{"id":585694,"date":"2026-04-04T20:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/585694\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T20:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T20:54:08","slug":"celtics-nikola-vucevic-finger-upgraded-for-raptors-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/585694\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics&#8217; Nikola Vucevic (finger) upgraded for Raptors game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2ca761df-5f60-b2e9-22ed-e099c46d889b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-celtics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Celtics<\/a> center <a data-player-guid=\"2c9b229f-cbd5-8e0b-cf3a-236f74f23867\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/6478\/nikola-vucevic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikola Vucevic<\/a> was upgraded to questionable for Sunday&#8217;s game against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"5a9c33b8-63fd-ff34-a833-925fe89320a6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-raptors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> one month after undergoing surgery for a fractured right ring finger.<\/p>\n<p>Vucevic has appeared in just 12 games for Boston after he was acquired in a trade from the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e588ccf1-ba03-ea43-c34c-9a9c8d1895ca\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/chi\/chicago-bulls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bulls<\/a>. The 15-year NBA veteran is averaging 10.4 points and 7.2 rebounds in 21.7 minutes per game for the Celtics.<\/p>\n<p>The Celtics also added two-way wing <a data-player-guid=\"8e9ebe9a-aaad-56a4-2419-8c9dc50a74d2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4397251\/ron-harper-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Harper Jr<\/a>. to a new two-year deal on Saturday, his agent Drew Gross of WME Basketball told ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<p>Harper, the son of former NBA player Ron Harper, has been apart of the Celtics&#8217; rotation at times this season while also spending time starring for their Maine G League affiliate team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics center Nikola Vucevic was upgraded to questionable for Sunday&#8217;s game against the Toronto Raptors one month&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-585694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585694","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=585694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}