Eric Koreen

"No excuses, but I'd say this tournament ball is a little slippery." - Sandro Mamukelashvili on his tough night finishing (and good night rebounding)

Raptors become first team to advance to knockout round of NBA Cup

The Raptors are Cup crazy!

"I think it's awesome. I think our guys deserve the opportunity to compete in that set-up." - Darko on the Raps advancing to the knockout round.

'Topes win! 140-110. Group A is theirs, as they will move on to the NBA Cup quarterfinals.

24/8/6 for Ingram, 24/8/4 for Barrett, 23 apiece for Scottie and Mamu, 10 assists in 16 minutes for Shead.

Nelly Furtado is here. And they're playing Maneater! Banger.

The Raptors casually put up a 48-point quarter. It's 105-77 after 3.

21 for RJ, 19 apiece for BI and Scottie. 18 for McCollum.

The Nets, in Toronto on Sunday, present another such test.

Holy crap the Raptors went 9:40 without picking up a team foul in the 3rd!

I'll say this: These Wizards are the type of team you could pick up some bad habits playing against, and the Raptors are more or less playing responsible basketball.

They have the sixth-lowest turnover percentage in the league.

Not an especially sharp end of the quarter for the Raps, but they lead 57-47 at the half. 12 apiece for Ingram and Quickley. Tre Johnson has 12 for the Wiz.

Set up the 20 space laser salute!

Just 3 points from WALTER, but he's made a few hustle plays to help Raps get extra possessions tonight. Seems to be putting it together a little bit.

Cavs up 62-55 at the half. Raps win + Cavs win = Raps winning their group.

No, but I almost always mute commercials

TORONTO — Group A? More like Group Eh!

The Toronto Raptors became the first team to advance in the 2025 NBA Cup when they...

Raps lead 31-20 after a quarter. Jamal Shead has four assists in five minutes. Quickley leads all scorers with 7. Wizards have that 35/10/75 shooting split.

Corey Kispert still being on the Wizards seems like a mistake of some sort.

You crazy for this one.

More like Bub Hairington.

Brandon Ingram seems to like passing to Jakob Poeltl.

There should be big-screen graphics about my dog

Terrible? Amazing? Am I jealous? Not sure across the board.

friendster?

The Raps just had a graphic about WALTER that they called "Walternative rock."

Normal starters for Raps. McCollum, George, Coulibaly, Middleton and Vukcevic for Los Wiz

While I don't *like* the Raptors Cup court, it is not deeply offensive in person. Which leads me to ask the question: Did anybody in the league turn on all the lights and look at these courts through a television screen at any point?

The Wizards' Marvin Bagley III (right hip contusion), AJ Johnson (right ankle contusion) and Alex Sarr (sore left big toe) will not play tonight in Toronto.

With a higher assist%, too!