Immanuel Quickley scored a team-high 24 points, helping the visiting Toronto Raptors post a 104-102 victory over the Orlando Magic on Sunday.
RJ Barrett added 22 points, while Jakob Poeltl had 16 points and 11 rebounds, as the Raptors snapped a three-game losing streak. Jamal Shead chipped in 12 points off the bench, and Scottie Barnes scored 10.
Franz Wagner’s 25 points led Orlando, followed by Paolo Banchero’s 23 and Wendell Carter Jr.’s 14. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scored 12 points for the Magic, who dropped their third in a row.
Orlando trailed 104-92 with less than three minutes left but scored the next 10 points and pulled within two with four seconds remaining. Wagner missed a potential game-tying layup on the final possession, as Toronto escaped with the win.
After leading by a point at halftime, Toronto’s cushion grew to 61-56 on Jonathan Mogbo’s dunk midway through the third quarter. Caldwell-Pope’s five straight points knotted the score at 61, before Shead’s three-point play gave the Raptors a 64-61 lead.
Jonathan Isaac’s free throws with less than three minutes remaining in the third quarter gave Orlando its first lead since the first, but Toronto finished the quarter on a 12-1 run — including Quickley’s nine points — as the Raptors took an 81-72 lead into the final quarter.
Toronto continued its momentum and grew its lead to 92-74 after Quickley’s jumper stamped a 9-0 run with 9:26 left.
Cory Joseph’s triple pulled the Magic within 15 at the 6:47 mark, but neither team connected on a field goal until Wagner’s layup more than three minutes later that cut the Raptors’ lead to 102-89. Banchero followed with a 3-pointer, but Barnes’ layup pushed Toronto’s advantage to 104-92.
Orlando shot just 25 percent (5-for-20) from the field and trailed the Raptors 27-19 after the first quarter.
Poeltl’s layup gave Toronto a 36-26 advantage, before Wagner’s four straight points and Banchero’s mid-range jumper pulled Orlando within four at the 7:13 mark of the second quarter. After Barrett’s free throw pushed the Raptors’ advantage to 48-45 with 42 seconds left, Wagner’s layup cut the Magic’s halftime-deficit to one.
–Field Level Media
