It is a great comfort to an NBA team to have one player who can take a game by the scruff of the neck and make it his own.

Sort of like Brandon Ingram did for the Raptors on Monday night.

Seeing a game that was there for the taking, a game that needed someone to take command, Ingram exploded for his best offensive game in nearly two years to keep the Raptors rolling merrily along.

Ingram’s 37 points — the most he’d scored since he hung 41 on the Raptors as a member of the New Orleans Pelicans in 2024 — led Toronto to a 110-99 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers at Scotiabank Arena.

It was Toronto’s eighth straight victory and 12th in the last 13 games. It gave the Raptors a season sweep of the Cavaliers, kept them in second place in the Eastern Conference at 13-5 and keeps the posit

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