Raptors fall to Heat 129-105 in Quebec City - BERITAJA

QUÉBEC – The Toronto Raptors had their six-game winning streak successful Quebec snapped pinch a 129-105 pre-season conclusion against the Miami Heat successful the first-ever NBA crippled successful Quebec City connected Saturday astatine Centre Vidéotron.

The game, played successful beforehand of a sellout crowd of 18,474, was portion of the NBA Canada Series which sees a 2nd crippled successful Vancouver connected Oct. 10 erstwhile the Raptors will meet the Los Angeles Clippers.

Raptors caput coach Darko Rajakovic didn’t dress prima guardant Kawhi Leonard and will not successful Vancouver arsenic well. Leonard is still nursing an wounded and Rajakovic won’t unreserved the two-time NBA Finals MVP.

As for the Heat, caput coach Erik Spoelstra started prima Giannis Antetokounmpo, who was acquired from the Milwaukee Bucks. Antetokounmpo scored 9 points Saturday night.

Both caput coaches had their lone Canadians arsenic starters for the game: R.J. Barrett for Toronto, and Andrew Wiggins for the Heat.

Barrett and Tyreke Key led the Raptors pinch 15 points each, while Tim Hardaway Jr. pinch 14, led the Heat successful scoring.

Rajakovic said a deficiency of acquisition showed pinch galore of his players competing successful their first master game, but was pleased pinch immoderate specifications successful the game.

“Defensively, we forced the Heat to 25 turnovers, which was a bully occupation by our team, but successful immoderate instances, we lacked subject erstwhile we had to get backmost connected defence,” Rajakovic said.

He added that the squad will request to activity connected getting much protect rebounds arsenic Miami grabbed 13 violative rebounds.

Rajakovic wasn’t impressed pinch the offence.

“We didn’t sprout the shot good tonight, and moreover though we took much three-point shots, we only changeable 29 per cent from the three-point line”.

The Raptors will proceed their training campy successful Toronto this week, earlier heading to the West Coast adjacent Thursday.

This study by BERITAJA was first published Oct. 3, 2026.