16.1 points and 3.4 assists for the Wizards. Kyshawn George is averaging 23.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Raptors: 9-1, averaging 119.1 points, 44.6 rebounds, 29.9 assists, 8.4 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 49.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.5 points per game.<\/p>\n
Wizards: 0-10, averaging 109.3 points, 42.0 rebounds, 24.5 assists, 6.0 steals and 5.9 blocks per game while shooting 45.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 128.7 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Raptors: Collin Murray-Boyles: day to day (knee).<\/p>\n
Wizards: Alex Sarr: day to day (toe).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Wizards (1-13, 15th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors (10-5, second in the Eastern Conference) Toronto;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[133067,1331,49,48,459,34740,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-295191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-133067","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295191","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=295191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}