{"id":298086,"date":"2025-11-20T23:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298086\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T23:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:25:08","slug":"sources-kings-domantas-sabonis-has-meniscus-tear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/298086\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Kings’ Domantas Sabonis has meniscus tear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sacramento Kings<\/a> center Domantas Sabonis<\/a> suffered a meniscus tear in his left knee and will be reevaluated in three to four weeks, sources told ESPN’s Shams Charania on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Sabonis missed Wednesday night’s loss in Oklahoma City<\/a> with what the team deemed left knee soreness. Further testing revealed the tear, sidelining Sabonis into deep December at least and sending the Kings (3-12) further into an early-season spiral.<\/p>\n

Sabonis has been banged up much of the first month, missing the opener after a hamstring strain in the preseason. He also missed two games earlier this month with a rib issue. Now he’ll miss at least the next 10 games because of the meniscus tear.<\/p>\n

The Kings traded Tyrese Haliburton<\/a> for Sabonis in February of 2022, a risky deal for a franchise attempting to hit fast-forward on a rebuild in an effort to break a 16-year playoff drought.<\/p>\n

Sabonis did aid in that, powering the Kings to the third seed in 2023 as the co-star next to De’Aaron Fox<\/a> in Mike Brown’s first season as coach. Sabonis has been a pillar of durability in Sacramento, playing in 79, 82 and 70 games the past three seasons.<\/p>\n

But things fell apart quickly after that lone playoff run. Brown was fired, Fox was traded and now Sabonis is left as the highest-paid player — three years, $146.8 million left on his deal — on one of the more disappointing teams in basketball.<\/p>\n

The Kings have lost seven consecutive games by double digits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento Kings center Domantas Sabonis suffered a meniscus tear in his left knee and will be reevaluated in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-298086","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-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298086","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=298086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}