{"id":406166,"date":"2026-01-13T08:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T08:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/406166\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T08:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T08:50:10","slug":"toronto-raptors-forward-barnes-named-nba-eastern-conference-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/406166\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors forward Barnes named NBA Eastern Conference player of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768294210_651_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJan 12, 2026 | 2:56 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 Toronto Raptors forward Scottie Barnes has been named the NBA Eastern Conference player of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes averaged a team-high 22 points, 6.3 rebounds, six assists and 36.4 minutes in three games, all Raptors wins. He missed Toronto\u2019s 125-117 loss at Boston on Friday with a right knee sprain.<\/p>\n<p>He ended his week with 31 points, eight assists and seven rebounds, including the winning free throw, in a 116-115 overtime win over visiting Philadelphia on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes, who was named player of the week for the second time in his career, is averaging 19.4 points, 8.4 rebounds, 5.3 assists, 1.4 blocks, 1.3 steals and 34.2 minutes in 39 games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Canadian Press Jan 12, 2026 | 2:56 PM TORONTO \u2014 Toronto Raptors forward Scottie Barnes has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-406166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406166","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=406166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}