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Brandon Ingram scored a season-high 38 points as the Raptors rolled to a 128-114 win over the Miami Heat on Thursday as Toronto closed in on a playoff berth.<\/p>\n
Ingram added seven rebounds and seven assists as Toronto (45-35) won both games of a back-to-back with Miami.<\/p>\n
The victory put the Raptors into a tie for fifth with the idle Atlanta Hawks in the Eastern Conference standings. <\/p>\n
A win on Friday against the New York Knicks or on Sunday versus the Brooklyn Nets will clinch Toronto’s first playoff spot in four years.<\/p>\n
RJ Barrett of Mississauga, Ont., added 22 points, six rebounds and three assists for the Raptors.<\/p>\n
Bam Adebayo and Davion Mitchell each had a double-double for Miami (41-39). Adebayo had 24 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists, while Mitchell scored 15 and added 11 assists.<\/p>\n
The Heat had already locked up a spot in the play-in tournament but were mathematically eliminated from the playoffs in Tuesday’s loss.<\/p>\n
Takeaways<\/p>\n
Heat: Two days after a 121-95 loss to Toronto that head coach Erik Spoelstra said “embarrassed” his team, Miami didn’t improve significantly. The Heat were outrebounded 40-34 and gave up 15 turnovers for 24 points.<\/p>\n
Raptors: All-star Scottie Barnes got into early foul trouble but Ingram stepped up, playing aggressively in the first two quarters, forcing the Heat to double- or triple-team him on defence, opening up scoring opportunities for his Toronto teammates. Ingram had 10 points in the first quarter and 13 in the second.<\/p>\n
Key moment<\/p>\n
Ingram made a pair of free throws with 1:58 left in the first half that capped a 14-1 Toronto run for a 19-point lead.<\/p>\n
Key stat<\/p>\n
Toronto had just one turnover in the first half and a total of six.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Toronto: Visits the New York Knicks on Friday.<\/p>\n
Miami: Visits the Washington Wizards on Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-593820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593820","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=593820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}