{"id":491208,"date":"2026-04-04T08:06:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=491208"},"modified":"2026-04-04T08:06:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:06:37","slug":"luka-doncic-out-through-regular-season-with-grade-2-hamstring-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/luka-doncic-out-through-regular-season-with-grade-2-hamstring-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic out through regular season with Grade 2 hamstring strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1917\" data-end=\"2220\">The <strong data-start=\"1921\" data-end=\"1943\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong> announced that <strong data-start=\"1959\" data-end=\"1974\">Luka Doncic<\/strong> will be sidelined at least through the end of the regular season because of a <strong data-start=\"2053\" data-end=\"2086\">Grade 2 left hamstring strain<\/strong>. The injury was confirmed by an MRI in Dallas after he went down in the third quarter of the heavy loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2222\" data-end=\"2565\">The team did not provide a full timetable beyond the final five regular-season games, although this type of injury usually requires a longer recovery. The setback will prevent Doncic from reaching the 65-game threshold for end-of-season awards, but his agent <strong data-start=\"2481\" data-end=\"2495\">Bill Duffy<\/strong> said he plans to file an <strong data-start=\"2521\" data-end=\"2564\">\u201cExtraordinary Circumstances Challenge\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2567\" data-end=\"2930\">Even so, Doncic\u2019s first full season with the Lakers has been remarkable, with averages of <strong data-start=\"2657\" data-end=\"2672\">33.5 points<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2674\" data-end=\"2689\">8.3 assists<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"2691\" data-end=\"2707\">7.7 rebounds<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2712\" data-end=\"2726\">1.6 steals<\/strong> in 64 appearances. Los Angeles is currently third in the Western Conference and has already clinched a playoff spot, but the focus now shifts to whether its star can return in time for the opening round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers will be without Luka Doncic for at least the final five regular-season games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":491042,"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-491208","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\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-03-alle-08.19.00.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491208","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=491208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491208"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=491208"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=491208"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=491208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}