Granger scores 23 as Pacers beat Raptors 130-115 to snap Toronto’s 5-game win streak

Granger leads Pacers past Raptors

INDIANAPOLIS — Danny Granger scored 23 points and the Indiana Pacers snapped the Toronto Raptors’ five-game winning streak with a 130-115 victory on Tuesday night.

Troy Murphy had 20 points and 14 rebounds for Indiana, which ended a three-game skid. Roy Hibbert had 18 points and nine boards, and Earl Watson added 15 points and a season-high 11 assists.

Lester Conner coached the Pacers in place of Jim O’Brien, who attended a family funeral.

Chris Bosh had 35 points and 15 rebounds, and Andrea Bargnani scored a career-high 34 points for the Raptors.

It was a season scoring high for the Pacers, who had scored fewer than 100 points in six of their previous nine games. They lost 117-102 in Toronto on Sunday.

Indiana made 33 of 35 free throws and shot 52 percent from the field. It was just the fifth time the Pacers shot better than 50 percent this season.

Indiana led 58-53 at halftime and opened the second half with an 18-8 surge, capped by Murphy’s 3-pointer. Brandon Rush’s 3 extended Indiana’s lead to 20 points just over 5 minutes into the third quarter.

The Pacers shot 76 percent and scored 42 points in the third, one point short of its season high for a single period. Eight different players scored for the Pacers in the quarter.

Bargnani helped keep the Raptors in the game with 19 points in the third. Dahntay Jones made two free throws with 1 second left in the period to put the Pacers up 100-86.

NOTES: Toronto F Hedo Turkoglu sat out with a fractured bone under his right eye. … Pacers F Tyler Hansbrough missed his eighth straight game with an inner ear infection. … Toronto G Jose Calderon left in the fourth quarter with a sprained right ankle. … Toronto F Marco Belinelli scored 14 points in the first quarter and finished with a season-high 21. … Indiana’s reserves outscored their counterparts 41-21.