Fred VanVleet had a game-high 35 points and eight assists as the Toronto Raptors survived a late comeback effort from Detroit to take a 119-118 victory over the Pistons on Sunday.
It was VanVleet's ninth 30-point game of the season, setting a career mark. His previous high was eight in 2021-22.
Bojan Bogdanovic scored a team-high 33 points for Detroit . Alec Burks and Hamidou Diallo added 21 and 18 points, respectively, off the bench. But Precious Achiuwa went 1-for-2 from the charity stripe afterwards to give the Raptors a four-point lead, good to keep Toronto ahead for the win despite another Ivey three with 0.1left.
In the second, Barnes kick-started a short-lived 5-0 Raptors run, hitting a three-pointer followed by a steal that led to a Siakam fast break dunk to go up 39-34 three minutes in.
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