{"id":345330,"date":"2025-12-14T20:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T20:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/345330\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T20:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T20:07:08","slug":"raptors-rj-barrett-remains-out-against-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/345330\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors&#8217; RJ Barrett remains out against Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As 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> return from a six-day layoff, a key player will remain out of the lineup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/rj-barrett\/42c5f009-dfd2-4a94-a750-0943791e138e\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"42c5f009-dfd2-4a94-a750-0943791e138e\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">RJ Barrett<\/a> won&#8217;t play Monday against the Miami Heat as he continues to nurse a right knee sprain, the Raptors announced on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Barrett was scheduled to be re-evaluated Monday after he received a platelet-rich plasma injection on week prior.<\/p>\n<p>The Raptors have struggled since Barrett went down during a Nov. 23 game against the Brooklyn Nets, losing six of nine.<\/p>\n<p>Barrett, of Mississauga, Ont., was enjoying a strong start to his season before being sidelined with averages of 19.4 points, 4.8 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 30.9 minutes in 17 games.<\/p>\n<p>He scored at least 20 points 10 times while firing at a 35.6 per cent rate from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Jamison Battle, who missed Tuesday&#8217;s NBA Cup quarterfinal loss to the New York Knicks, is listed as probable with a left knee sprain.<\/p>\n<p>Immanuel Quickley, who did not play in that game either due to illness, was off the injury report entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Toronto Raptors return from a six-day layoff, a key player will remain out of the lineup.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-345330","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\/345330","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=345330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}