{"id":946204,"date":"2026-10-25T22:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T22:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946204\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T22:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T22:22:11","slug":"raptors-kawhi-leonard-out-vs-timberwolves-with-knee-swelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946204\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors&#8217; Kawhi Leonard out vs. Timberwolves with knee swelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/toronto-raptors\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-raptors\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> will be down a key piece in their biggest test so far early in the season.<\/p>\n<p>Forward <a data-player=\"c12fb587-fc86-471c-8a84-19caf31325ce\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/kawhi-leonard\/c12fb587-fc86-471c-8a84-19caf31325ce\" target=\"_self\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kawhi Leonard<\/a> has been ruled out of Sunday&#8217;s showdown against the Minnesota Timberwolves with left knee swelling, the team announced an hour before before tip-off.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard, acquired in a blockbuster off-season trade from the Los Angeles Clippers, has laced up for the Raptors&#8217; first two games of the year against the Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards. <\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old has had a slow start to the year on offence, averaging 19.5 points on 32.4-per-cent shooting from the field and 28.6 per cent from three-point range. He has added 7.5 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 3.5 steals while helping the Raptors to the second-best defence in the league through the first week of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard has dealt with knee injuries throughout his career, but enjoyed a relatively healthy season with the Clippers last year, appearing in 65 games and earning a second-team All-NBA nod. <\/p>\n<p>In his first stint with the Raptors in the 2018-19 season, Leonard missed 22 regular-season games but helped the franchise to its first and only championship. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Raptors will be down a key piece in their biggest test so far early in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-946204","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\/946204","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=946204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}