{"id":518476,"date":"2026-03-04T16:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/518476\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:38:09","slug":"harrison-barnes-misses-first-game-since-2021-after-waking-up-from-a-nap-with-an-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/518476\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrison Barnes misses first game since 2021 after waking up from a nap with an injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"anchor-652e6c\" class=\"body-graf\">PHILADELPHIA \u2014 San Antonio forward Harrison Barnes missed his first game since 2021 because he woke up from a pregame nap with a sore left ankle.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-ebb748\" class=\"body-graf\">Barnes&#8217; streak of 364 straight games played ended Tuesday night against the Philadelphia 76ers. He missed his first game since Dec. 4, 2021, when he played with Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-c41c5c\" class=\"body-graf\"><a href=\"https:\/\/link.nbcnews.com\/join\/5cj\/the-sports-desk-signup-web\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up for NBC News\u2019 The Sports Desk newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-d3be18\" class=\"body-graf\">Barnes was a surprise late addition to the injury report. Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said only that Barnes reported soreness when he woke up from the nap and received pregame treatment from the medical staff.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-3a65d3\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">New York&#8217;s Mikal Bridges has the longest active consecutive games streak at 616. Barnes also trailed only Bridges for most total games played since 2021 with 382.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2014 San Antonio forward Harrison Barnes missed his first game since 2021 because he woke up from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-518476","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\/518476","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=518476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}