{"id":698486,"date":"2026-04-04T21:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/698486\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:40:16","slug":"boston-celtics-nikola-vucevic-finger-upgraded-for-toronto-raptors-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/698486\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics&#8217; Nikola Vucevic (finger) upgraded for Toronto Raptors game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Boston Celtics center Nikola Vucevic was upgraded to questionable for Sunday&#8217;s game against the Toronto Raptors one month after undergoing surgery for a fractured right ring finger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Vucevic has appeared in just 12 games for Boston after he was acquired in a trade from the Chicago Bulls. The 15-year NBA veteran is averaging 10.4 points and 7.2 rebounds in 21.7 minutes per game for the Celtics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Celtics also added two-way wing Ron Harper Jr. to a new two-year deal on Saturday, his agent Drew Gross of WME Basketball told ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Harper, the son of former NBA player Ron Harper, has been a part of the Celtics&#8217; rotation at times this season while also spending time starring for their Maine G League affiliate team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics center Nikola Vucevic was upgraded to questionable for Sunday&#8217;s game against the Toronto Raptors one month&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,80622,6,87784,681,680,476,3820],"class_list":{"0":"post-698486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-raptors","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston-celtics-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-2","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nikola-vucevic-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-457598","12":"tag-raptors","13":"tag-toronto","14":"tag-toronto-raptors","15":"tag-torontoraptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116348611875263878","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698486","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=698486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}