{"id":550096,"date":"2026-03-21T00:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T00:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/550096\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T00:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T00:24:08","slug":"raptors-collin-murray-boyles-out-vs-nuggets-very-close-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/550096\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors&#8217; Collin Murray-Boyles out vs. Nuggets, &#8216;very close&#8217; to return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/toronto-raptors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> will be without their top rookie for at least one more game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/collin-murray-boyles\/7b169c92-2d4d-4218-9557-4e0ec1b43378\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Collin Murray-Boyles<\/a> won&#8217;t play against the Denver Nuggets on Friday (9:00 pm ET \/ 6:00 pm PT on Sportsnet One and Sportsnet+) as he continues to deal with a thumb injury, Darko Rajakovic <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/michaelgrange\/status\/2035137939353583947?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">told<\/a> reporters. <\/p>\n<p>Despite sitting on Friday, Murray-Boyles is very close to returning, as he is participating in live scrimmages and reconditioning, Rajakovic added.<\/p>\n<p>This will be Murray-Boyles&#8217; 10th consecutive missed game, since he exited a Feb. 25 game against the San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>The rookie out of South Carolina has dealt with his thumb injury for much of the season, causing him to miss a handful of games. He suffered the initial injury on Dec. 15 against the Miami Heat and re-aggravated the issue in late January against the Lakers, missing four games as a result.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old is averaging 7.8 points and five rebounds per game on 55.7 per cent shooting in 22 games played this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Raptors will be without their top rookie for at least one more game. Collin Murray-Boyles won&#8217;t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-550096","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\/550096","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=550096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}