{"id":437123,"date":"2026-01-27T20:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T20:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/437123\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T20:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T20:11:07","slug":"raptors-collin-murray-boyles-questionable-against-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/437123\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors&#8217; Collin Murray-Boyles questionable against Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rookie forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/collin-murray-boyles\/7b169c92-2d4d-4218-9557-4e0ec1b43378\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"7b169c92-2d4d-4218-9557-4e0ec1b43378\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Collin Murray-Boyles<\/a> was upgraded to questionable for Wednesday&#8217;s game against the New York Knicks, head coach Darko Rajakovic <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BlakeMurphyODC\/status\/2016209997261136374\" rel=\"nofollow\">told reporters<\/a> after practice on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Murray-Boyles, who is battling a thumb injury, went through an extended play group at practice, with next steps being to determine how he feels coming out of that.<\/p>\n<p>The ninth-overall pick last year was named on Monday to the NBA&#8217;s Rising Stars game for all-star weekend in February.<\/p>\n<p>He has been a steady contributor for the 29-19 Raptors, with averages of 7.8 points, 5.1 rebounds, two assists and 0.9 steals on 53.6\/34.9\/64.2 per cent shooting splits through 37 games.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/jakob-poeltl\/e1b3d3d5-b4b1-481a-b5b9-efe4231f48bf\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"e1b3d3d5-b4b1-481a-b5b9-efe4231f48bf\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jakob Poeltl<\/a> also returned to the floor, though in a non-contact capacity. He is considered day-to-day as he continues to manage back pain, per Rajakovic.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old centre has played just seven minutes since Dec. 15 thanks to the injury that has plagued him throughout the season.<\/p>\n<p>In 21 games, he is averaging 9.7 points and 7.7 rebounds per contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rookie forward Collin Murray-Boyles was upgraded to questionable for Wednesday&#8217;s game against the New York Knicks, head coach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-437123","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\/437123","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=437123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}