Toronto Raptors<\/a>‘ G League affiliate lost 137-112 to the Salt Lake City Stars \u2014 the Utah Jazz affiliate \u2014 in the final of the Winter Showcase in Orlando on Monday night. <\/p>\nEntering the annual exhibition final, the 905 had won 16 straight, going undefeated throughout the tip-off tournament, and then beat the San Diego Clippers and Grand Rapids Gold in the knockout rounds of the Winter Showcase.<\/p>\n
It all came crashing down against a big and productive Stars side, as they jumped out to a 44-28 lead after the first quarter and never looked back. <\/p>\n
The Stars went 15-of-21 in the first quarter and were led by a huge outburst by centre Mo Bamba, who scored 11 points in the final three minutes of the frame. The 27-year-old finished with 17 points, 12 rebounds, five and three blocks. <\/p>\n
Despite the loss, Raptors rookie Alijah Martin had another strong showing for the 905, finishing with a game-high 33 points, along with six rebounds and four assists. <\/p>\n
However, inefficient games from Jonathan Mogbo (six points on three-of-10 from the field) and Chucky Hepburn (10 points on three-of-11 from the field) proved to be their undoing. <\/p>\n
On the other end, they were bombarded by former Oral Roberts NCAA folk hero Max Abmas, who scored a team-high 29 points and shot six-for-10 from three-point range off the bench. He hit two three-pointers in the opening minutes of the fourth quarter to build the Stars’ lead to 26, putting the game out of reach. <\/p>\n
With the loss, the Raptors 905 will return to Mississauga, where back-to-back matchups with the Maine Celtics await them on Saturday and Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Raptors 905 picked an unfortunate time to lose their first game of the season. The Toronto Raptors‘…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-362941","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\/362941","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=362941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}