{"id":194844,"date":"2026-04-13T01:58:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T01:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/194844\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T01:58:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T01:58:42","slug":"barnes-toronto-raptors-beat-brooklyn-nets-to-clinch-playoff-berth-in-regular-season-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/194844\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnes, Toronto Raptors beat Brooklyn Nets to clinch playoff berth in regular-season finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO \u2014 Scottie Barnes<\/a> had a triple-double as the Toronto Raptors<\/a> routed the Brooklyn Nets<\/a> 136-101 on Sunday to clinch a playoff spot in the NBA\u2019s Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n

Barnes had 18 points, 12 rebounds and 12 assists as Toronto (46-36) won its regular-season finale to sew up fifth in the East.<\/p>\n

The Raptors win coupled with losses by the Orlando Magic<\/a> and Atlanta Hawks<\/a> on Sunday jumped up to fifth in the standings and will face the No. 4 Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> in the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n

RJ Barrett<\/a> of Mississauga, Ont., led the Raptors with 26 points and Brandon Ingram<\/a> added 25 points with nine rebounds.<\/p>\n

Starting Toronto point guard Immanuel Quickley<\/a> didn\u2019t return to the court after intermission due to tightness in his right hamstring. He had four points, five assists and two rebounds in 17 minutes of play.<\/p>\n

Chaney Johnson had a double-double off the bench with 16 points and 13 rebounds as Brooklyn (20-62) finished its season with three consecutive losses. E.J. Liddell<\/a> had 17 points and Ben Saraf<\/a> had 15 points.<\/p>\n

Takeaways<\/p>\n

Nets: Brooklyn\u2019s season ended with a whimper as head coach Jordi Fernandez had to run a short bench with just nine players touching the court for most of the game. The Nets had 10 players on their injury report heading into Sunday\u2019s finale. <\/p>\n

Raptors: Needing a win to avoid the play-in tournament, all of Toronto\u2019s players except Chucky Hepburn<\/a> (right knee surgery) were made available. The Raptors had an excellent shooting night, going 51-for-81 (63 per cent) on field-goal attempts and 12-for-27 (44.4 per cent) on three-pointers.<\/p>\n

Key moment<\/p>\n

A.J. Lawson of Brampton, Ont., whose two-way contract was made into an NBA contract by Toronto earlier in the week, drained a 26-foot three-pointer with 4:58 left in the third quarter for a 19-point Raptors lead.<\/p>\n

Key stat<\/p>\n

Barnes\u2019s triple-double was the third of his season and ninth of his career. He\u2019s the first player in Raptors history to have three or more triple-doubles in multiple seasons.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Toronto will play Cleveland but the date of the first game of that series has not been announced.<\/p>\n

Brooklyn, the Washington Wizards<\/a> and the Indiana Pacers<\/a> have the best odds of winning the first overall pick in the NBA\u2019s Draft Lottery on May 10.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 12, 2026.<\/p>\n

John Chidley-Hill, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Scottie Barnes had a triple-double as the Toronto Raptors routed the Brooklyn Nets 136-101 on Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-194844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}