Overview
- Backup guard Jamal Shead scored a career-high 19 points with five assists and played the entire fourth quarter to help close the game.
- Darko Rajakovic kept Immanuel Quickley off the floor in crunch time, saying Shead had earned the closing role.
- Toronto's second unit — notably Shead, Gradey Dick, Collin Murray-Boyles and Ja'Kobe Walter — combined for about 50 points to drive the comeback.
- Collin Murray-Boyles returned from a quarantine-related absence to collect 12 rebounds, including seven on the offensive glass.
- RJ Barrett sat for knee management and Jakob Poeltl was ruled out at least a week with back issues as Toronto improved to 2-6 on the second night of back-to-backs.