{"id":490946,"date":"2026-02-22T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/490946\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T00:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:01:10","slug":"raptors-scottie-barnes-ruled-out-vs-bucks-for-personal-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/490946\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors&#8217; Scottie Barnes ruled out vs. Bucks for personal reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Star forward <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> has been ruled out for the team&#8217;s road game against the Milwaukee Bucks due to personal reasons, the Raptors announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/michaelgrange\/status\/2025286935648796819\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sportsnet&#8217;s Michael Grange<\/a>, Barnes was previously questionable to play on Sunday in Milwaukee after being excused from practice on Saturday, before ultimately being ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old has been one of Toronto&#8217;s top producers all season, averaging 19.2 points, 8.4 rebounds, 5.6 assists, 1.3 steals and 1.6 blocks through 55 games this season. <\/p>\n<p>Barnes, now a two-time all-star, leads the Raptors in rebounds, steals, blocks and minutes per game, while ranking second in points and assists. The defensive anchor also leads the NBA in stocks (steals + blocks) this season with 159.<\/p>\n<p>As for the Raptors, they are 0-1 without Barnes in the lineup this season. Toronto will also be without two-way players Chucky Hepburn, Alijah Martin and A.J. Lawson.<\/p>\n<p>The Raptors visit the Bucks on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. ET \/ 12:30 p.m. PT, looking to win back-to-back road games coming out of the all-star break before heading into a home back-to-back against the Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star forward Scottie Barnes has been ruled out for the team&#8217;s road game against the Milwaukee Bucks due&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-490946","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\/490946","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=490946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490946\/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=490946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}