{"id":488309,"date":"2026-02-20T19:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/488309\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T19:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:40:08","slug":"raptors-scottie-barnes-misses-practice-for-personal-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/488309\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors&#8217; Scottie Barnes misses practice for personal reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/scottie-barnes\/1738927f-6ef3-4b23-921d-168b4371f917\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"1738927f-6ef3-4b23-921d-168b4371f917\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Scottie Barnes<\/a> was excused from the workout in Chicago for personal reasons, Sportsnet&#8217;s Michael Grange <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/michaelgrange\/status\/2024922520223187214\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes&#8217; status for Sunday&#8217;s game against the Milwaukee Bucks will be updated on Saturday, per Grange.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes played 33 minutes with 14 points, nine rebounds and five assists in the Raptors&#8217; 110-101 win over the Chicago Bulls on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The game marked a rare full roster for the Raptors, who were not missing any regulars to injury or other absences.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto sits fifth in the Eastern Conference at 33-23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottie Barnes was excused from the workout in Chicago for personal reasons, Sportsnet&#8217;s Michael Grange reported. Barnes&#8217; status&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-488309","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\/488309","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=488309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}