Pascal Siakam had 40 points and 13 rebounds and the Toronto Raptors beat the hottest team in the Eastern Conference on Monday in Toronto, downing the Boston Celtics 115-112 in overtime.
Fred VanVleet and OG Anunoby scored 14 points apiece, while Gary Trent Jr. and Thaddeus Young finished with 12 apiece, and Scottie Barnes chipped in with 10 for the Raptors (43-32), winners of nine of their last 11 games.
Marcus Smart had 28 points to top the East-leading Celtics (47-29), who saw their six-game win streak come to a halt.
The Raptors trailed by 11 points in the first quarter of Monday's rough-and-tumble game. They finally took their first lead late in the second, and paced the Celtics basket for basket though a third quarter that saw neither team lead by more than three points. The score was tied 80-80 through three quarters before a capacity crowd of 19,800 that included Canada's World Cup-bound men's soccer team.
Payton Pritchard's three-pointer early in the fourth had Boston up by seven, but Young replied with five straight points and VanVleet knocked down back-to-back threes, to ear-splitting cheers from the crowd, and it was a one-point game with 3:08 to play.
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