{"id":584457,"date":"2026-04-05T20:18:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/584457\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T20:18:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:18:17","slug":"celtics-nikola-vucevic-returning-vs-raptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/584457\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics&#8217; Nikola Vucevic returning vs. Raptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/boston-celtics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Celtics<\/a> trade-deadline acquisition will be back in the lineup on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Centre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/nikola-vu%C4%8Devi%C4%87\/7366b2b7-5959-4dd9-9204-760e861b3119\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikola Vucevic<\/a> will return against the Toronto Raptors (3:30 p.m. ET \/ 12:30 p.m. PT on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+), the team <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/celtics\/status\/2040850330599002142?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vucevic has been sidelined since suffering a fractured right ring finger against the Dallas Mavericks on March 6. He required surgery to repair the fracture. <\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old Montenegrin averaged 10.4 points and 21.7 minutes in 12 games with Boston after coming over from the Chicago Bulls. <\/p>\n<p>The Celtics sit second in the Eastern Conference and have already clinched a spot in the postseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Celtics trade-deadline acquisition will be back in the lineup on Sunday. Centre Nikola Vucevic will return&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-584457","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\/584457","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=584457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}