{"id":433603,"date":"2026-01-27T22:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/433603\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T22:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:50:08","slug":"cavaliers-big-man-mobley-out-one-to-three-weeks-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/433603\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers big man Mobley out one to three weeks with injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cavaliers cannot escape the injury bug.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland power forward <a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"d64b602e-45f2-4ba9-878b-0a4f7210ec77\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/evan-mobley\/d64b602e-45f2-4ba9-878b-0a4f7210ec77\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Evan Mobley<\/a> has a left calf strain and will be sidelined for one to three weeks, the team announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Cavaliers point guard Darius Garland has been out since Jan. 16 with a toe injury.<\/p>\n<p>Mobley sustained the injury in Monday&#8217;s 114-98 win over the Magic, where Mobley scored 20 points with nine rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning NBA Defensive Player of the Year, Mobley was in the midst of another impressive defensive season, averaging two blocks and 0.9 steals per game.<\/p>\n<p>On offence, Mobley is a key piece of the Cavaliers&#8217; system, averaging 17.9 points, 8.8 rebounds, and four assists per game.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Mobley is in his fifth NBA season out of USC. He was drafted third overall by Cleveland in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Cavaliers will start their stretch without Mobley when they host the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cavaliers cannot escape the injury bug. Cleveland power forward Evan Mobley has a left calf strain and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-433603","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\/433603","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=433603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}