NBA 2K26 Summer League<\/a> at Cox Pavilion on Friday.<\/p>\nWhile there were five ties and six lead changes through the opening 15 minutes, Toronto took control with a 27-9 second quarter. They put the game to bed behind a 32-24 third quarter and then completed their blowout with a 36-15 fourth quarter. They fell just shy of the Summer League record for margin of victory, which had been set at 50 points by the Los Angeles Lakers in 2012. Toronto shot 51.8% from the field and 40.6% from 3-point range while holding Chicago to 30.9% from the field and 26.9% from long range. The Raptors out-rebounded the Bulls, 41-28, while out-assisting them, 25-8. They also doubled up Chicago in fastbreak scoring, 32-16, while outscoring them in points off turnovers, 40-13.<\/p>\n
The Raptors (1-0) were led by A.J. Lawson, providing 22 points, six rebounds and two steals off the bench. Alijah Martin added had 16 points, five rebounds, five assists and two steals off the pine. Jonathan Mogbo led the starters with 15 points, three rebounds and three steals, while Ja\u2019Kobe Walter tallied 12 points and three rebounds.<\/p>\n
The Bulls (0-1) were led by Javon Freeman-Liberty, finishing with 21 points and two rebounds. Matas Buzelis had 17 points, five boards and two blocks. Jahmir Young amassed six points, two rebounds and three assists.<\/p>\n
On deck for Chicago is a matchup with the Sacramento Kings on Saturday (8 ET, NBA TV). As for Toronto, they tussle with the Orlando Magic on Sunday (6 ET, ESPN2) for their next matchup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game Recap: Raptors 116, Bulls 72 \u2022\u00a0Download the NBA App\u2022\u00a0Summer League: Complete Coverage \u2022 Raptors 116, Bulls 72:\u00a0Box…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,4833,99],"class_list":["post-4188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-raptors-bulls","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188","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=4188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}