{"id":513046,"date":"2026-03-09T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/513046\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T13:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:47:10","slug":"raptors-122-92-mavericks-mar-8-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/513046\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors 122-92 Mavericks (Mar 8, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO — \u2014 RJ Barrett<\/a> scored a season\u2013high 31 points, Scottie Barnes<\/a> added 17 and the Toronto Raptors<\/a> beat the struggling Dallas Mavericks<\/a> 122-92 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Jakob Poeltl<\/a> had 16 points and 10 rebounds and Sandro Mamukelashvili<\/a> scored 13 points as the Raptors snapped a four-game losing streak against Dallas.<\/p>\n

Daniel Gafford<\/a> had a season-high 21 points and 11 rebounds, Cooper Flagg<\/a> scored 17 points and Brandon Williams<\/a> added 16 but the slumping Mavericks lost their seventh straight and 17th of 19.<\/p>\n

Brandon Ingram<\/a> and Ja\u2019Kobe Walter each scored 11 points, and Immanuel Quickley<\/a> and Gradey Dick<\/a> 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<\/a> and Dillon Brooks<\/a>, 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

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO — \u2014 RJ Barrett scored a season\u2013high 31 points, Scottie Barnes added 17 and the Toronto Raptors…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-513046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513046","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=513046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}