Russell leads Lakers past Raptors; Toronto’s losing skid stretches to 14

D’Angelo Russell scored 25 factors and added seven assists because the Los Angeles Lakers rolled previous the Toronto Raptors 128-111 on Tuesday.

LeBron James had 23 factors and 9 assists as Los Angeles (43-33) received back-to-back video games. Anthony Davis had a double-double with 21 factors and 12 rebounds.

RJ Barrett of Mississauga, Ont., led all scorers with 28 factors, including six assists and 6 boards as Toronto (23-52) misplaced its 14th sport in a row. Immanuel Quickley had 20 factors and 6 assists.

Both gamers returned to the Raptors’ lineup after lacking a number of video games as they mourned the deaths of family members.

Quickley took a depart after his uncle Shawn Hamilton died of most cancers on March 20, lacking six video games. Barrett, whose 19-year-old brother Nathan Barrett died on March 14, missed 9 video games.

The Raptors dropped 17 consecutive video games in the course of the 1997-98 season for the longest shedding streak in franchise historical past.

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Bruce Brown (proper knee soreness) left the sport within the fourth quarter and didn’t return. His damage was simply the most recent in a sequence of well being setbacks for Toronto.

Although the Raptors are mathematically eradicated from the post-season, they nonetheless have some stakes left within the season.

Toronto’s first-round choose on this summer season’s NBA Draft is conditional, following a commerce with the San Antonio Spurs final season for Jakob Poeltl. The Raptors have the sixth-worst report within the NBA but when the draft lottery on May 12 shuffles them to seventh or increased that choose goes to San Antonio.

Hundreds of yellow Lakers jerseys dotted the decrease bowl at Scotiabank Arena on Tuesday, with James — a surefire Hall of Famer — getting an enormous ovation when he jogged onto the court docket for warm-ups and once more when he and Davis have been named throughout pre-game introductions.

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Quickley and Barrett had an instantaneous influence, scoring Toronto’s first eight factors of the sport and aiding on the Raptors’ subsequent 4 factors, all scored by rookie Gradey Dick.

Despite that sizzling begin, the Lakers closed out the primary quarter on an 8-0 run to take a 34-25 lead. Barrett had 9 factors within the opening interval and Quickley had eight.

L.A. led by as many as 13 factors within the second quarter, however Toronto narrowed that hole with a 9-3 run to complete the half. Barrett led all scorers within the second with 10 factors even because the Lakers held a 64-58 benefit at intermission.

Davis and James had 9 factors apiece within the third because the Lakers blew the sport broad open, with a 17-5 run within the last 4 minutes of the quarter lifting the guests to a 100-79 lead. Barrett introduced the sold-out crowd of 19,800 to their toes with a thunderous dunk with 2.1 seconds left within the interval for his twenty sixth level of the sport.

Los Angeles, making an attempt to achieve floor within the aggressive Western Conference playoff chase, didn’t let up within the fourth quarter, main by as many as 32 factors. Lakers head coach Darvin Ham put all his starters on the bench with six minutes left to play and Raptors head coach Darko Rajakovic adopted go well with, with each groups giving their depth gamers prolonged time on the court docket.

SOUTH ASIAN HERITAGE NIGHT — The Raptors celebrated the Greater Toronto Area’s South Asian communities all through the sport, with musical performances and dance numbers. That included Subhadra Vijayakumar enjoying the nationwide anthems on a South Indian carnatic violin, a halftime efficiency by Punjabi-Canadian singer Jazzy B, and a timeout efficiency by Tamil Canadian mridamgist Yanchan Produced.

UP NEXT — Toronto visits the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday.

The Lakers proceed their East Coast swing on Wednesday with a cease in Washington, D.C.