Saturday night featured a plethora of NBA action including the Philadelphia 76ers visiting the Toronto Raptors. The young team from Philly still found themselves winless after the final buzzer sounded as the home team delivered a blowout. Here's the Sixers vs. Raptors game recap with top players, stats, a standings update, and the next games on the schedule for each of these NBA teams.
PHI vs. TOR recap
The Toronto Raptors got off to a strong start in the first quarter with a 36-19 scoring pace. In the second quarter, Philadelphia chipped into the lead a little bit going 30-26 to finish down 62-49 at the half.
The third quarter saw another outburst from Toronto as they had a 40-22 edge and then closed it out with a 26-23 fourth. The end result was a blowout of the Sixers 128-94.
Demar Derozan led the Raptors tonight with an 8-of-12 shooting performance as well as going 14-for-16 from the charity stripe. He'd finish with 30 points to lead all players on his squad. Kyle Lowry had 17 points five assists, and five rebounds, while Jakob Poeltl and Delon Wright each had 14 points off the Raptors' bench. Lucas Nogueira had 10 points and nine rebounds off the bench as well.
The Philadelphia 76ers had another strong performance from their rookie Ben Simmons who had a near triple-double. Simmons shot 7-of-16 and had 18 points to lead all Sixers players in scoring while also collecting 10 rebounds and dishing out eight assists.
Jerry Bayless scored 16 points on 5-of-7 shooting, while Jahlil Okafor came off the bench to give 10 points and get nine rebounds. Marcelo Fultz shot just 1-of-5 and finished with six points while Joel Embiid didn't play. The Sixers big man will not be participating in back-to-back games in the near term.
For the game, Toronto shot at a rate of 47.2 percent overall and 29.5 percent from downtown.
The Philadelphia 76ers had a 39 percent shooting night with 33.3 percent of their threes going in. The Raptors also won the rebounding battle 51-41 for the night and limited turnovers to just 13 while the visitors had 20 in the game.
What's up next?
Tonight's loss drops the Philadelphia 76ers to 0-3 to start their season with an 0-2 record on the road.
The team tries to capture their first win of the season on Monday night when they visit the Detroit Pistons at 7 PM ET.
The Toronto Raptors are now 2-0 to start off their season and look to be among the top three or four teams in the Eastern Conference so far. They'll try to make it 3-0 when they take on the Spurs in San Antonio on Monday night at 8:30 PM ET.