{"id":955200,"date":"2026-11-02T06:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T06:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/955200\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T06:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T06:30:17","slug":"toronto-raptors-c-jakob-poeltl-a-late-scratch-vs-los-angeles-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/955200\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors\u2019 C Jakob Poeltl a late scratch vs. Los Angeles Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><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> centre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/jakob-poeltl\/844478\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/jakob-poeltl\/844478\" target=\"_blank\">Jakob Poeltl<\/a> was a late scratch for his team\u2019s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/los-angeles-lakers\/13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/los-angeles-lakers\/13\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> with left-shoulder bursitis, according to TSN\u2019s Josh Lewenberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/trayce-jackson-davis-988984\/1187569\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/trayce-jackson-davis-988984\/1187569\" target=\"_blank\">Trayce Jackson-Davis<\/a> took Poeltl\u2019s spot in the starting lineup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Poeltl, 31, is averaging 4.6 points and 5.8 rebounds through five games this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 7-foot centre has been plagued with injuries the last three seasons, only appearing in 46 games last year due to back problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He averaged 10.7 points and 7.0 rebounds last season when he was healthy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Poeltl joins star swingman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/kawhi-leonard\/512591\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/kawhi-leonard\/512591\" target=\"_blank\">Kawhi Leonard<\/a> on the injured list after Leonard was ruled out for multiple weeks with a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto is coming off a 121-114 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/orlando-magic\/19\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/orlando-magic\/19\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Magic<\/a> on Friday in their first game of the NBA Cup schedule. They have a 3-2 record this season and sat in fifth place in the Eastern Conference entering Sunday\u2019s action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors centre Jakob Poeltl was a late scratch for his team\u2019s game against the Los Angeles Lakers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,124189,3302,96661],"class_list":["post-955200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jakob-poeltl-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-844478","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-raptors-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-28"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955200","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=955200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}