{"id":479808,"date":"2026-01-19T21:48:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=479808"},"modified":"2026-01-19T21:48:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:48:28","slug":"toronto-raptors-cautious-optimism-on-rj-barrett-poeltl-still-not-up-to-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/toronto-raptors-cautious-optimism-on-rj-barrett-poeltl-still-not-up-to-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors: cautious optimism on RJ Barrett, Poeltl still not up to speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1462\" data-end=\"1770\">The Toronto Raptors are cautiously optimistic about <strong data-start=\"1514\" data-end=\"1528\">RJ Barrett<\/strong>, who has missed 21 of the past 27 games with <strong data-start=\"1574\" data-end=\"1582\">knee<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1587\" data-end=\"1596\">ankle<\/strong> problems. After a hard workout before Sunday\u2019s game with no apparent setbacks, there\u2019s hope he can return during the current road trip \u2014 possibly by Wednesday in Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1772\" data-end=\"2045\">The outlook is less encouraging for <strong data-start=\"1808\" data-end=\"1824\">Jakob Poeltl<\/strong>, who has barely played since mid-December because of a <strong data-start=\"1880\" data-end=\"1901\">lower back strain<\/strong>. He went through pregame work, but he\u2019s still short of full speed, a factor that complicates Toronto\u2019s ability to move him before the deadline.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2047\" data-end=\"2216\">Rookie <strong data-start=\"2054\" data-end=\"2078\">Collin Murray-Boyles<\/strong> filled in at center but exited Sunday after taking a hit to the hand. X-rays were negative and he was diagnosed with a <strong data-start=\"2198\" data-end=\"2215\">bruised thumb<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barrett could return on the current road trip after knee and ankle issues; Poeltl\u2019s outlook remains murkier, while Murray-Boyles is dealing with a bruised thumb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-479808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Toronto-Raptors.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479808"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=479808"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=479808"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=479808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}