Granger leads Pacers past Raptors

AP News | 2010-02-03 02:06:06

<div id="subtitle">Granger scores 23 as Pacers beat Raptors 130-115 to snap Toronto's 5-game win streak</div><div><p>Danny Granger scored 23 points and the Indiana Pacers snapped the Toronto Raptors' five-game winning streak with a 130-115 victory on Tuesday night.</p><p>Troy Murphy had 20 points and 14 rebounds for Indiana, which ended a three-game skid. Roy Hibbert had 18 points and nine boards, and Earl Watson added 15 points and a season-high 11 assists.</p><p>Lester Conner coached the Pacers in place of Jim O'Brien, who attended a family funeral.</p><p>Chris Bosh had 35 points and 15 rebounds, and Andrea Bargnani scored a career-high 34 points for the Raptors.</p><p>It was a season scoring high for the Pacers, who had scored fewer than 100 points in six of their previous nine games. They lost 117-102 in Toronto on Sunday.</p><p>Indiana made 33 of 35 free throws and shot 52 percent from the field. It was just the fifth time the Pacers shot better than 50 percent this season.</p><p>Indiana led 58-53 at halftime and opened the second half with an 18-8 surge, capped by Murphy's 3-pointer. Brandon Rush's 3 extended Indiana's lead to 20 points just over 5 minutes into the third quarter.</p><p>The Pacers shot 76 percent and scored 42 points in the third, one point short of its season high for a single period. Eight different players scored for the Pacers in the quarter.</p><p>Bargnani helped keep the Raptors in the game with 19 points in the third. Dahntay Jones made two free throws with 1 second left in the period to put the Pacers up 100-86.</p><p>NOTES: Toronto F Hedo Turkoglu sat out with a fractured bone under his right eye. ... Pacers F Tyler Hansbrough missed his eighth straight game with an inner ear infection. ... Toronto G Jose Calderon left in the fourth quarter with a sprained right ankle. ... Toronto F Marco Belinelli scored 14 points in the first quarter and finished with a season-high 21. ... Indiana's reserves outscored their counterparts 41-21.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=68360735&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>


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