Former New York Knicks wing RJ Barrett will miss his ninth consecutive game for the Toronto Raptors when the two teams play each other in Tuesday night\u2019s NBA Cup quarterfinals. On Monday, the Raptors announced that Barrett had received a \u201cplatelet-rich plasma injection\u201d for his sprained knee, and his status will be updated in a week.<\/p>\n
Although the Raptors said that Barrett has \u201ccontinued to progress\u201d in the statement \u2014 which confirms that time has continued to move forward and nothing else \u2014 he will miss two more games, if not more. After the Knicks game, the Raptors will play one more game, either the Cup semifinals or a game against the loser of the Orlando-Miami quarterfinals, and then will be off until Dec. 18 when they play the Bucks in Milwaukee. (They will have an extra game, the Cup final, if they win their next two games. That game does not count in the regular season standings.)<\/p>\n
While correlation does not equal causation, Barrett\u2019s injury, suffered on Nov. 23, neatly bisects the team\u2019s play this year. The Raptors were one of the league\u2019s best stories before the injury, and have been languishing since. (League-wide rankings are in parentheses.)<\/p>\n
Raptors through Nov. 23: 12-5 (sixth), 119.2 offensive rating (fifth), 57.3 effective field-goal percentage (third), 13.7 turnover percentage (sixth).Since Nov. 24: 3-5 (21st), 107.0 offensive rating (29th), 50.8 effective field-goal percentage (28th), 16.2 turnover percentage (25th)<\/p>\n
Barrett is averaging 19.4 points on 50.6 percent shooting, adding 4.8 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game. Second-year wing Ja\u2019Kobe Walter has most commonly started in his place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former New York Knicks wing RJ Barrett will miss his ninth consecutive game for the Toronto Raptors when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-338099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338099","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=338099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}