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Toronto Raptors<\/a> forward Brandon Ingram<\/a> has been cleared for contact as he works his way back from an ankle injury.<\/p>\n “He’s pain-free, he’s moving well, he got stronger,” Raptors coach Darko Rajakovic told TSN on Thursday. “He’s in a really, really great spot.”<\/p>\n The 27-year-old former All-Star is expected to take part in upcoming team scrimmages, per TSN.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n Ingram has been completing individual workouts and training with the Raptors while rehabilitating the injury that ended his season on Dec. 7, when he was still a member of the New Orleans Pelicans<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ingram joined the Raptors in a February trade<\/a> that sent Bruce Brown<\/a> and Kelly Olynyk<\/a> to the Pelicans. Days after the trade, Ingram agreed to a three-year, $120 million extension<\/a> with the Raptors, a deal that reportedly includes a player option in 2027-28.<\/p>\n He has not played a game for the Raptors. He was officially shut down for the season<\/a> on April 9 after receiving a platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injection to help his recovery.<\/p>\n An All-Star in 2019-20, Ingram averaged 22.2 points, 5.6 rebounds and 5.2 assists in 18 games in 2024-25. He owns career clips of 19.5 points, 5.2 boards and 4.3 assists in 495 games (456 starts) for the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> (2016-19) and Pelicans. The Lakers drafted him No. 2 overall in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 11, 2025, 11:00 AM ET Toronto Raptors forward Brandon Ingram has been cleared for contact as he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}