{"id":645948,"date":"2026-05-03T00:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/645948\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T00:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:44:13","slug":"raptors-brandon-ingram-questionable-for-game-7-vs-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/645948\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors&#8217; Brandon Ingram questionable for Game 7 vs. Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"toronto-raptors\" data-league=\"nba\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/toronto-raptors\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> have listed Ingram as questionable for Sunday&#8217;s winner-take-all game against the Cleveland Cavaliers, the team announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Ingram was ruled out for the Raptors&#8217; thrilling Game 6 win on Friday due to right heel inflammation. He was spotted in a walking boot after the game. <\/p>\n<p>The star forward reaggravated the injury in the second quarter of Wednesday&#8217;s Game 5 road loss. <\/p>\n<p>With one game off between Game 5 and Game 6, the Raptors said his heel did not improve despite a day of rest. <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6394392962112-640x360.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Raptors-Cavaliers Game 7 on Sportsnet\"\/>Raptors-Cavaliers Game 7 on Sportsnet<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to RJ Barrett&#8217;s heroics, the Toronto Raptors have forced a Game 7 against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday. Watch the winner-take-all game live on Sportsnet ONE and Sportsnet+ starting at 7:30 p.m. ET \/ 4:30 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/watch.sportsnet.ca\/sportschedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Broadcast schedule<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ingram has averaged 12 points in the series and had a 23-point performance in Toronto&#8217;s Game 4 victory Sunday. Ingram was 0-for-2 from the field and had one point, one rebound, and two assists in 11 minutes on Wednesday before departing.<\/p>\n<p>With Ingram out in Game 6, Ja&#8217;Kobe Walter saw an increase in minutes and stepped up in a major way. <\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Walter scored 24 points on 4-of-9 shooting from three in 43 minutes, and helped the Raptors keep their season alive with a 112-110 win in overtime. <\/p>\n<p>The series shifts back to Cleveland for Game 7 on Sunday (Sportsnet ONE and Sportsnet+, 7:30 p.m. ET \/ 4:30 p.m. PT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Raptors have listed Ingram as questionable for Sunday&#8217;s winner-take-all game against the Cleveland Cavaliers, the team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-645948","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\/645948","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=645948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}