{"id":9105,"date":"2025-07-19T22:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9105\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T22:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:40:08","slug":"raptors-summer-league-ends-with-semifinal-loss-to-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9105\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors’ Summer League ends with semifinal loss to Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"

After finishing first in the standings with a perfect 4-0 record and plus-63 point differential, the Raptors fell 98-88 to the Sacramento Kings in the semifinals. <\/p>\n

Toronto trailed by as many as 22 points in the third quarter, yet went on a 32-11 run to bring the score within one in the fourth. <\/p>\n

Jamal Shead<\/a> led the Raptors with 24 points and 12 assists, repetitively getting into the paint with quick drives. <\/p>\n

The starting point guard was most effective inside the the arc \u2013 finishing 7-of-10 from two-point range and spraying out passes to shooters \u2013 but did hit triple off a handoff to make the score 81-80 in the final frame. <\/p>\n

Ja’Kobe Walter scored 19 points on 5-of-12 shooting and Jamison Battle and Alijah Martin added 10 apiece. <\/p>\n

Isaac Jones, who joined the Kings on a two-way contract as an undrafted free agent in 2024, scored a game-high 36. <\/p>\n

Walter and Martin each grabbed three steals, accounting for half of the Raptors 12 total, coming in under the 14.8 they averaged in Summer League prior to the playoffs. <\/p>\n

Sacramento had only 19 turnovers, the lowest of any of Toronto’s opponents in the competition. The Raptors forced 117 turnovers and scored 135 points as a result in the previous four games. <\/p>\n

AJ Lawson, who led the Summer League Raptors in scoring with 18.5 points per game, was out with a hip strain.<\/p>\n

It was the first time the Raptors made the Summer League playoffs since 2018, led by a team that included six players who were in Toronto’s rotation last season: Shead, Walter, Battle, Lawson, Jonathan Mogbo and Colin Castleton along with 2025 draft picks Collin Murray-Boyles and Martin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After finishing first in the standings with a perfect 4-0 record and plus-63 point differential, the Raptors fell…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-9105","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\/9105","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=9105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}