FINAL: Toronto Raptors 125, LA Clippers 118
The Toronto Raptors tied their franchise record with 47 fourth-quarter points on Monday, beating the LA Clippers 125-118 at Intuit Dome in Inglewood. Toronto trailed by 16 points, and by 13 entering the fourth, before outscoring Los Angeles 47-27 in the final 12 minutes.
How to watch: Toronto Raptors vs LA Clippers, Monday, November 2, 2026, 10:00 p.m. ET at Intuit Dome
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Three Flat Quarters, Then The Flood
For three quarters, this game followed the script of a scheduled loss. Toronto was playing the second night of a back-to-back, one night after a 131-125 loss to the Lakers in the same city, and doing it without two starters: Kawhi Leonard, out with swelling in his left knee, and Jakob Poeltl, sidelined by a shoulder injury. The Clippers led 33-22 after one quarter, 63-52 at halftime and 91-78 after three, with their biggest lead reaching 16 points in front of 16,044 at Intuit Dome.
The comeback was built on pressure at the rim rather than a run of threes. Toronto shot 51.8 per cent from the field, scored 62 points in the paint and attempted 48 free throws as Los Angeles committed 34 personal fouls. In the fourth quarter, all of it arrived at once: 47 points, the lead changing hands for good, and Scottie Barnes closing the game at the line, making free throws with 17 seconds, nine seconds and one second remaining. Raptors Republic summed up the shape of the night in its quick reaction: “Somehow, some way, the Raptors pulled out the win in Los Angeles.”
The Raptors Fourth-Quarter Record, Matched
A 47-point fourth quarter has happened once before in Raptors history, and the company is famous. On December 22, 2019, Toronto trailed the Dallas Mavericks by 30 points late in the third quarter, then outscored Dallas 47-21 in the fourth to win 110-107, with Kyle Lowry scoring 20 of his 32 points in the final frame. It remains the largest comeback win in franchise history, and its 47 points stood alone as the most the Raptors had ever scored in a fourth quarter. The franchise record for any single quarter is 49, reached in a first quarter against Denver in March 2023 and matched in a third quarter at Utah in March 2026.
Monday’s 47 ties that fourth-quarter mark under very different conditions: on the road, on the second night of a back-to-back, and without two starters. It also completes a strange Los Angeles double. Toronto scored 43 points in the fourth quarter against the Lakers on Sunday night and lost; 24 hours later it scored 47 in the fourth against the Clippers and won. Ninety fourth-quarter points across two nights in the same city is not a game plan any coach draws up, but it is a clear picture of a team that now believes a deficit is a temporary state, not a verdict.
Quickley, Barrett And Barnes Split The Work
No single Raptor carried the comeback, which is part of why it held. Immanuel Quickley scored a game-high 27 points on 8-for-13 shooting, going 10-for-11 at the free throw line. RJ Barrett added 26 points on 10-for-19 shooting and finished a team-best plus-18. Barnes posted the most complete line of the night: 22 points, 15 rebounds, eight assists and two steals, plus the closing free throws that kept Los Angeles at arm’s length in the final seconds.
The supporting work mattered as much. Collin Murray-Boyles, starting as a small-ball centre with Poeltl out, scored 18 points with seven rebounds. Jamison Battle hit four of his six three-pointers for 12 points, and Jamal Shead added six assists off the bench. For the Clippers, Kobe Sanders scored 26 points with five threes, Isaiah Jackson added 19 on 9-for-11 shooting, and Darius Garland had 16 points and eight assists against seven turnovers. Los Angeles was short-handed as well, with Bradley Beal, Brandon Ingram and Rui Hachimura all inactive, but a 16-point home lead is a 16-point home lead, and the Clippers let it go in 12 minutes.
What It Means On The Road Trip
The win ends Toronto’s two-game slide, after losses to Orlando on Friday and the Lakers on Sunday, and lifts the Raptors to 4-3. The Clippers fall to 1-6 with a sixth straight defeat, a start that makes their own injury list harder to carry by the week. Toronto’s four-game road trip continues on Wednesday, November 4, against the Denver Nuggets at Ball Arena (9 p.m. ET, TSN), before a stop in Milwaukee on Friday.
A record tied in early November does not hang a banner, and nobody in Toronto will pretend otherwise. But fourth quarters like this one are how teams announce their habits. Down two starters, on tired legs, in a building where they had trailed all night, the Raptors produced the joint-best closing quarter in the history of the franchise and walked out with the win. That is the standard they now have to chase for the rest of the trip.
