{"id":625078,"date":"2026-03-01T18:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T18:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/625078\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T18:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T18:04:11","slug":"raptors-take-control-in-the-second-half-and-hand-the-wizards-their-4th-straight-loss-134-125","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/625078\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors take control in the second half and hand the Wizards their 4th straight loss, 134-125"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Ingram added 24 points for the Raptors, who rebounded from back-to-back home losses to Western Conference contenders Oklahoma and San Antonio earlier in the week. Toronto is in fifth place in the East, now three games clear of the play-in group.<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Immanuel Quickley had 27 points and 11 assists to lift the Toronto Raptors to a 134-125 victory over the Washington Wizards on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Ingram added 24 points for the Raptors, who rebounded from back-to-back home losses to Western Conference contenders Oklahoma and San Antonio earlier in the week. Toronto is in fifth place in the East, now three games clear of the play-in group.<\/p>\n<p>Will Riley scored 19 points for Washington, which lost its fourth straight game after beating Indiana twice in a row coming out of the All-Star break.<\/p>\n<p>The Wizards remain without newly acquired Anthony Davis (finger) and Trae Young (knee, quad), and 7-footer Alex Sarr (hamstring) didn\u2019t play either. Collin Murray-Boyles (thumb) did not play for Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Washington led by three in the middle of the third quarter before an 11-2 Toronto run capped by Ingram\u2019s 3-pointer. The Raptors were up 98-92 after three and pushed the lead into double digits early in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>All five Toronto starters scored at least 18 points. RJ Barrett contributed 21, and Scottie Barnes scored 18 and Jakob Poeltl had 18 with 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Bilal Coulibaly and Kyshawn George scored 14 points each for the Wizards. Washington shot 16 of 34 from 3-point range, but Toronto countered by going 42 of 63 inside the arc.<\/p>\n<p>Washington signed former Maryland standout Julian Reese to a two-way contract earlier Saturday. He was not active.<\/p>\n<p>The Wizards lost despite a 64-26 advantage in bench scoring.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Raptors: Host New York on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Wizards: Host Houston on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright<br \/>\n                        \u00a9\u00a02026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brandon Ingram added 24 points for the Raptors, who rebounded from back-to-back home losses to Western Conference contenders&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":625079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[24139,85455,37352,1260,62,3126,67,132,68,3117],"class_list":["post-625078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-brandon-ingram","tag-immanuel-quickley","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-washington-wizards"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116155243930275548","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}