{"id":222891,"date":"2026-04-08T03:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/222891\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T03:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:00:11","slug":"raptors-roll-past-heat-121-95-an-outcome-that-locks-miami-into-the-play-in-tournament-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/222891\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors roll past Heat 121-95, an outcome that locks Miami into the play-in tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Scottie Barnes<\/a> scored 25 points, Brandon Ingram<\/a> finished with 23 and the Toronto Raptors<\/a> beat Miami 121-95 on Tuesday night, an outcome that locked the Heat<\/a> into the play-in tournament for a fourth consecutive season.<\/p>\n

Jakob Poeltl<\/a> scored 17 points for the Raptors (44-35), who moved within a game of idle Atlanta for the No. 5 spot in the Eastern Conference playoff chase. Toronto is aiming for its first playoff trip since 2022 and leads Philadelphia (43-36) by one game in the race for the sixth and final guaranteed berth in the East.<\/p>\n

RJ Barrett<\/a> scored 16 and Jamal Shead<\/a> had 11 assists off the bench for Toronto.<\/p>\n

A 19-2 run by the Raptors in the first half turned a two-point deficit into a 13-point lead, and Toronto maintained the double-digit margin virtually the entire rest of the way.<\/p>\n

Andrew Wiggins<\/a> scored 24 points for Miami (41-38), which now likely needs to win its final three games to have any realistic chance of escaping the No. 10 seed going into the play-in tournament for a second consecutive year.<\/p>\n

Tyler Herro<\/a> and Norman Powell<\/a> each scored 14 for the Heat. Bam Adebayo<\/a> \u2014 who had an 83-point game for Miami last month against Washington \u2014 was held to seven points on 2-for-14 shooting, and the Heat lost for the ninth time in their last 12 games.<\/p>\n

Toronto improved to 3-0 against the Heat this season. The Raptors have swept Miami in a season series only twice before \u2014 going 4-0 against the Heat in 2007-08 and 2018-19 \u2014 and will aim to do so again on Thursday when the teams finish a two-game series in Toronto.<\/p>\n

The Raptors improved to 13-4 against Southeast Division teams this season.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

The teams play again Thursday in Toronto.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Scottie Barnes scored 25 points, Brandon Ingram finished with 23 and the Toronto Raptors beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[40936,15960,96235,71378,100900,100901,123,125,2490,124,16489,15966,43570,67495,5835,13465],"class_list":{"0":"post-222891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-andrew-wiggins","9":"tag-bam-adebayo","10":"tag-brandon-ingram","11":"tag-event_recap","12":"tag-jakob-poeltl","13":"tag-jamal-shead","14":"tag-miami","15":"tag-miami-headlines","16":"tag-miami-heat","17":"tag-miami-news","18":"tag-national-basketball-association","19":"tag-norman-powell","20":"tag-rj-barrett","21":"tag-scottie-barnes","22":"tag-toronto-raptors","23":"tag-tyler-herro"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}