{"id":539583,"date":"2026-01-16T01:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/539583\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T01:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:24:15","slug":"cavs-add-two-more-names-to-injury-report-for-fridays-game-vs-76ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/539583\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavs add two more names to injury report for Friday\u2019s game vs. 76ers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Garland is averaging 18 points and 6.9 assists in 26 games played this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Merrill\u2019s injury is on the same hand that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fearthesword.com\/cavs-injury-report\/40562\/cavs-injury-update-sam-merrill-houston-rockets-cleveland-cavaliers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">initially injured in November<\/a>. The injury is labeled as a right-hand sprain, the same designation as the one that kept him out for over a month earlier this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Merrill is in the midst of the best season of his career. He\u2019s averaging 13.8 points on 45.5% shooting from three in 24 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As of this time, the team hasn\u2019t provided a concrete update on either injury besides indicating that both will miss Friday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Cavs will also be without the services of Max Strus (foot), Dean Wade (knee contusion), Luke Travers (G League), and Chris Livingston (G League).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Sixers could be without key players as well. Dominick Barlow is listed as questionable with a back contusion. Joel Embiid (knee) and Paul George (knee) are both probable for Friday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garland is averaging 18 points and 6.9 assists in 26 games played this season. Merrill\u2019s injury is on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3769],"tags":[679,7,148,6,678,207,3817],"class_list":{"0":"post-539583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-76ers","8":"tag-76ers","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-cavs-injury-report","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","14":"tag-philadelphia76ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115902170065452460","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539583","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=539583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}