{"id":820004,"date":"2026-08-25T05:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T05:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/820004\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T05:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T05:03:24","slug":"jakobe-walter-could-reward-the-raptors-patience-with-a-breakout-season-in-year-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/820004\/","title":{"rendered":"Ja\u2019Kobe Walter Could Reward the Raptors\u2019 Patience With a Breakout Season in Year 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/raptors\/onsi\/toronto-raptors-biggest-x-factor-2026-27-nba-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Illustrated<\/a> identified him as Toronto\u2019s biggest X-factor heading into 2026-27, pointing to the progress he made from his rookie season. His scoring average dipped slightly, but his efficiency moved in the right direction. Walter went from shooting 40.5 percent from the field as a rookie to 44.6 percent last season, while his three-point shooting jumped from 34.9 percent to 40.9 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sports Illustrated identified him as Toronto\u2019s biggest X-factor heading into 2026-27, pointing to the progress he made from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3770],"tags":[7,6,681,680,476,3820],"class_list":["post-820004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto-raptors","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-raptors","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-torontoraptors"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117154401881908917","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820004","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=820004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}