{"id":350410,"date":"2025-12-15T22:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/350410\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T22:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:17:07","slug":"raptors-rj-barrett-scheduled-to-begin-return-to-play-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/350410\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors&#8217; RJ Barrett scheduled to begin return to play activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/rj-barrett\/42c5f009-dfd2-4a94-a750-0943791e138e\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"42c5f009-dfd2-4a94-a750-0943791e138e\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">RJ Barrett<\/a> is scheduled to begin return to play activities this week as he continues to progress from a right knee sprain, the team announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll be out for Monday&#8217;s game against the Miami Heat, but his status for games on Thursday against the Milwaukee Bucks and Saturday against the Boston Celtics remains uncertain. <\/p>\n<p>Barrett has missed the Raptors&#8217; last nine games since suffering the knee injury against the Brooklyn Nets on Nov. 23. He received a platelet-rich plasma injection last week. <\/p>\n<p>The Raptors have struggled since Barrett went down, losing six of nine, including their last four in a row.  <\/p>\n<p>The Mississauga, Ont., native was enjoying a strong start to his season before being sidelined with averages of 19.4 points, 4.8 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 30.9 minutes in 17 games.<\/p>\n<p>He scored at least 20 points 10 times while firing at a 35.6 per cent rate from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wing RJ Barrett is scheduled to begin return to play activities this week as he continues to progress&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-350410","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\/350410","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=350410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}