{"id":642067,"date":"2026-05-02T02:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/642067\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T02:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:05:08","slug":"toronto-raptors-leading-cleveland-cavaliers-at-halftime-in-elimination-game-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/642067\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors leading Cleveland Cavaliers at halftime in elimination Game 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

With forward Brandon Ingram<\/a> (heel) and guard Immanuel Quickley<\/a> (hamstring) out, the Toronto Raptors<\/a> lead the Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> 61-51 at halftime in Game 6 from Scotiabank Arena on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Cleveland leads the first-round series 3-2 over Toronto.<\/p>\n

The teams got into it early, as Cleveland guard James Harden<\/a> and Toronto forward RJ Barrett<\/a> received double technicals after getting tangled up.<\/p>\n

The start of the game remained close, with the Cavaliers leading the Raptors by one at the first timeout.<\/p>\n

The Raptors got into foul trouble soon after, as the Cavaliers got into the bonus for nearly five minutes and got out to a six-point lead. Toronto had a strong close to the quarter in response, however, tying things up at 32 by the frame\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

The Raptors\u2019 momentum carried over into the second quarter, as the opened the frame on a 13-6 run to take a seven-point lead.<\/p>\n

Thanks to some buckets from Barrett<\/a> (15 points) and Scottie Barnes<\/a> (14 points and 10 assists), the Raptors held their lead till halftime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With forward Brandon Ingram (heel) and guard Immanuel Quickley (hamstring) out, the Toronto Raptors lead the Cleveland Cavaliers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,122281,3302,96661],"class_list":["post-642067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cleveland-cavaliers-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-5","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-raptors-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-28"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642067","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=642067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}