{"id":414256,"date":"2026-01-17T00:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/414256\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T00:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:50:07","slug":"raptors-immanuel-quickley-out-friday-vs-clippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/414256\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors&#8217; Immanuel Quickley out Friday vs. Clippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/immanuel-quickley\/cb0b5991-53e4-4dce-bf95-215fd6ecf728\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Immanuel Quickley<\/a> won&#8217;t play against the Los Angeles Clippers due to back spasms, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BlakeMurphyODC\/status\/2012295419376644597?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sportsnet&#8217;s Blake Murphy<\/a>. This will be Quickley&#8217;s second consecutive missed game after being sidelined for Wednesday&#8217;s win over the Indiana Pacers.<\/p>\n<p>He joins fellow starters RJ Barrett and Jakob Poeltl on the bench. Barrett has already missed Toronto&#8217;s last three games after twisting his ankle in a loss to the Boston Celtics last week. <\/p>\n<p>Poeltl is set to miss a 13th consecutive contest due to his lingering back problems and has yet to suit up since a six-minute stint back on Dec. 21. There is no update on Poeltl&#8217;s status.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just trying to find the best way to get him back on the court,\u201d head coach Darko Rajakovic said, per <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BlakeMurphyODC\/status\/2012296871381737683?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Murphy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ja&#8217;Kobe Walter (hip) and Chucky Hepburn (two-way) have also been ruled out against the Clippers. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sandro Mamukelashvili (illness) and Garrett Temple (back spasms) will return on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>The 25-17 Raptors sit fourth in the Eastern Conference. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Immanuel Quickley won&#8217;t play against the Los Angeles Clippers due to back spasms, according to Sportsnet&#8217;s Blake Murphy.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-414256","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\/414256","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=414256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}