{"id":615506,"date":"2026-02-21T09:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/615506\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T09:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:35:18","slug":"raptors-jakob-poeltl-coming-off-bench-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/615506\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors&#8217; Jakob Poeltl: Coming off bench Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771454089_143_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/TOR\/toronto-raptors\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/358.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/players\/2153012\/poeltl\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Poeltl<\/a> is not in the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/TOR\/toronto-raptors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raptors<\/a>&#8216; starting lineup against the Bulls on Thursday, Blake Murphy of Sportsnet.ca reports.<\/p>\n<p>Poeltl missed 24 games spanning from late December to early February due to a back strain, but he was cleared to return for the Raptors&#8217; loss to the Pistons on Feb. 11, when he started and recorded nine points and six rebounds over 20 minutes. The veteran center will come off the bench for Thursday&#8217;s contest while rookie first-rounder Collin Murray-Boyles enters the Raptors&#8217; starting five.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poeltl is not in the Raptors&#8216; starting lineup against the Bulls on Thursday, Blake Murphy of Sportsnet.ca reports.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,2825,1399,6,681,680,476,3820],"class_list":{"0":"post-615506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-raptors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-fantasy-basketball","10":"tag-jakob-poeltl","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-raptors","13":"tag-toronto","14":"tag-toronto-raptors","15":"tag-torontoraptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116107944660081777","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615506","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=615506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}