{"id":475799,"date":"2025-12-25T08:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T07:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=475799"},"modified":"2025-12-25T08:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T07:08:06","slug":"luka-doncic-expected-back-on-christmas-day-vs-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/luka-doncic-expected-back-on-christmas-day-vs-rockets\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic expected back on Christmas Day vs Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1280\" data-end=\"1569\">Although officially listed as <strong data-start=\"1324\" data-end=\"1340\">questionable<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1342\" data-end=\"1383\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Luka Don\u010di\u0107<\/span><\/span><\/strong> is expected to play on Christmas Day against the <strong data-start=\"1433\" data-end=\"1474\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Houston Rockets<\/span><\/span><\/strong>. The <strong data-start=\"1482\" data-end=\"1523\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/span><\/span><\/strong> star is set to return after missing one game.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1571\" data-end=\"1725\">Don\u010di\u0107 suffered a left leg contusion last Saturday and sat out Tuesday\u2019s matchup. If he is activated, Nick Smith Jr. would shift back to a reserve role.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1727\" data-end=\"1915\">Before the injury, Don\u010di\u0107 averaged <strong data-start=\"1762\" data-end=\"1777\">31.7 points<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1779\" data-end=\"1795\">8.3 rebounds<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1800\" data-end=\"1815\">7.7 assists<\/strong> over his previous six games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luka Don\u010di\u0107 is expected to return for the Christmas Day game against Houston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-475799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Los-Angeles-Lakers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475799"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=475799"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=475799"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=475799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}