RJ Barrett leads red-hot Raptors past Clippers

TORONTO – Canadian RJ Barrett’s 20-point show led the Toronto Raptors past the Los Angeles Clippers 115-108 connected Sunday afternoon.

Barrett, from neighbouring Mississauga, Ont., added 7 assists and six rebounds arsenic Toronto (16-33) won for the eighth clip successful 10 games.

Scottie Barnes had 15 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists portion Jakob Poeltl registered a double-double with 10 points and 10 boards.

James Harden led Los Angeles (28-21) with 25 points, 7 assists and 5 rebounds. Former Raptors prima Kawhi Leonard had 14 points, six rebounds and 3 assists.

The NBA commercialized deadline is 3 p.m. ET connected Thursday. It’s inactive not wide if the red-hot Raptors volition beryllium buyers, sellers, oregon basal pat.

Toronto constituent defender Immanuel Quickley had 11 points and six assists successful 17 minutes of play time, but didn’t get connected the tribunal successful the 4th fourth aft playing lone 4:52 successful the third.

Takeaways

Clippers: Toronto played choky defence connected Harden and Leonard passim the game. Although the brace of all-stars led the Clippers’ offence, Harden was constricted to 35 per cent shooting from field-goal scope and Leonard changeable 33 per cent.

Raptors: Tied 61-61 astatine intermission, Toronto exploded for a 12-2 tally successful the 3rd to instrumentality an 18-point pb by the extremity of the quarter. Tough defence and a speedy modulation led to Barrett and Gradey Dick scoring six points connected 3 consecutive drives to the nett aft stymying L.A. astatine the different end. That run, punctuated by the Barrett-Dick combo forced the Clippers to instrumentality a timeout with 3:31 near successful the third.

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Key moment

Fans loudly booed the American nationalist anthem past cheered and joined the 15-year-old vocalist erstwhile “O Canada!” began. The beardown reactions were presumably successful effect to a mounting commercialized warfare betwixt Canada and the United States.

Key stat

Toronto changeable 52 per cent from three-point range, conscionable abbreviated of its erstwhile precocious of 54.2 per cent. That came earlier successful the Raptors’ blistery streak erstwhile Toronto bushed the Orlando Magic 109-93 connected Jan. 21.

Up next

Toronto hosts the New York Knicks connected Tuesday successful the 3rd crippled of their four-game homestand. The Clippers big recently acquired Luka Doncic and the Lakers successful an all-Los Angeles matchup connected Tuesday.

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Feb. 2, 2025.