{"id":565992,"date":"2026-01-28T09:51:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/565992\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:51:27","slug":"cavaliers-evan-mobley-sidelined-with-calf-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/565992\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers’ Evan Mobley sidelined with calf strain"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Cavaliers forward Evan Mobley will be sidelined for the second time this season due to a strained left calf, the team said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

What You Need To Know<\/p>\n

The reigning Defensive Player of the Year is expected to miss 1 to 3 weeks
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Mobley suffered the injury during Monday night’s\u00a0114-98 victory<\/a>\u00a0over the Orlando Magic
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He had tightness in the calf after the game and an MRI on Tuesday revealed the strain<\/p>\n

The reigning Defensive Player of the Year is expected to miss 1 to 3 weeks.<\/p>\n

Mobley suffered the injury during Monday night’s\u00a0114-98 victory<\/a>\u00a0over the Orlando Magic. He had tightness in the calf after the game and an MRI on Tuesday revealed the strain.<\/p>\n

Mobley missed five games in December with a Grade 1 strain of the calf. The fifth-year 7-footer is averaging 17.9 points and 8.8 rebounds in 40 games.<\/p>\n

Cleveland enters Wednesday night’s game against LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers on its second four-game winning streak of the season and is a season-high eight games over .500 at 28-20. The Cavaliers depart for a season-long, five-game trip after hosting the Lakers.<\/p>\n

Mobley recorded his 500th blocked shot on Monday night, making the 24-year-old the youngest Cavs player to reach that milestone. He’s second in the league in blocks this season, averaging 2.0 per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Cavaliers forward Evan Mobley will be sidelined for the second time this season due to a strained…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[1970,1977,2097,7,306,305,193,3846,6,67,16,8424,8757,66,1974],"class_list":{"0":"post-565992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-cavaliers","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-cavaliers","13":"tag-cleveland","14":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","15":"tag-clevelandcavaliers","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-ohio","19":"tag-ohio-cleveland-cavaliers","20":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115972111444139282","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565992","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=565992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}