The game between the Toronto Raptors and Miami Heat will take place at Scotiabank Arena on Tuesday, March 28 at 7:30 PM ET.
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The Toronto Raptors will welcome the Miami Heat to Scotiabank Arena for an NBA game on Tuesday. The Toronto Raptors won 114-104 in their last game over the Wizards. O.G. Anunoby scored 29 points, Fred VanVleet had 28 and the Toronto Raptors never trailed in a 114-104 win over Washington Wizards on Sunday. Pascal Siakam had 19 points and 11 rebounds and Jakob Poeltl had 12 points and 12 rebounds.
Anunoby had 11 made baskets, two shy of his career-high. All four of his 3-pointers came in the first quarter. “O.G. obviously had it going tonight,” Raptors coach Nick Nurse said. Ninth-place Toronto clinched the three-game season series with the Wizards and maintained a three-game lead over 11th-place Washington in the Eastern Conference standings. Both teams have seven games remaining.
Toronto and Atlanta have identical 37-38 records, but the Hawks won two of three against the Raptors this season to clinch the tiebreaker. Scottie Barnes scored 13 points in his return to the starting lineup after missing two games because of a sore left wrist as the Raptors won for the ninth time in 10 home games.
The Miami Heat on the other hand lost 100-129 against the Nets in their last game. Max Strus scored 23 for the Heat, all of them in the first half. Tyler Herro scored 23, Jimmy Butler had 18 and Bam Adebayo finished with 16 for the Heat. Miami was outscored 64-31 after halftime. Strus came off the bench and made his first nine shots, one of them putting Miami up 51-37 midway through the second quarter.
Over the next 14 minutes, the Nets outscored Miami 54-24 — completely turning the game around, eventually leading by 32 and, for now, putting Brooklyn in position to escape the play-in tournament that’ll decide the final two East playoff berths. “You see how this March Madness is and you’re one and you’re done,” Vaughn said. “And that’s part of it. I have not discussed any of the standings with this group. Really, we have gone day to day and tried to get a win.”
“We have not been defending at a world-class level, the way we’re capable of … and the second half just became an avalanche,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. The Heat could have moved 1 1/2 games up on Brooklyn for sixth with a win. “There has been nothing easy about this season and that doesn’t necessarily mean that has to be a negative thing,” Spoelstra said. “You have to embrace the struggle. You have to figure out ways to stay together … but we just got categorically outplayed tonight.”
Toronto Raptors: OG Anunoby, Pascal Siakam, Jakob Poeltl, Fred VanVleet, Scottie Barnes
Miami Heat: Jimmy Butler, Kevin Love, Bam Adebayo, Tyler Herro, Gabe Vincent
Toronto Raptors: Dalano Banton, Joe Wieskamp, Ron Harper Jr., Gary Trent Jr., Will Barton, Otto Porter Jr.
Miami Heat: Kyle Lowry
The game between the Toronto Raptors and Miami Heat will take place at Scotiabank Arena on Tuesday, March 28 at 7:30 PM ET.
The match between the Toronto Raptors and Miami Heat will be telecast live on TNT.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | TNT. | March 28 (7:30 PM ET) |
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