{"id":630065,"date":"2026-04-26T15:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630065\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T15:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:38:08","slug":"raptors-a-j-lawson-available-for-game-4-against-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630065\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors&#8217; A.J. Lawson available for Game 4 against Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/toronto-raptors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Raptors<\/a>&#8216; hometown favourites will be available for Game 4.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/a-j-lawson\/6bc71e02-9a03-40db-aed4-332ab5193336\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A.J. Lawson<\/a> is good to go against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday as the Raptors look to even the series at 2-2, head coach Darko Rajakovic <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/zulfi_sheikh\/status\/2048421835759349999?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">told reporters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson was listed as questionable with back spasms on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old averaged 9.5 minutes per game over Toronto&#8217;s first two playoff contests to go along with two points and two assists.<\/p>\n<p>In Game 3, Lawson played less than two minutes of garbage time as the Raptors opted to play Jamison Battle in his rotation spot instead.<\/p>\n<p>Raised in Brampton, Ont., Lawson averaged 4.2 points and shot 42.2 per cent from three over 24 games with the Raptors this season. His two-way contract was converted to a standard NBA deal with one game remaining in the regular season, making him eligible to play in the post-season.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson also represented the Raptors 905, Toronto&#8217;s G League affiliate, in the &#8220;Up Next&#8221; game at all-star weekend for the second consecutive season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the Toronto Raptors&#8216; hometown favourites will be available for Game 4. A.J. Lawson is good to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-630065","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\/630065","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=630065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}