{"id":560237,"date":"2026-01-25T17:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/560237\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T17:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:32:13","slug":"raptors-jakob-poeltl-remains-without-return-timeline-team-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/560237\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors&#8217; Jakob Poeltl remains without return timeline, team says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Raptors have announced that starting centre Jakob Poeltl remains without a timeline to return.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old Austrian hasn&#8217;t played since Dec. 21, missing 17 games, due to a lower back strain.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Raptors say Poeltl has returned to Toronto and received targeted pain relief treatment. His status will be updated when he returns to practice.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto is in Oklahoma City to take on the NBA-best Thunder Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Raptors, who are on a three-game winning streak are fourth in the Eastern Conference at 28-19, behind New York due to a tiebreaker. Toronto is one game behind second-place Boston and six games back of Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>Poeltl has averaged 9.7 points and 7.7 rebounds in 21 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 25, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Raptors have announced that starting centre Jakob Poeltl remains without a timeline to return. The 30-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,45,296,1409,1399,6,475,681,6834,680,476,3820],"class_list":{"0":"post-560237","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","10":"tag-detroit","11":"tag-eastern-conference","12":"tag-jakob-poeltl","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-oklahoma-city","15":"tag-raptors","16":"tag-the-raptors","17":"tag-toronto","18":"tag-toronto-raptors","19":"tag-torontoraptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115956937177114248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560237","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=560237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}