{"id":437422,"date":"2026-01-27T23:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/437422\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T23:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:34:07","slug":"cavaliers-big-man-mobley-out-one-to-three-weeks-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/437422\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers big man Mobley out one to three weeks with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND \u2014 Cavaliers forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/evan-mobley\/d64b602e-45f2-4ba9-878b-0a4f7210ec77\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"d64b602e-45f2-4ba9-878b-0a4f7210ec77\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Evan Mobley<\/a> will be sidelined for the second time this season due to a strained left calf, the team said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning Defensive Player of the Year is expected to miss 1 to 3 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Mobley suffered the injury during Monday night&#8217;s\u00a0114-98 victory\u00a0over the Orlando Magic. He had tightness in the calf after the game and an MRI on Tuesday revealed the strain.<\/p>\n<p>Mobley missed five games in December with a Grade 1 strain of the calf. The fifth-year 7-footer is averaging 17.9 points and 8.8 rebounds in 40 games.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland enters Wednesday night&#8217;s game against LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers on its second four-game winning streak of the season and is a season-high eight games over .500 at 28-20. The Cavaliers depart for a season-long, five-game trip after hosting the Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>Mobley recorded his 500th blocked shot on Monday night, making the 24-year-old the youngest Cavs player to reach that milestone. He&#8217;s second in the league in blocks this season, averaging 2.0 per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014 Cavaliers forward Evan Mobley will be sidelined for the second time this season due to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-437422","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\/437422","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=437422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}