{"id":203716,"date":"2025-10-10T22:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T22:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/203716\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T22:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T22:26:07","slug":"raptors-resting-starters-in-pre-season-tilt-vs-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/203716\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors resting starters in pre-season tilt vs. Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/toronto-raptors\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-raptors\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> will rest their projected starting five for their pre-season matchup at home against the Boston Celtics on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Darko Rajakovic stated he will use the minutes to get more looks at players trying to crack the bottom half of the roster.<\/p>\n<p>Ingram scored a game-high 21 points on Wednesday during the Raptors&#8217; 130-122 win over the Denver Nuggets. He has played 55 minutes over the first two games after missing most of last season with an ankle injury. <\/p>\n<p>Barnes was on the floor for 19 minutes during the Raptors&#8217; 112-108 loss during the pre-season opener, recording just one point on 0-for-6 shooting. He also sat out the second game in Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Poeltl is dealing with a back issue and will continue to rest. He has yet to suit up for a contest in the pre-season.<\/p>\n<p>Tip-off is set for 7:00 p.m. ET \/ 4:00 p.m. PT on Sportsnet One and Sportsnet+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Raptors will rest their projected starting five for their pre-season matchup at home against the Boston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-203716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}