Raptors Lose 116-103 To Celtics
Posted November 27, 2009 10:15 pm.
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Ray Allen scored 20 points, Paul Pierce and Kendrick Perkins had 18 apiece, and the Boston Celtics beat the Toronto Raptors 116-103 on Friday night.
Rajon Rondo had 12 points and 11 assists as the Celtics won their third in a row for the first time since opening the season with six straight victories. Rasheed Wallace scored 15 points as a reserve, hitting three of his first four three-point attempts.
Chris Bosh had 20 points and 13 rebounds, Hedo Turkoglu also scored 20 points and reserve Jarrett Jack added 18 for Toronto. The Raptors have lost six of their last eight games, including a 116-81 loss to Charlotte on Wednesday night that was the worst in franchise history.
Turkoglu’s steal and dunk gave the Raptors a 61-57 lead with 10:39 left in the third quarter, but Boston scored the next 13 points.
Wallace, who picked up his fifth technical foul of the season in the second quarter, had been 9-for-54 from three-point range in his previous 10 games and had scored in double figures once in that span. But he made 3-of-6 on Friday and shot 6-for-11 from the floor overall.
Turkoglu had 25 points and 12 rebounds for the Orlando Magic last season in the decisive seventh game of the Eastern Conference semifinals to end Boston’s hopes of repeating as NBA champions. He went to the Raptors over the summer and is now pestering the Celtics from inside the division.
But while the Magic are once again jockeying for position with Boston near the top of the conference, the Raptors are looking up at the Celtics from in the Atlantic Division. Toronto is in second place, but with a 7-10 record that puts it 5 1/2 games behind Boston.
