{"id":713494,"date":"2026-04-18T22:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/713494\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:06:18","slug":"raptors-quickley-hamstring-misses-game-1-loss-to-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/713494\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors&#8217; Quickley (hamstring) misses Game 1 loss to Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"5a9c33b8-63fd-ff34-a833-925fe89320a6\" href=\"https:\/\/africa.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-raptors\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Raptors<\/a> guard <a data-player-guid=\"4b4c31ed-e9b7-ab20-0462-1919716aaa63\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4395724\/immanuel-quickley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Immanuel Quickley<\/a> missed Saturday&#8217;s blowout loss in Game 1 to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ec79ad1f-e6d2-7762-a2db-7fe97d35126b\" href=\"https:\/\/africa.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/cle\/cleveland-cavaliers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a> as he continues to recover from a right hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>Quickley suffered the mild hamstring strain in Toronto&#8217;s regular-season finale against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"926db769-d35e-e282-9d7e-a05001d774ab\" href=\"https:\/\/africa.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/bkn\/brooklyn-nets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a> on Sunday. Head coach Darko Rajakovi\u0107 said the fifth-year guard was making progress and didn&#8217;t rule him out for Game 2 on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Quickley also missed eight games from March 23 to April 5 because of plantar fasciitis in his right foot.<\/p>\n<p>Quickley averaged 16.4 points, 4.0 rebounds and a career-high 5.9 assists in 70 games for the Raptors during the regular season. He scored at least 20 points in 20 games and recorded eight double-doubles.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"f5cf0cda-37c2-3a0c-b9c9-6c00e2b17c0d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4432241\/jamal-shead\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamal Shead<\/a> is expected to start in Quickley&#8217;s place. Shead, who is in his second season, started 12 games and is averaging 6.6 points and 5.4 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland ruled out reserve forward <a data-player-guid=\"4b399440-a23d-e7d3-e7b3-f2db19e9bb2b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3934723\/thomas-bryant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Bryant<\/a> with a left calf strain.<\/p>\n<p>The Raptors visit the Cavaliers in Game 1 of their first-round series Saturday at 1 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors guard Immanuel Quickley missed Saturday&#8217;s blowout loss in Game 1 to the Cleveland Cavaliers as he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7,670,247,3803,6,671],"class_list":{"0":"post-713494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn-nets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-nets","11":"tag-brooklynnets","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116427987584514279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713494","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=713494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}