TORONTO — — RJ Barrett scored a season–excessive 31 factors, Scottie Barnes added 17 and the Toronto Raptors beat the struggling Dallas Mavericks 122-92 on Sunday.
Jakob Poeltl had 16 factors and 10 rebounds and Sandro Mamukelashvili scored 13 factors because the Raptors snapped a four-game shedding streak towards Dallas.
Daniel Gafford had a season-high 21 factors and 11 rebounds, Cooper Flagg scored 17 factors and Brandon Williams added 16 however the slumping Mavericks misplaced their seventh straight and seventeenth of 19.
Brandon Ingram and Ja’Kobe Walter every scored 11 factors, and Immanuel Quickley and Gradey Dick each had 10 as Toronto gained for the primary time in 5 house video games.
Barrett handed 8,000 profession factors, changing into the eighth Canadian participant to achieve the milestone. Barrett, 25, is the youngest of that group, which incorporates energetic gamers Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Dillon Brooks, plus former two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash.
Flagg shot 7 for 17 in his third sport since getting back from an eight-game absence attributable to a sprained left foot. He had eight rebounds and 6 assists.
No. 1 general decide within the 2025 NBA draft, Flagg earned the primary technical foul of his profession with 9:28 to play within the fourth quarter after arguing a non-call on his drive to the basket.
Gafford shot 10 for 10 and made his solely free–throw try.
The Mavericks are 7-24 on the street.
Toronto got here in having misplaced 4 of its earlier 5.
Dallas didn’t rating on the quick break till the fourth and the Raptors had a 21-4 benefit in fast-break factors. However, Dallas was plus-15 (27-12) in second-chance factors.
Neither group shot properly from distance. Toronto went 10 for 36 from 3-point vary whereas Dallas completed 5 for 30.
The Raptors transformed 20 Dallas turnovers into 27 factors.
Mavericks: At Atlanta on Tuesday.
Raptors: At Houston on Tuesday.
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