{"id":948422,"date":"2026-10-27T18:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948422\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T18:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:02:15","slug":"toronto-raptors-star-kawhi-leonard-out-at-least-one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948422\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors star Kawhi Leonard out at least one week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0October 27, 2026 at 12:11p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0October 27, 2026 at 11:49a.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Toronto Raptors star Kawhi Leonard will be out for at least one week due to swelling in his left knee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Leonard was ruled out just an hour before Toronto\u2019s 117-94 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Raptors say he will undergo treatment and rehabilitation to address the swelling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 35-year-old has averaged 19.5 points, 7.5 rebounds, 3.5 steals, 1.5 assists and 0.5 blocks over two games this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The two-time NBA Finals MVP was traded by the Los Angeles Clippers back to Toronto this past summer in a blockbuster deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Leonard was instrumental in the Raptors\u2019 only NBA championship in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 27, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0October 27, 2026 at 12:11p.m. EDT Published:\u00a0October 27, 2026 at 11:49a.m. EDT TORONTO \u2014 Toronto Raptors star Kawhi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,82,3302],"class_list":["post-948422","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\/948422","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=948422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}