{"id":316958,"date":"2025-11-30T19:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/316958\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T19:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:19:09","slug":"raptors-jakob-poeltl-out-against-knicks-with-back-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/316958\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors&#8217; Jakob Poeltl out against Knicks with back injury"},"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> will look to bounce back without their starting centre.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"e1b3d3d5-b4b1-481a-b5b9-efe4231f48bf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/jakob-poeltl\/e1b3d3d5-b4b1-481a-b5b9-efe4231f48bf\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jakob Poeltl<\/a> will miss Sunday&#8217;s against the New York Knicks due to lower-back injury management, the Raptors announced.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old centre has been battling a lingering issue for nearly a month after leaving a game with tightness in his lower back on Oct. 27. Poeltl has played in 15 of the team&#8217;s 20 games.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in Saturday&#8217;s 118-108 loss against Charlotte, posting eight points, 11 rebounds and nine assists in 32 minutes. <\/p>\n<p>For the season, Poeltl is averaging 10.5 points and 8.3 assists per game while shooting 72.8 per cent from the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Raptors will look to bounce back without their starting centre. Jakob Poeltl will miss Sunday&#8217;s against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-316958","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\/316958","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=316958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}