OG Anunoby, Knicks spoil RJ Barrett’s revenge game with narrow win over Raptors

TORONTO — RJ Barrett was on the brink of a statement performance, a revenge game against the team he felt no longer wanted him around.

Barrett drove to the hoop with 29 seconds remaining, his Raptors trailing by two.

Already with a game-high in points, Barrett’s opportunity was three feet away from completion.

Instead, it was OG Anunoby, the player swapped for Barrett almost a year ago, who was the hero Monday night.

Anunoby jumped behind Barrett and rejected the attempt for a moment that was emblematic of the big trade.

“This is OG’s game, man,” Karl-Anthony Towns said of Anunoby’s first game back at Scotia Bank Arena. “It meant a lot to him. And we wanted to make sure we got that for him. … OG is one of the best two-way players in the NBA. So I don’t know why we would expect anything less from him.”