The Oklahoma City Thunder survived the injured Utah Jazz in OKC on Wednesday behind an impressive 35 points, 14 rebounds, and 3 blocks by Chet Holmgren to come away with a 119-107 victory over the Jazz. Holmgren continues to be a solid piece next to Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Jalen Williams, and the Thunder appear to be gearing up for a quality postseason.
Before they can get to the first round of the playoffs, however, they have to finish out the regular season, and with just 14 games to go, they travel to Toronto on Friday night to take on the Raptors.
The Raptors are missing RJ Barrett and Immanuel Quickley to personal reasons, and Scottie Barnes recently broke his hand. Without those three, Toronto is severely lacking true playmakers, so the Thunder should be able to get in, take care of business, and move on to Milwaukee where they will take on the Bucks on Sunday.
Tip-Off: 6 PM CT
Location: Scotiabank Arena (Toronto, Canada)
Television: KSBI
Radio: WWLS 98.1FM OKC The Sports Animal
Twitter: Follow @ZacharyLowNBA for live tweets and discussion during the game
Game Notes: Oklahoma City Thunder Official Game Notes, Toronto Raptors Official Game Notes
Projected Starters
Thunder
- PG: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
- SG: Josh Giddey
- SF: Luguentz Dort
- PF: Jalen Williams
- C: Chet Holmgren
Raptors
- PG: Bruce Brown
- SG: Gary Trent
- SF: Gradey Dick
- PF: Ochai Agbaji
- C: Kelly Olynyk
Injury Report
Thunder
- Ousmane Dieng is OUT (G League — on assignment).
- Adam Flagler is OUT (G League — two-way).
- Keyontae Johnson is OUT (G League — two-way).
- Olivier Sarr is OUT (G League — two-way).
Raptors
- Scottie Barnes is OUT (fractured third metacarpal in left hand).
- RJ Barrett is OUT (personal reasons).
- Chris Boucher is OUT (partial MCL tear in right knee).
- D.J. Carton is OUT (sprained right ankle).
- Jakob Poeltl is OUT (torn ligament in fifth finger of left hand).
- Immanuel Quickly is OUT (personal reasons).
Head-to-Head
- Since arriving in Oklahoma City in 2008, the Thunder are 16-12 against the Raptors in the regular season (8-8 at home, 8-4 on the road).
- Since arriving in Oklahoma City in 2008, the Thunder has won the regular season series with the Raptors 5 times, lost it once, and tied it 9 times.
- The Thunder went 1-1 against the Raptors last season (1-0 at home, 0-1 on the road).
- The Thunder are 1-0 against the Raptors so far this season (1-0 at home, 0-0 on the road).