{"id":1913448,"date":"2026-05-01T22:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1913448"},"modified":"2026-05-01T22:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:10:15","slug":"brandon-ingram-to-miss-game-6-with-heel-injury-can-raptors-cope-without-their-all-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1913448","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Ingram to miss Game 6 with heel injury. Can Raptors cope without their All-Star?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TORONTO \u2014 Brandon Ingram will miss Friday\u2019s Game 6 of the Toronto Raptors\u2019 first-round playoff series against the Cleveland Cavaliers, an elimination game, with a heel injury. The Cavaliers lead the series 3-2.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis heel is pretty sore,\u201d Raptors coach Darko Rajakovi\u0107 said Friday afternoon. \u201cHe is not able to go tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ingram aggravated a heel injury that bothered him late in the regular season in the second quarter of Wednesday\u2019s Game 5. He could not return to the game. He was initially listed as questionable for Game 6, although he was downgraded to doubtful after the team\u2019s shootaround in the morning.<\/p>\n

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Guard Jamal Shead, who started the first two games of the series before being sent to the bench in favour of Ja\u2019Kobe Walter in Game 3, will slide into Ingram\u2019s spot in Toronto\u2019s starting lineup, which is already without point guard Immanuel Quickley due to a hamstring injury. The Raptors started little-used wing A.J. Lawson in the second half of Game 5, but the Raptors had a poor start and he was pulled after a little more than two minutes.<\/p>\n

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Ingram played 77 games during the regular season, the most the 10-year veteran has played since his rookie season. He led the Raptors in scoring, averaging 21.5 points per game, and made the All-Star Game as an injury replacement.<\/p>\n

He has struggled in the series against the Cavaliers, however. Taking away his early exit in Game 5, Ingram is averaging 14.8 points on 33.9 percent shooting, with nine assists and nine turnovers. He said he needed more shots after making just nine field goal attempts in Game 1, but the efficiency never came with the volume uptick<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Scottie Barnes, another Raptors All-Star, also suffered an injury in the second quarter of Game 5, hurting his quadriceps on a drive. Barnes played the rest of the game, but he was used off the ball more on both ends. He is available for the Raptors in Game 6.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s feeling good,\u201d Rajakovi\u0107 said of Barnes. \u201cIt\u2019s awesome to be young and recover quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Without Ingram and with Barnes limited, the Raptors scored 46 points on 30 percent shooting in the second half in the Game 5 loss.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TORONTO \u2014 Brandon Ingram will miss Friday\u2019s Game 6 of the Toronto Raptors\u2019 first-round playoff series against the Cleveland Cavaliers, an elimination game, with a heel injury. The Cavaliers lead the series 3-2. \u201cHis heel is pretty sore,\u201d Raptors coach Darko Rajakovi\u0107 said Friday afternoon. \u201cHe is not able to go tonight.\u201d Advertisement Ingram aggravated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,241],"class_list":["post-1913448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-nytimes-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1913448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1913448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1913448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1913448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}