Indiana Pacers (2-15, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors (13-5, second in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Toronto; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Toronto Raptors face the Indiana Pacers in an NBA Cup in-season tournament group play matchup.<\/p>\n
The Raptors have gone 12-2 against Eastern Conference opponents. Toronto is the top team in the Eastern Conference with 20.9 fast break points led by RJ Barrett averaging 4.1.<\/p>\n
The Pacers are 1-7 in Eastern Conference play. Indiana allows 122.8 points to opponents and has been outscored by 12.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Raptors are shooting 50.2% from the field this season, 1.9 percentage points higher than the 48.3% the Pacers allow to opponents. The Pacers’ 41.5% shooting percentage from the field this season is 4.5 percentage points lower than the Raptors have given up to their opponents (46.0%).<\/p>\n
The teams play for the second time this season. In the last meeting on Nov. 16 the Raptors won 129-111 led by 22 points from Jakob Poeltl, while Pascal Siakam scored 30 points for the Pacers.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Immanuel Quickley is scoring 15.5 points per game and averaging 4.8 rebounds for the Raptors. Brandon Ingram is averaging 37.0 points and 7.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Isaiah Jackson is shooting 56.0% and averaging 7.9 points for the Pacers. Jarace Walker is averaging 5.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Raptors: 9-1, averaging 120.3 points, 43.0 rebounds, 30.1 assists, 9.5 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 50.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
Pacers: 1-9, averaging 108.8 points, 42.7 rebounds, 23.9 assists, 7.1 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 42.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 124.4 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Raptors: RJ Barrett: day to day (knee).<\/p>\n
Pacers: Quenton Jackson: day to day (hamstring), Obi Toppin: out (foot), Johnny Furphy: day to day (ankle), Aaron Nesmith: out (knee), Kam Jones: out (back), Tyrese Haliburton: out for season (achilles).<\/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":"Indiana Pacers (2-15, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors (13-5, second in the Eastern Conference) Toronto;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[161188,966,355,1063,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-312521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-161188","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-basketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}