{"id":237870,"date":"2025-10-24T22:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T22:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/237870\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T22:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T22:08:08","slug":"raptors-collin-murray-boyles-out-for-home-opener-vs-bucks-jakobe-walter-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/237870\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors&#8217; Collin Murray-Boyles out for home-opener vs. Bucks, Ja&#8217;Kobe Walter in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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> fans will have to wait a little bit longer to see their first-round pick in action. <\/p>\n<p>Rookie forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/collin-murray-boyles\/7b169c92-2d4d-4218-9557-4e0ec1b43378\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"7b169c92-2d4d-4218-9557-4e0ec1b43378\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Collin Murray-Boyles<\/a> has been ruled out of Friday&#8217;s home-opener against the Milwaukee Bucks as he continues to deal with a forearm injury, head coach Darko Rajakovic announced ahead of tip-off. <\/p>\n<p>Rajakovic added that second-year wing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/jakobe-walter\/3d186345-1517-446d-b4bf-8707fc77f093\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"3d186345-1517-446d-b4bf-8707fc77f093\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ja&#8217;Kobe Walter<\/a> will be making his season debut after missing the season-opener against the Atlanta Hawks with an illness. <\/p>\n<p>Murray-Boyles suffered the injury in pre-season and missed the final exhibition game against the Sacramento Kings last Friday. According to Rajakovic, he is &#8220;progressing well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The South Carolina product averaged 6.7 points, 3.7 rebounds and 2.7 assists in three pre-season contests. Against the Sacramento Kings on Oct. 8, Murray-Boyles scored 12 points, pulled down seven boards, recorded six assists and blocked two shots.<\/p>\n<p>Walter, meanwhile, suited up in 52 games during his rookie season, averaging 8.6 points, 3.1 rebounds and 1.6 assists while shooting 34.9 per cent from three-point range. He averaged 7.2 points, 2.3 rebounds and 2.7 assists in 18.7 minutes over six pre-season games. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors fans will have to wait a little bit longer to see their first-round pick in action.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-237870","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\/237870","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=237870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}