Raptors Share Injury Updates for Jakob Poeltl and Immanuel Quickley

The Toronto Raptors will be without Jakob Poeltl and Immanuel Quickley on Friday night against the Los Angeles Clippers

The Toronto Raptors aren’t going to be at full strength quite yet.

Jakob Poeltl continues to work his way back from a sprained ankle and isn’t expected to play Friday night against the Los Angeles Clippers. He has progressed toward doing basketball activities but it’s going to be a little bit longer before he can return to the court for Toronto.

The 28-year-old was seen doing half-court work following practice Thursday alongside Toronto’s assistant coaches and appeared to be moving well.

As for when he’ll be back, Poeltl isn’t exactly sure.

“When I'm out there on the court and do my workouts like the ankle feels really good. So it's more just about I guess taking this step by step and making sure that I'm not gonna have any setbacks,” he said Thursday. “So far, like I said, we've made progress every day. So I'm happy with that.”

The Raptors now have another issue to contend with as Immanuel Quickley is expected to miss Friday’s game too. The 24-year-old point guard injured his right thigh during Monday’s game and did not practice Thursday.

“It was becoming sore so we decided for the best of … for him not to practice today and we’re just going to be evaluating him day by day,” Rajaković said. “He’s coming with us on this road trip, we’ll just see when he is going to be able to join us.”

Scottie Barnes will return to being Toronto’s lead point guard for the time being with Dennis Schröder off the bench, Rajaković said.