{"id":944121,"date":"2026-10-24T05:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T05:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/944121\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T05:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T05:22:08","slug":"barnes-barrett-lead-stingy-raptors-to-win-over-wizards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/944121\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnes, Barrett lead stingy Raptors to win over Wizards"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 Scottie Barnes<\/a> had 28 points and 14 rebounds, and the Toronto Raptors<\/a> continued their stellar defensive start to the season with a 112-102 victory over the Washington Wizards on Friday night.<\/p>\n

RJ Barrett<\/a> added 23 points and Kawhi Leonard scored 16 for Toronto, which forced 23 Washington turnovers after Chicago committed 27 in the Raptors’ season-opening victory on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Trae Young had 22 points and 12 assists for the Wizards, who trailed throughout and were down by 17 in the second quarter before closing within a point in the third.<\/p>\n

Tre Johnson added 20 points, but Anthony Davis finished with only nine on 3-for-12 shooting in his second career game for Washington. He had 34 points Wednesday in their season-opening victory.<\/p>\n

Toronto led 18-6 on the offensive glass and 52-32 in points in the paint.<\/p>\n

The Wizards closed within a possession for the first time since the first quarter on Bilal Coulibaly’s layup to make it 64-61 early in the third, and got it to one with a 9-0 run.<\/p>\n

Jamison Battle’s three-pointer made it 81-77 at the end of the third, and Toronto maintained a multiple-possession lead throughout the fourth.<\/p>\n

It was all Raptors early.<\/p>\n

Barrett and Leonard hit three-pointers to open the scoring. Collin Murray-Boyles’ steal and dunk stretched it to 22-11 and completed a 12-3 run, and Barrett and Allen Graves hit the first two baskets of the second quarter to make it 38-21.<\/p>\n

Raptors: Visit Minnesota on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Wizards: Complete their first back-to-back set Saturday at Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Scottie Barnes had 28 points and 14 rebounds, and the Toronto Raptors continued their stellar defensive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":["post-944121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944121","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=944121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}