{"id":477241,"date":"2026-01-05T08:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=477241"},"modified":"2026-01-05T08:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:57:06","slug":"los-angeles-clippers-derrick-jones-jr-out-again-with-grade-2-right-mcl-sprain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/los-angeles-clippers-derrick-jones-jr-out-again-with-grade-2-right-mcl-sprain\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Clippers&#8217; Derrick Jones Jr. out again with Grade 2 right MCL sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1581\" data-end=\"1851\"><strong data-start=\"1595\" data-end=\"1610\">LA Clippers<\/strong> forward <strong data-start=\"1619\" data-end=\"1640\">Derrick Jones Jr.<\/strong> has been diagnosed with a <strong data-start=\"1667\" data-end=\"1695\">Grade 2 right MCL sprain<\/strong> and will be <strong data-start=\"1708\" data-end=\"1737\">re-evaluated in six weeks<\/strong>, sources told ESPN\u2019s <strong data-start=\"1759\" data-end=\"1777\">Shams Charania<\/strong>. The latest injury occurred in Saturday\u2019s loss to the <strong data-start=\"1832\" data-end=\"1850\">Boston Celtics<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1853\" data-end=\"2050\">Jones had played only four games since returning from another <strong data-start=\"1915\" data-end=\"1946\">MCL sprain in the same knee<\/strong>, an issue that sidelined him for more than a month. This new setback comes shortly after that comeback.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2052\" data-end=\"2286\">Jones\u2019 return had lined up with a Clippers turnaround, as Los Angeles carried a <strong data-start=\"2132\" data-end=\"2159\">six-game winning streak<\/strong> into the Boston game. The Clippers did get <strong data-start=\"2203\" data-end=\"2218\">Ivica Zubac<\/strong> back Saturday from an ankle sprain that kept him out for two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN reports Derrick Jones Jr. has been diagnosed with a Grade 2 right MCL sprain.<br \/>\nHe will be re-evaluated in six weeks, per sources<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":410304,"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-477241","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\/10\/Los-Angeles-Clippers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477241","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=477241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477241"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=477241"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=477241"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=477241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}