Brooklyn Nets at Toronto Raptors: TV, live stream info; injury report
By Phil Watson
Wednesday night, the Brooklyn Nets face the Toronto Raptors at Bell Centre in Montreal. Here’s how to watch or stream the game, plus up-to-date injury data.
The Brooklyn Nets venture to Canada Wednesday night to face the Toronto Raptors, with the plot twist being that they will not be in T.O., but rather the game is at Bell Centre in Montreal as part of the NBA Canada Series.
The Nets have never played in Montreal, while the Raptors are playing there for the first time since holding a preseason game in the arena annually from 2012-15. Toronto has never lost at Bell Centre.
Brooklyn (1-1) comes in off a 110-108 overtime win Monday night against the Detroit Pistons at Little Caesars Arena, the first of three straight road games for the Nets to close out the preseason.
Toronto (2-1) last played on Friday, a 120-82 victory over Melbourne United, a National Basketball League club from Australia, at its usual home venue, Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.
The Raptors swept the Nets last season, taking all four meetings — not a surprise since Toronto was a 59-win team that had the best record in the Eastern Conference while Brooklyn won 28 games and missed the playoffs for the third consecutive year.
In regular season play, Toronto leads the Nets 50-39 in the all-time series and has won 12 games in a row dating to the Nets’ last win over the Raptors on April 3, 2015. The teams haven’t met in the preseason since before the Nets moved to Brooklyn in 2012.
That last preseason meeting was in 2006 in Toronto.
The Raptors made some major changes in the offseason, firing NBA Coach of the Year Dwane Casey and promoting former assistant Nick Nurse to the top spot.
Toronto also traded All-Star DeMar DeRozan and young big man Jakob Poeltl to the San Antonio Spurs to get former two-time Defensive Player of the Year Kawhi Leonard and shooter Danny Green.
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Brooklyn will rest veterans Ed Davis and DeMarre Carroll on Wednesday, per Brian Lewis of the New York Post.
Atkinson is going to sit Ed Davis and DeMarre Carroll tonight. Both are fine, but he just wants to give minutes to Kenneth Faried in his #Nets debut & get a longer look at rookie Rodions Kurucs, who has been good so far.
— Brian Lewis (@NYPost_Lewis) October 10, 2018
Here is the pertinent information for the matchup.
Brooklyn Nets vs. Toronto Raptors, 7 p.m. Eastern
Bell Center, Montreal, Quebec
TV: YES Network
Live stream: NBA League Pass
Season series: First meeting
Injuries
Brooklyn: Rondae Hollis-Jefferson (left adductor strain), Allen Crabbe (sprained left ankle), Shabazz Napier (straight right hamstring), Alan Williams (sprained left ankle) — all OUT, per Brian Lewis of the New York Post.
Toronto: Norman Powell (bruised thigh) — OUT, per Josh Lewenberg of TSN.ca.
Last (preseason) meeting
Oct. 15, 2006, at Toronto: Seven Raptors scored in double figures, led by P.J. Tucker‘s 18 points, and the Raptors beat the New Jersey Nets at Air Canada Centre, 119-110.
Rookie Marcus Williams led New Jersey with 16 points and nine assists in a game that was delayed by six minutes by a power outage in the arena during the fourth quarter.
After the delay, coaches Lawrence Frank of the Nets and Sam Mitchell of the Raptors agreed to play remaining few minutes of the game under dimmed lights, per the Associated Press.
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What’s next?
Brooklyn: at New York, Friday (ends preseason)
Toronto: at New Orleans, Thursday (ends preseason)