Toronto clinched a top-two seed and home court in the quarterfinals of the Emirates NBA Cup with the victory and the Milwaukee Bucks’ 106-103 loss to the Miami Heat earlier in the night.<\/p>\n
Ingram finished with 26 points and eight rebounds as Toronto (14-5) won its ninth straight. The Raptors finished the group stage of the in-season tournament with a perfect 4-0 record.<\/p>\n
Scottie Barnes had a double-double with 24 points and 10 rebounds, and Immanuel Quickley added 15 points, six assists and five rebounds for a banged-up Toronto squad.<\/p>\n
TJ McConnell came off the bench with 16 points, seven rebounds and six assists as Indiana (2-16) lost its third straight. Jarace Walker had 13 points and was a rebound shy of a double-double.<\/p>\n
The Pacers’ all-Canadian backcourt of Montreal’s Bennedict Mathurin and Andrew Nembhard of Aurora, Ont., finished with 15 and nine points respectively.<\/p>\n
Toronto backup forward Gradey Dick left the court in the first quarter and did not return after taking a hard fall while going up for an offensive rebound.<\/p>\n
The Raptors announced earlier Wednesday that swingman RJ Barrett of Mississauga, Ont., would be out for at least another week with a sprained knee.<\/p>\n
Pacers: Despite giving up an 11-point lead in the second quarter, Indiana battled back early in the fourth. Mathurin drilled a 26-foot three-pointer with 8:21 left to give the Pacers a two-point lead. The two teams went back-and-forth for the rest of the period before Ingram hit his winning jumper.<\/p>\n
Raptors: Head coach Darko Rajakovic went with a bigger starting five, putting six-foot-seven rookie forward Collin Murray-Boyles in Barrett’s spot in the lineup, playing alongside seven-foot centre Jakob Poeltl. Although Murray-Boyles only played eight minutes, Toronto still outrebounded (48-43) Indiana and got more points in the paint (46-40).<\/p>\n
An impressive 11-0 run to close out the second quarter gave Toronto a 50-49 lead at intermission, capped by four consecutive points by Barnes. That carried over into the third when Ingram hit a three-pointer to finish a 13-1 Raptors run.<\/p>\n
Toronto had an uncharacteristically bad game from three-point range, going 5-for-26 (19.2 per cent) from beyond the arc. The Raptors’ three-point percentage heading into the game was 37.8 per cent, tied with the Denver Nuggets for sixth best in the NBA.<\/p>\n
Indiana: Hosts the Washington Wizards (2-15) on Friday.<\/p>\n
Toronto: Visits the Charlotte Hornets (4-14) on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto clinched a top-two seed and home court in the quarterfinals of the Emirates NBA Cup with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-309445","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\/309445","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=309445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}