{"id":358582,"date":"2025-12-20T23:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358582\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T23:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:24:07","slug":"jakob-poeltl-out-for-raptors-vs-celtics-rj-barrett-improving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358582\/","title":{"rendered":"Jakob Poeltl out for Raptors vs. Celtics, RJ Barrett improving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Starting centre Jakob Poeltl will miss the Toronto Raptors game against the Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was ruled out hours before the evening tipoff with a sore lower back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Raptors head coach Darko Rajakovic says that Canadian swingman RJ Barrett is improving, however.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Barrett has been out with a sprained right knee since Nov. 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Poeltl is averaging 10.1 points, eight rebounds and 2.3 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Barrett is averaging 19.4 points, 4.8 rebounds and 3.8 assists so far this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 20, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Starting centre Jakob Poeltl will miss the Toronto Raptors game against the Boston Celtics. He was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-358582","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\/358582","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=358582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}