{"id":242751,"date":"2025-10-26T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242751\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T21:00:09","slug":"luka-doncic-out-1-week-with-finger-sprain-lower-leg-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242751\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Don\u010di\u0107 out 1 week with finger sprain, lower leg injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1881322\" class=\"wp-image-1881322 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2242962969-Edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2894\" height=\"1627\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1881322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luka Don\u010di\u0107 has been sidelined by a left finger sprain and lower leg contusion.<\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 It turns out the only thing able to stop Lakers star Luka Don\u010di\u0107 during the early part of the season has been injury: the Lakers announced Sunday that the 26-year-old was ruled out against the Kings with a left finger sprain and lower leg contusion.<\/p>\n<p>He will be re-evaluated in a week\u2019s time. Per multiple reports, the Lakers don\u2019t expect the injury to linger.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Doncic will be reevaluated in approximately one week, per the Lakers <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ldlRzB8aic\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/ldlRzB8aic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave McMenamin (@mcten) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcten\/status\/1982526995293700255?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Doncic had been off to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/luka-doncic-prolific-performances\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a spectacular start<\/a> to the season with back-to-back 40-point games for the Lakers, who play at Sacramento on Sunday night. He will be reevaluated in approximately one week, the team said.<\/p>\n<p>Doncic scored 43 points in the Lakers\u2019 loss to Golden State on opening night, and he racked up 49 points in a victory over Minnesota last Friday night. Doncic scorched the Timberwolves despite spraining a finger on his non-shooting hand in the opening minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers also are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/lebron-james-film-study\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">without LeBron James<\/a>, who will be sidelined until at least mid-November because of sciatica.<\/p>\n<p>Doncic\u2019s probable one-week absence comes at an inopportune time for Los Angeles, which has six games in the next nine days. The Lakers will have to lean heavily on Austin Reaves, who has scored 51 points in their first two games.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luka Don\u010di\u0107 has been sidelined by a left finger sprain and lower leg contusion. LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,144734,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-242751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-luka-doncic-injury","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}