{"id":27822,"date":"2019-12-19T19:30:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T00:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/?p=27822"},"modified":"2019-12-19T19:30:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T00:30:23","slug":"toronto-raptors-marc-gasol-out-with-hamstring-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2019\/12\/19\/toronto-raptors-marc-gasol-out-with-hamstring-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors&#8217; Marc Gasol Out With Hamstring Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/nba-teams\/toronto-raptors\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Toronto Raptors<\/strong><\/a> center<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3206\/marc-gasol\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <strong>Marc Gasol<\/strong><\/a> will be out for multiple weeks with a left hamstring injury, according to ESPN&#8217;s Adrian Wojnarowski. Gasol has started in all 27 games with the Raptors, averaging 6 points, 6 rebounds, and 6 assists.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Toronto Raptors&#8217; Marc Gasol Out With Hamstring Injury\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Details of Marc Gasol&#8217;s Injury\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Gasol suffered the injury during Wednesday night&#8217;s road game against the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprobasketball.com\/nba-teams\/detroit-pistons\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <strong>Detroit Pistons<\/strong><\/a>. He headed to the locker room during the first quarter, and by the end of the first, the Raptors ruled him out for the rest of the game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Toronto Raptors center Marc Gasol will miss a period of weeks with a left hamstring injury, league sources tell ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/1207790904234266624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Toronto Raptors Lineup Moving Forward\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Gasol became a major part of the Raptors championship run last season, joining the team in the February trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Now that Gasol will be sidelined for a few weeks, centers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3439\/serge-ibaka\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Serge Ibaka<\/strong> <\/a>and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3948153\/chris-boucher\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Boucher<\/a> <\/strong>are expected to get an increase in minutes at the five position. Ibaka will most likely be the frontrunner for increased minutes, as he&#8217;s averaging 13 points and 7 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Starting Ibaka will give him a bigger role in the backcourt for the Raptors moving forward. He will also be able to play alongside <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3149673\/pascal-siakam\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paskal Siakam<\/a><\/strong>. Siakam is one of the emerging players in the league for his offensive and defense contributions. Ibaka and Siakam in the backcourt will not only make up for Gasol&#8217;s defensive efforts but will also provide perimeter and paint offense.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"F4rqta1GQSNScm7QqhoXRg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1186310382\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'F4rqta1GQSNScm7QqhoXRg',sig:'xrdJpZkK07dMQ69-yFjAkKMur-46S2H8DzkspPrRXog=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1186310382',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto Raptors center Marc Gasol will be out for multiple weeks with a left hamstring injury, according to ESPN&#8217;s Adrian Wojnarowski. Gasol has started in all 27 games with the Raptors, averaging 6 points, 6 rebounds, and 6 assists. Toronto Raptors&#8217; Marc Gasol Out With Hamstring Injury\u00a0 Details of Marc Gasol&#8217;s Injury\u00a0 Gasol suffered the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2853,"featured_media":27827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1608,62,14],"tags":[65,442,96,2738,128,318],"class_list":["post-27822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","category-nba","category-raptors","tag-basketball","tag-marc-gasol","tag-nba","tag-paskal-siakam","tag-serge-ibaka","tag-toronto-raptors"],"modified_by":"Chase Gage","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}