{"id":399177,"date":"2026-01-10T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/399177\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:00:09","slug":"philadelphia-plays-toronto-looks-for-5th-straight-road-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/399177\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia plays Toronto, looks for 5th straight road win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia heads into a matchup against Toronto as winners of four consecutive road games. The teams meet Sunday for the third time this season. Toronto is 3-7&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia 76ers (21-15, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors (23-16, fourth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p>Toronto; Sunday, 6 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: Philadelphia visits Toronto looking to extend its four-game road winning streak.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>INJURIES: Raptors: Jakob Poeltl: out (back), Scottie Barnes: out (knee), Brandon Ingram: out (thumb).<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia heads into a matchup against Toronto as winners of four consecutive road games. The teams meet Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-399177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399177","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=399177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}