{"id":525920,"date":"2026-01-08T23:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/525920\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T23:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:01:11","slug":"raptors-stars-injuries-put-availability-vs-celtics-in-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/525920\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors Stars\u2019 Injuries Put Availability Vs. Celtics In Doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Celtics (23-13) and Toronto Raptors (23-15) are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/standings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:separated by just one game;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">separated by just one game<\/a> in the NBA\u2019s Eastern Conference standings entering Friday\u2019s clash in Beantown.<\/p>\n<p>Boston forwards Jayson Tatum and Josh Minott are the only two Celtics players <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/bobbykrivitsky.bsky.social\/post\/3mbwvwnojok2g\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ruled out;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ruled out<\/a> for the contest, while Toronto could be missing both star forwards Brandon Ingram and Scottie Barnes.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s in addition to starting center Jakob Poeltl, who hasn\u2019t suited up since Dec. 21.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScottie Barnes (right knee sprain) and Brandon Ingram (right thumb sprain) are questionable Friday vs. Celtics,\u201d Sportsnet\u2019s Blake Murphy posted on Bluesky. \u201cJakob Poeltl remains out. Hepburn with 905, Lawson and Martin available as needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Raptors have won three in a row but dropped each of their first two matchups vs. Boston this season.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes and Ingram are the only two Toronto players to start and appear in each of the team\u2019s first 38 contests.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The latter leads the Raptors in scoring (21.8 points per game), is averaging 5.9 rebounds and 3.6 assists and has posted a .474\/.349\/.821 shooting line during the 2025-26 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Barnes paces Toronto in rebounds (8.4), minutes (34.0), blocks (1.5) and steals per tilt (1.3), is third in points per game (19.1) and has registered a career-high .504\/.347\/.837 slash line this season.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/01\/celtics-neemias-queta-makes-nba-history-with-monster-game-vs-nuggets\/\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Celtics\u2019 Neemias Queta Makes NBA History With Monster Game Vs. Nuggets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">  Celtics\u2019 Neemias Queta Makes NBA History With Monster Game Vs. Nuggets <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Celtics (23-13) and Toronto Raptors (23-15) are separated by just one game in the NBA\u2019s Eastern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,75,4441,1399,77,7272,6,681,1261,680,476,3820],"class_list":{"0":"post-525920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-raptors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-brandon-ingram","11":"tag-jakob-poeltl","12":"tag-jayson-tatum","13":"tag-josh-minott","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-raptors","16":"tag-scottie-barnes","17":"tag-toronto","18":"tag-toronto-raptors","19":"tag-torontoraptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115861971844970705","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}