New York Knicks @ Toronto Raptors
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM ET
Scotiabank Arena, Toronto, ON | Game ID: 22400713
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
TOR 34 17 35 29 115NYK 30 38 30 23 121
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Towns has 27 points and 20 rebounds as Knicks win eighth straight over Raptors, 121-115
TORONTO -- — Karl-Anthony Towns had 27 points and 20 rebounds, Jalen Brunson scored 28 points and the New York Knicks held on to beat the Toronto Raptors 121-115 on Tuesday night for their eighth win in 10 games.
Mikal Bridges and Precious Achiuwa each scored 17 points as the Knicks won their eighth straight meeting with the Raptors. Josh Hart added 15 points as all five Knicks starters reached double digits.
Towns had nearly half of New York’s 43 total rebounds. The veteran big man has had two 22-rebound games this season. He had a career-high 27 rebounds against New Orleans on Jan. 12, 2019.
Scottie Barnes scored 23 points and Jamal Shead had a career-high 16 for the short-handed Raptors. Toronto played without leading scorer RJ Barrett (concussion protocol) and lost center Jakob Poeltl (right hip) at halftime.
Poeltl had five points and two rebounds in 15 minutes but did not return for the second half.
Takeaways Knicks: OG Anunoby didn’t play against his former team. Anunoby sat for the second straight game because of a sprained right foot.
Raptors: Barrett stayed in the game after a heavy fall in the second half of Sunday’s home win over the Clippers. He practiced Monday before starting to experience symptoms on Monday evening.
Key moment Toronto trailed by 23 points before cutting the deficit to one, 112-111, with 3:17 left in the fourth, but Brunson’s pull-up 3 with 26 seconds remaining sealed it for the Knicks.
Key stat Towns had 20 points and 15 rebounds in the first half. The entire Raptors team combined for 12 rebounds in the first two quarters.
Up next Toronto hosts Memphis on Wednesday night, while the Knicks return home to host Boston on Saturday night. ------
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Who
Who is who
the initials in the Players column
NYKAH A. Hukporti
CP C. Payne
JB J. Brunson
JH J. Hart
KT K. Towns
MB M. Bridges
MM M. McBride
PA P. Achiuwa
TORBB B. Brown
GD G. Dick
IQ I. Quickley
JM J. Mogbo
JP J. Poeltl
JS J. Shead
JW J. Walter
KO K. Olynyk
OA O. Agbaji
OR O. Robinson
SB S. Barnes
NYK/TOR the team itself, not a player
-- the feed named nobody
What
What happened
the codes in the Events column
M2 / M3 made 2 / made 3
X2 / X3 missed 2 / missed 3
FT / X1 free throw made / missed
AST assist
OR / DR offensive / defensive rebound
STL steal
BLK block
TO turnover
FL foul
OF offensive foul — ends the possession
VIOL violation
JUMP jump ball
TM timeout
IR instant replay
HE heave at the buzzer, filed to the team
Where
Where a shot came from
the middle field of M3.LW.25
RM at the rim inside 4 ft
RC right corner
RW right wing
SO straight on
LW left wing
LC left corner
M3.LW.25 made 3, left wing, 25 ft
X2.RM.01 missed 2, at the rim, 1 ft
When
When it happened
the Offset column
one number per event, in the Events order:
whole seconds from the start of the
possession to that event
Events FL X3.RC.23 OR M2.RM.01
Offset 0 18 22 24
the foul opens the possession at 0s;
the putback ends it at 24s, which is
the possession's own Dur