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| Bargnani, Raptors rout Pacers to end skid |
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03/15/2009 |
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| Toronto, ON (MySportsbook) - Andrea Bargnani led all scorers with 27 points and added nine rebounds as the Toronto Raptors snapped a season-high seven- game losing skid with a 110-87 rout of the Indiana Pacers at Air Canada Centre. Pops Mensah-Bonsu chipped in with a career-high 21 points to go along with eight boards for Toronto, which regrouped from a 99-95 overtime loss to Detroit of Friday. The Raptors improved to 13-19 at home. "Chris Bosh. I think he anchored us today," Mensah-Bonsu said. "I'm definit |
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| Pacers' Granger returns from foot injury |
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03/15/2009 |
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| Toronto, ON (MySportsbook) - Indiana Pacers All-Star forward Danny Granger returned for Sunday's 110-87 loss to the Toronto Raptors after missing the last 11 games with a partially torn tendon in the sole of his right foot. He scored 10 points in 18:39 of game action. Granger, who appeared in his first All-Star Game this season, suffered the injury in the Raptors' 103-94 loss to Charlotte on Feb. 18. In his fourth season, Granger was averaging a career-high 25 points and five rebounds this season prior to t |
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| Pistons host Grizzlies at the Palace |
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03/15/2009 |
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| NBA title under his auspices. Most recently, the Pistons stayed one-half game in front of Philadelphia for the sixth spot in the Eastern Conference when Richard Hamilton scored 24 points and a career-high 16 assists as the Detroit Pistons edged the Toronto Raptors, 99-95, in overtime at the Air Canada Centre. Rodney Stuckey had 17 points and five rebounds while Antonio McDyess added 16 points and 13 rebounds for the Pistons, who have won five of their last seven games. The Grizzlies, meanwhile, fell to 0-2 on |
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| Pacers, Raptors square off in Toronto |
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03/15/2009 |
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| ana Pacers hope to make a run at the Eastern Conference's final playoff spot, they need to start handling their business better on the road. The team will have an opportunity to do exactly that on Sunday afternoon when they take on the disappointing Toronto Raptors at Air Canada Centre. The Pacers dropped the opener of a short two-game road swing and fell to a miserable 9-27 as the visitor this season on Friday in Atlanta when Joe Johnson led all scorers with 30 points as the Hawks topped Indiana, 101-87, at P |
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| Hamilton leads Pistons past Raptors in OT |
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03/13/2009 |
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| Toronto, ON (MySportsbook) - Richard Hamilton had 24 points and a career- high 16 assists as the Detroit Pistons edged the Toronto Raptors, 99-95, in overtime. Rodney Stuckey had 17 points and five rebounds while Antonio McDyess added 16 points and 13 rebounds for the Pistons, who have won five of their last seven games. "We are still finding ourselves again," said Hamilton. "I think most importantly tonight we really trusted ourselves. In overtime we just trusted everybody, we trusted that guys would be in |
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| Pistons to pay struggling Raptors a visit |
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03/13/2009 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The Detroit Pistons will hit the road tonight to play the Toronto Raptors at Air Canada Centre. The Pistons, who are seeded sixth in the Eastern Conference, have lost two of their last three games and suffered a 116-111 overtime loss to the New York Knicks on Wednesday. Antonio McDyess had a career-high 22 rebounds to go with 21 points for the Pistons, whose skid comes on the heels of a four-game winning streak. Tayshaun Prince ended with 25 points and 10 rebounds in the setback. Rodney Stu |
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| Young's 29 lead Sixers past Raptors |
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03/11/2009 |
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| Philadelphia, PA (MySportsbook) - Thaddeus Young starred for Philadelphia, dropping a career-high 29 points to lead the 76ers past the struggling Toronto Raptors, 115-106, at the Wachovia Center. Young shot an impressive 13-of-20 from the field, while Samuel Dalembert scored a season-best 19 to go with 13 rebounds for Philly, which had lost seven of 10 since the All-Star break. "This was a good bounce back game," Sixers head coach Tony DiLeo said. "We came out with energy and defensive intensity. Any time w |
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| Slumping Sixers open homestand with Raptors |
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03/11/2009 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The Philadelphia 76ers haven't been able to find their rhythm since the All-Star break, but will try to regroup tonight versus the Toronto Raptors at the Wachovia Center in the opener of a three-game homestand. The 76ers have lost seven of 10 games since the break and three of their last four, including an 89-74 setback to the lowly Oklahoma City Thunder Sunday at the Ford Center. Thaddeus Young and Andre Miller each had 20 points for the Sixers, who shot just 39.4 percent from the floor in |
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| Williams leads Jazz to 11th straight win |
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03/08/2009 |
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| Toronto, ON (MySportsbook) - Deron Williams posted 25 points and nine assists, and the Utah Jazz used a big fourth quarter to get the best of the Toronto Raptors, 109-101, for their 11th straight win. Mehmet Okur and Paul Millsap each grabbed 11 boards to go with 19 and 18 points respectively for Utah, which got solid bench production from Kyle Korver and Andrei Kirilenko. Korver hit 6-of-10 from the field en route to a 20-point, eight-rebound effort, while Kirilenko scored nine of his 18 points in the game |
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| Jazz go for 11th straight win at Toronto |
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03/08/2009 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The Utah Jazz will take their 10-game winning streak to the road for five straight games, starting with Sunday's matchup against the Toronto Raptors at Air Canada Centre. Utah, which is sixth in the Western Conference standings, kept the winning streak alive with a 97-91 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Friday in Salt Lake City. Deron Williams poured in 25 points and handed out 11 assists to lead the Jazz, who have also won 11 straight at home. Ronnie Brewer added 16 points, while Mehmet |
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