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The Toronto Raptors made it two straight in Las Vegas on Monday, beating the Indiana Pacers 94-93 at Thomas & Mack Center — and the final margin came down to Seth Lundy getting a hand on Rienk Mast‘s potential game-winner with two seconds on the clock.

Lundy led Toronto with 22 points on 8-of-13 shooting, his second straight 20-point game after scoring 23 in Saturday’s win over Houston. His three-pointer with 1:50 to play cut Indiana’s lead to 93-91, and Jaden Bradley did the rest at the line — drawing fouls, tying the game at 93, then putting Toronto ahead by one. Bradley finished with 15 points and five rebounds, Tyreke Key added 16 off the bench, and Allen Graves stuffed the margins with 13 points, six assists, five rebounds and four steals.

From a scouting chair, Lundy’s week is what Summer League exists to surface. He is defending, shooting off movement, and now closing games at the rim on the other end — a two-way wing profile Toronto has real reason to evaluate closely, since the roster picture behind the starters stays unsettled while the Kawhi Leonard trade remains on hold pending the league’s Clippers investigation. Auditions like this one are how camp invitations turn into contracts.

Toronto is 2-1 in Vegas after the opening overtime loss to Boston, with the Pacers game the second straight where the bench and the closing defense, rather than one hot scorer, decided it.

For fantasy purposes this is dynasty-watchlist material rather than redraft news: Lundy is stacking the kind of 3-and-D performances that earn regular-season minutes on a wing-thin roster, and back-to-back 20-point games make him a name to file in deep leagues. Bradley’s foul-drawing and Graves’ stat-sheet breadth matter for two-way and camp-battle watchers, not October drafts.

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