Al Harrington talk trash to Kleiza late as the Nuggets held on to beat the Raps

So the Raptors have not learned anything from Bargnani's injury as they for the eighth game in a row the Raps were down big after the first quarter 28-12 and were down 16 points and were down 22 points @ half 54-32 and were down as much as 23 points. In the third quarter behind James Johnson's 12 third quarter points as the Raptors outscored the Nuggets 32-24 and started the fourth quarter on a 10-2 run to cut the lead to 6 points @ 80-74 which happened @ 9:37 point and they only scored 7 points the rest of the fourth quarter and got outscored 16-7 during this time and the Nuggets won 96-81.

While the game was whining down Kleiza missed a three and Al Harrington talked junk to him all the way back down the court and Harrington pushed his teammate Rudy Fernandez into Kleiza and then Harrington had his teammates hold him back while he tried to get @ Kleiza and after the Refs went to the watch a replay of the incident and decided to give technical fouls to Kleiza of the Raps and to Al Harrington and NeNe both of the Nuggets.

The Raps got 16 points from James Johnson (7 of 10 from the floor) but fouled out 6 minutes into the fourth quarter while the rest of the starting 5 were 7 of 34 from the floor which is under 21% from the floor with DeRozan going 1 of 12 from the floor until he got two late buckets and Jose Calderon went 3 of 10 with only 2 assists and Kleiza lead the Raps with 4 of the Raptors 21 assists and second on the Raps with 8 boards behind Arron Grey's 11 boards who only played 15 minutes. The bench outscored the starters 46-35 with Jerryd Bayless scoring 18 points (7-10 from the floor and 4 of 5 from beyond the arc) in 16 and a half minutes and Barbosa had 19 points (7 of 13 from the floor and 4 of 5 from the line).

Danilo Gallinari had 21 points and 7 boards while NeNe had 20 points and 10 boards and Andre Miller had 13 points and 12 assists and Rudy Fernandez had 23 points (9 of 11 from the floor and 5 of 7 from beyond the arc).

Raps to face the almost Brooklyn Nets in Newark, New Jersey on Sunday

Tom Mehegan