{"id":627430,"date":"2026-02-27T03:30:38","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/627430\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T03:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:30:38","slug":"clippers-nicolas-batum-starting-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/627430\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippers&#8217; Nicolas Batum: Starting 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\/1772061739_339_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/teams\/LAC\/los-angeles-clippers\/\" 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\/344.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/players\/1622493\/batum\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Batum<\/a> is in the starting lineup for Thursday&#8217;s matchup with the Timberwolves, Law Murray of The Athletic reports.<\/p>\n<p>Joining Batum in the first unit for Thursday&#8217;s game will be Kris Dunn, Bennedict Mathurin, Derrick Jones and Brook Lopez. Across four starts this season, Batum has recorded averages of 3.8 points, 2.0 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 1.3 triples per contest.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Batum is in the starting lineup for Thursday&#8217;s matchup with the Timberwolves, Law Murray of The Athletic reports.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,559,2825,4034,192,4032,251,135,4033,4031,6,1522],"class_list":{"0":"post-627430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-clippers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-clippers","10":"tag-fantasy-basketball","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-clippers","13":"tag-laclippers","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangelesclippers","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-nicolas-batum"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116140482970655945","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627430","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=627430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627430\/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=627430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}