{"id":683328,"date":"2026-03-28T02:15:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/683328\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T02:15:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:15:26","slug":"what-happened-to-rj-barrett-live-injury-updates-for-raptors-vs-pelicans-on-3-27-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/683328\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened to RJ Barrett? Live injury updates for Raptors vs. Pelicans on 3\/27\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading151976_e554f3-7c\">See the latest injury update for Raptors guard RJ Barrett, who headed to the locker room early during Friday\u2019s game against the Pelicans.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: RJ Barrett has checked in for the second half vs. the Pelicans.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Raptors standout RJ Barrett suffered an apparent injury during Friday\u2019s game against the New Orleans Pelicans and is in the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before halftime, Barrett went for a rebound under the basket and collided with Zion Williamson. He spent a moment on the ground before getting up and heading back to the locker room. He does not yet have an official injury status.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">RJ Barrett took a hard (inadvertent) hit from human battering ram Zion Williamson as the former Duke teammates battled for a rebound. Took him a while to get up and was walking on his own, but went straight to the locker room. Looked like it may have been his shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Lewenberg (@JLew1050) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JLew1050\/status\/2037705928301011404?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barrett played 16 minutes prior to the injury, scoring 10 points with four rebounds and three assists.<\/p>\n<p>In the event Barrett does not return or misses any extended time, the Raptors will miss his presence. He averages 18.9 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.3 assists in 30.0 minutes a night as an integral piece of this playoff-bound team. With postseason seeding absolutely still on the line, the Raptors will need every bit of help they can get over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto holds a 40-32 record prior to the conclusion of Friday\u2019s game vs. the Pelicans. The team sits sixth in the Eastern Conference as things currently stand.<\/p>\n<p>This article will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"See the latest injury update for Raptors guard RJ Barrett, who headed to the locker room early during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":683329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,11606,6,681,680,476,3820],"class_list":{"0":"post-683328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-raptors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-injury-report","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-raptors","12":"tag-toronto","13":"tag-toronto-raptors","14":"tag-torontoraptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116304395139871288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683328","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=683328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/683329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}