{"id":771643,"date":"2026-05-04T02:19:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/771643\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T02:19:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:19:28","slug":"brandon-ingram-out-for-raptors-game-7-against-cavaliers-with-sore-right-heel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/771643\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Ingram out for Raptors&#8217; Game 7 against Cavaliers with sore right heel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Toronto Raptors forward Brandon Ingram missed Game 7 of the Eastern Conference first-round playoff series against the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday because of a sore right heel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe injury right now is such that he needs to rest and go easy on his heel and we\u2019ll see where he is at after this,\u201d coach Darko Rajakovic said before the game.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time All-Star has been sidelined since midway through the second quarter of Wednesday night\u2019s 125-120 loss.<\/p>\n<p>Guard Jamal Shead started in Ingram\u2019s place for the second straight game.<\/p>\n<p>Ingram averaged 21.5 points during the regular season and made his second All-Star Game in his first season with the Raptors. However, he has averaged just 12 games in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of Sunday\u2019s game advances to the Eastern Conference semifinals to face the Detroit Pistons. Game 1 will be Tuesday night in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>___ <\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Toronto Raptors forward Brandon Ingram missed Game 7 of the Eastern Conference first-round playoff series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":771644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[24139,3128,151242,1260,6326,3579,1574,1573,62,3126,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-771643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-brandon-ingram","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-darko-rajakovic","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-oh-state-wire","tag-ohio","tag-sports","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116513915936586392","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}