{"id":919631,"date":"2026-10-03T23:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T23:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/919631\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T23:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T23:34:13","slug":"kawhi-leonard-held-out-of-raptors-pre-season-game-against-heat-in-quebec-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/919631\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawhi Leonard held out of Raptors\u2019 pre-season game against Heat in Quebec City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791070453_501_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Toronto Raptors Kawhi Leonard and Jakob Poeltl, during NBA basketball training camp action in Quebec City, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jacques Boissinot<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tOct 3, 2026 | 4:02 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>QU\u00c9BEC \u2014 Kawhi Leonard wasn\u2019t in the Toronto Raptors\u2019 lineup for Saturday\u2019s pre-season game against the Miami Heat in Quebec City.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard, who helped the Raptors win the 2019 NBA championship, was traded back to Toronto from the Los Angeles Clippers this past summer.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s NBA game at the Videotron Centre was the first in Quebec City.<\/p>\n<p>Raptors head coach head coach Darko Rajakovic told reporters before the game Leonard wouldn\u2019t play and also likely won\u2019t Oct. 10 against the Clippers in Vancouver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors Kawhi Leonard and Jakob Poeltl, during NBA basketball training camp action in Quebec City, Thursday, Oct.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":919632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-919631","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\/919631","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=919631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}