{"id":99714,"date":"2025-12-30T05:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/99714\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T05:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:59:13","slug":"magic-blow-21-point-lead-in-loss-to-raptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/99714\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic blow 21-point lead in loss to Raptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Jamal Shead scored 19 points, Brandon Ingram added 17 and the Toronto Raptors overcame a 21-point, second-quarter deficit to beat the Orlando Magic 107-106 on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Gradey Dick scored 15 points and Scottie Barnes had 13 points and 11 rebounds as the Raptors rallied for the second straight day. Toronto\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/warriors-raptors-score-barnes-7315b751f68d04a8e28131bf71f87caf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beat Golden State in overtime<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando\u2019s Anthony Black scored 16 of his 27 points in the third quarter. Paolo Banchero had 23 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists for his fourth career triple-double but the Magic couldn\u2019t win back-to-back games for the first time in almost a month.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto fell behind by 21 points in the second and trailed by 10 after three before battling back in the fourth. The Raptors used 13-0 run to take a 105-102 lead with 3:26 remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Banchero had a chance to win it for Orlando but couldn\u2019t connect on a step-back 3-point attempt at the buzzer.<\/p>\n<p>Sandro Mamukelashvili scored 13 points, and Ochai Agbaji and Ja\u2019Kobe Walter each had 10 for Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Banchero made nine of 19 shot attempts in his second triple-double of the season, including three of four from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p>Desmond Bane scored 18 points and Tyus Jones had 10 for Orlando. The Magic, who beat Denver on Saturday, haven\u2019t won consecutive games since a three-game winning streak from Nov. 25 to Dec. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Center Mo Bamba made his Raptors debut after signing with the team earlier Monday. He had one block but did not score.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto center Jakob Poeltl (lower back) sat for the sixth time in seven games. Before the game, the Raptors said Poeltl will not play for at least the next week.<\/p>\n<p>Raptors forward RJ Barrett was rested on the second night of a back-to-back. Barrett (right knee) returned from a 15-game absence Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Magic: At Indiana on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Raptors: Host Denver on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Jamal Shead scored 19 points, Brandon Ingram added 17 and the Toronto Raptors overcame a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2205,28,139,141,1239,140,1240,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-99714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-orlando","11":"tag-orlando-headlines","12":"tag-orlando-magic","13":"tag-orlando-news","14":"tag-professional-basketball","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99714","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=99714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}