{"id":287164,"date":"2025-11-15T23:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T23:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/287164\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T23:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T23:53:07","slug":"raptors-jamison-battle-ochai-agbaji-out-vs-pacers-due-to-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/287164\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors&#8217; Jamison Battle, Ochai Agbaji out vs. Pacers due to injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamison Battle and Ochai Agbaji have been ruled out against the Indiana Pacers due to injuries, the team announced pre-game.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sportsnet&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/michaelgrange\/status\/1989824815985741865\" rel=\"nofollow\">Michael Grange<\/a>, Battle&#8217;s injury flared up on Saturday morning and is considered &#8220;minor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Agbaji will miss his third consecutive game and four out of Toronto&#8217;s last five due to a back injury.<\/p>\n<p>A.J. Lawson, Alijah Martin, Jonathan Mogbo and Chucky Hepburn were already ruled out as they were on assignment with Raptors 905 in the G League.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t all bad news for the Raptors, however, as rookie Collin Murray-Boyles was upgraded to active for the game after entering the day as questionable due to illness, previously missing Thursday&#8217;s contest because of the ailment.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Pacers have been dealt a tough blow with many top players sidelined, including Tyrese Haliburton, who tore his right Achilles tendon during Game 7 of the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p>The team has also ruled out Aaron Nesmith, Quenton Jackson, Bennedict Mathurin, Johnny Furphy, Kam Jones and Obi Toppin.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, the Pacers sit at the bottom of the NBA standings with a 1-11 record.<\/p>\n<p>The Raptors will look to add to their strong stretch after going 6-1 over their last seven games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamison Battle and Ochai Agbaji have been ruled out against the Indiana Pacers due to injuries, the team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-287164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}