{"id":560954,"date":"2026-01-26T01:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/560954\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T01:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:27:15","slug":"raptors-provide-update-no-timeline-for-injured-centre-poeltl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/560954\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors provide update, no timeline for injured centre Poeltl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/LSWBV3PKLBFWFFY62VQIMP57LQ.jpg?auth=a6f04109d823cc1a2c4b32707a7c5efcba8e0cb2ffa6cce60d6ff9488d4fe101&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"figcap-text\">Toronto Raptors centre Jakob Poeltl (19) and Miami Heat centre Bam Adebayo (13) go for a loose ball during the first half of a game last month in Miami.Lynne Sladky\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The Toronto Raptors have announced that starting centre Jakob Poeltl remains without a timeline to return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The 30-year-old Austrian hasn\u2019t played since Dec. 21, missing 17 games, due to a lower back strain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">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 class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Toronto is in Oklahoma City to take on the NBA-best Thunder Sunday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">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 class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Poeltl has averaged 9.7 points and 7.7 rebounds in 21 games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Toronto Raptors centre Jakob Poeltl (19) and Miami Heat centre Bam Adebayo (13)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3770],"tags":[10388,10376,7,10389,4500,9436,10390,4821,10371,10382,10383,10378,10372,10370,7678,6682,10387,10381,10375,10401,10373,10374,10380,10377,1943,2679,10391,9876,6,10396,10397,10399,10394,10398,10392,10395,6870,10385,10386,3559,10384,10393,681,83,1963,680,476,3820,9087,10379,4486,447,10400],"class_list":["post-560954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto-raptors","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-basketball","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-nba","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-raptors","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-torontoraptors","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560954","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=560954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}