{"id":479381,"date":"2026-01-17T20:04:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T19:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=479381"},"modified":"2026-01-17T20:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T19:04:22","slug":"lakers-luka-doncic-out-vs-blazers-with-left-groin-soreness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lakers-luka-doncic-out-vs-blazers-with-left-groin-soreness\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers\u2019 Luka Doncic out vs. Blazers with left groin soreness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1348\" data-end=\"1608\">The <strong data-start=\"1367\" data-end=\"1389\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong> ruled <strong data-start=\"1396\" data-end=\"1411\">Luka Doncic<\/strong> out Saturday in Portland due to <strong data-start=\"1444\" data-end=\"1467\">left groin soreness<\/strong>.<br data-start=\"1468\" data-end=\"1471\" \/>Injury report: <strong data-start=\"1486\" data-end=\"1502\">Jaxson Hayes<\/strong> is questionable (left hamstring tendinopathy) and <strong data-start=\"1553\" data-end=\"1570\">Deandre Ayton<\/strong> is questionable (left knee soreness).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1610\" data-end=\"1846\">The <strong data-start=\"1614\" data-end=\"1636\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong> announced Friday that <strong data-start=\"1659\" data-end=\"1674\">Luka Doncic<\/strong> will miss Saturday\u2019s game against the <strong data-start=\"1713\" data-end=\"1739\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/strong> because of left groin soreness. Doncic is coming off 39 points in a 135-117 loss to the Charlotte Hornets.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1848\" data-end=\"2115\">Earlier in the week, Doncic said he \u201cfelt something\u201d in his groin during warmups before the 124-112 loss to the Sacramento Kings, but played \u2014 scoring 42 with 8 assists and 7 rebounds. He then posted 27 points and 12 assists in the 141-116 win over the Atlanta Hawks.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2117\" data-end=\"2403\">Doncic leads the league at <strong data-start=\"2144\" data-end=\"2168\">33.6 points per game<\/strong> and is the West\u2019s top All-Star vote getter through two ballot returns, but the Lakers have lost eight of their last 13 and sit fifth. Doncic said the Atlanta win showed what L.A. can be: \u201c<strong data-start=\"2357\" data-end=\"2385\">We got to play like that<\/strong>\u2026 fast, physical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2405\" data-end=\"2485\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Source: <em data-start=\"2413\" data-end=\"2436\">ESPN (Dave McMenamin)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers ruled Luka Doncic out Saturday in Portland due to left groin soreness<\/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-479381","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\/479381","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=479381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479381\/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=479381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479381"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=479381"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=479381"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=479381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}