\u00a0RJ Barrett scored a season\u2013high 31 points, Scottie Barnes added 17 and the Toronto Raptors beat the struggling Dallas Mavericks 122-92 on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Jakob Poeltl had 16 points and 10 rebounds and Sandro Mamukelashvili scored 13 points as the Raptors snapped a four-game losing streak against Dallas.<\/p>\n
Daniel Gafford had a season-high 21 points and 11 rebounds, Cooper Flagg scored 17 points and Brandon Williams added 16 but the slumping Mavericks lost their seventh straight and 17th of 19.<\/p>\n
Brandon Ingram and Ja\u2019Kobe Walter each scored 11 points, and Immanuel Quickley and Gradey Dick both had 10 as Toronto won for the first time in five home games.<\/p>\n
Barrett passed 8,000 career points, becoming the eighth Canadian player to reach the milestone. Barrett, 25, is the youngest of that group, which includes active players Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Dillon Brooks, plus former two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash.<\/p>\n
Flagg shot 7 for 17 in his third game since returning from an eight-game absence caused by a sprained left foot. He had eight rebounds and six assists.<\/p>\n
No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 NBA draft, Flagg earned the first technical foul of his career with 9:28 to play in the fourth quarter after arguing a non-call on his drive to the basket.<\/p>\n
Gafford shot 10 for 10 and made his only free\u2013throw attempt.<\/p>\n
The Mavericks are 7-24 on the road.<\/p>\n
Toronto came in having lost four of its previous five.<\/p>\n
Dallas didn\u2019t score on the fast break until the fourth and the Raptors had a 21-4 advantage in fast-break points. However, Dallas was plus-15 (27-12) in second-chance points.<\/p>\n
Neither team shot well from distance. Toronto went 10 for 36 from 3-point range while Dallas finished 5 for 30.<\/p>\n
The Raptors converted 20 Dallas turnovers into 27 points.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Mavericks: At Atlanta on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Raptors: At Houston on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0RJ Barrett scored a season\u2013high 31 points, Scottie Barnes added 17 and the Toronto Raptors beat the struggling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[760,355,99],"class_list":["post-512309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512309","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=512309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}