{"id":636782,"date":"2026-04-29T16:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/636782\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:59:09","slug":"scottie-barnes-fuels-toronto-raptors-heading-into-game-5-against-cleveland-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/636782\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Barnes fuels Toronto Raptors heading into Game 5 against Cleveland Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CLEVELAND \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/toronto-raptors\/28\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/toronto-raptors\/28\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> look to build on a two-game push when they visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/cleveland-cavaliers\/5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/cleveland-cavaliers\/5\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> in Game 5 tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Raptors forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/scottie-barnes-555906\/1251666\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/scottie-barnes-555906\/1251666\" target=\"_blank\">Scottie Barnes<\/a> has set the tone, averaging a series-best 25.8 points per game while taking on defensive assignments against Cavaliers stars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/donovan-mitchell\/879707\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/donovan-mitchell\/879707\" target=\"_blank\">Donovan Mitchell<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/james-harden\/395388\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/james-harden\/395388\" target=\"_blank\">James Harden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is the first player in franchise history to have four straight 20-point games to start a series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The best-of-seven NBA playoff series is tied 2-2 after Toronto followed two road losses with back-to-back wins at Scotiabank Arena, including a 93-89 win Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Raptors have held Cleveland under 100 points in both wins after allowing more than 120 in each of the first two games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mitchell has been limited to 17.5 points per game over the last two outings after averaging 31 in the opening pair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 29, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014 The Toronto Raptors look to build on a two-game push when they visit the Cleveland Cavaliers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-636782","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\/636782","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=636782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}