{"id":630220,"date":"2026-04-26T17:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T17:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630220\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T17:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T17:26:09","slug":"toronto-raptors-forward-a-j-lawson-back-available-to-play-in-game-4-vs-cleveland-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630220\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors forward A.J. Lawson (back) available to play in Game 4 vs. Cleveland Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 A.J. Lawson of Brampton, Ont., has been cleared to play for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/toronto-raptors\/28\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/toronto-raptors\/28\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> in today\u2019s matinee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was listed as questionable with back spasms ahead of Game 4 of Toronto\u2019s playoff series with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/cleveland-cavaliers\/5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/cleveland-cavaliers\/5\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Head coach Darko Rajakovic said in a pre-game news conference that Lawson was available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lawson is averaging 1.3 points, 1.3 assists and 0.3 blocks for the Raptors in this series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was promoted from a two-way contract to a full NBA deal ahead of the post-season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cleveland leads the best-of-seven series 2-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 26, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 A.J. Lawson of Brampton, Ont., has been cleared to play for the Toronto Raptors in today\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,82,3302],"class_list":["post-630220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630220","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=630220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}