{"id":279807,"date":"2025-11-08T18:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T18:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/279807\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T18:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T18:25:07","slug":"raptors-jakob-poeltl-out-vs-76ers-due-to-lower-back-injury-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/279807\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors&#8217; Jakob Poeltl out vs. 76ers due to lower-back injury management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Centre <a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"e1b3d3d5-b4b1-481a-b5b9-efe4231f48bf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/jakob-poeltl\/e1b3d3d5-b4b1-481a-b5b9-efe4231f48bf\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jakob Poeltl<\/a> has been ruled out for Saturday&#8217;s game against the Philadelphia 76ers as the team manages his lower back injury, they announced ahead of the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s game against Philly comes on the second night of a back-to-back, after the Raptors took down the Atlanta Hawks 109-97 in NBA Cup action on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Poeltl suited up for that outing against Atlanta, marking his second appearance back with the team after missing three games in late October-early November with the back injury. <\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old played 25 minutes in the win over the Hawks, finishing with 12 points, 10 rebounds and one block while shooting 80 per cent from the field. <\/p>\n<p>On the season, the Vienna, Austria, native is averaging 7.7 points, 6.7 rebounds and 0.5 blocks in 22.8 minutes a night. The team has been cautious with Poeltl this season as he has been dealing with back pain since pre-season. <\/p>\n<p>Rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/collin-murray-boyles\/7b169c92-2d4d-4218-9557-4e0ec1b43378\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"7b169c92-2d4d-4218-9557-4e0ec1b43378\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Collin Murray-Boyles<\/a> suited up at the five in Poeltl&#8217;s three-game absence, averaging 11.3 points, 4.7 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.0 blocks in those outings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Centre Jakob Poeltl has been ruled out for Saturday&#8217;s game against the Philadelphia 76ers as the team manages&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-279807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279807","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=279807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}