Philadelphia 76ers (21-15, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors (23-16, fourth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Toronto; Sunday, 6 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Philadelphia visits Toronto looking to extend its four-game road winning streak.<\/p>\n
The Raptors are 3-7 in division matchups. Toronto leads the NBA with 19.3 fast break points per game led by RJ Barrett averaging 4.0.<\/p>\n
The 76ers are 7-3 against the rest of their division. Philadelphia is eighth in the Eastern Conference allowing only 115.5 points while holding opponents to 46.6% shooting.<\/p>\n
The Raptors are shooting 47.4% from the field this season, 0.8 percentage points higher than the 46.6% the 76ers allow to opponents. The 76ers average 5.0 more points per game (117.2) than the Raptors allow their opponents to score (112.2).<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the third time this season. The Raptors won the last meeting 121-112 on Nov. 20. Barrett scored 22 points to help lead the Raptors to the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Sandro Mamukelashvili is shooting 52.0% and averaging 10.6 points for the Raptors. Immanuel Quickley is averaging 18.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Tyrese Maxey is averaging 30.7 points, 6.9 assists and 1.9 steals for the 76ers. Joel Embiid is averaging 22.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Raptors: 6-4, averaging 112.7 points, 45.2 rebounds, 28.6 assists, 8.3 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 45.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
76ers: 6-4, averaging 118.3 points, 43.3 rebounds, 24.3 assists, 10.2 steals and 5.8 blocks per game while shooting 45.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 115.5 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Raptors: Jakob Poeltl: out (back), Scottie Barnes: out (knee), Brandon Ingram: out (thumb).<\/p>\n
76ers: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia 76ers (21-15, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors (23-16, fourth in the Eastern Conference) Toronto;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[41807,1165,10377,69,71,70,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-83158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-41807","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nba-basketball","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","13":"tag-philadelphia-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}