{"id":434007,"date":"2026-01-28T03:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/434007\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T03:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:32:10","slug":"cavaliers-evan-mobley-sidelined-with-calf-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/434007\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers’ Evan Mobley sidelined with calf strain"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Cavaliers forward Evan Mobley will be sidelined for the second time this season due to a strained left calf, the team said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

What You Need To Know<\/p>\n

The reigning Defensive Player of the Year is expected to miss 1 to 3 weeks
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Mobley suffered the injury during Monday night’s\u00a0114-98 victory<\/a>\u00a0over the Orlando Magic
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He had tightness in the calf after the game and an MRI on Tuesday revealed the strain<\/p>\n

The reigning Defensive Player of the Year is expected to miss 1 to 3 weeks.<\/p>\n

Mobley suffered the injury during Monday night’s\u00a0114-98 victory<\/a>\u00a0over the Orlando Magic. He had tightness in the calf after the game and an MRI on Tuesday revealed the strain.<\/p>\n

Mobley missed five games in December with a Grade 1 strain of the calf. The fifth-year 7-footer is averaging 17.9 points and 8.8 rebounds in 40 games.<\/p>\n

Cleveland enters Wednesday night’s game against LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers on its second four-game winning streak of the season and is a season-high eight games over .500 at 28-20. The Cavaliers depart for a season-long, five-game trip after hosting the Lakers.<\/p>\n

Mobley recorded his 500th blocked shot on Monday night, making the 24-year-old the youngest Cavs player to reach that milestone. He’s second in the league in blocks this season, averaging 2.0 per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Cavaliers forward Evan Mobley will be sidelined for the second time this season due to a strained…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[41445,2722,2724,852,355,3,6454,138791,7739,99,452],"class_list":["post-434007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-cleveland","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434007","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=434007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}