{"id":357221,"date":"2025-12-19T01:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/357221\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:08:11","slug":"jazz-rule-out-lauri-markkanen-groin-for-lakers-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/357221\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz rule out Lauri Markkanen (groin) for Lakers game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/utah\/utah-jazz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Jazz<\/a> leading scorer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4066336\/lauri-markkanen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lauri Markkanen<\/a> won&#8217;t play Thursday night against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lal\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> due to a right groin strain.<\/p>\n<p>Markkanen is averaging a career-high 27.8 points and his absence will hurt Utah&#8217;s chances to win three consecutive games for the first time this season.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47327985\/nba-power-rankings-all-30-teams-cavaliers-mavericks-76ers-eastern-conference\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nba_power_rankings_week8-1x1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47316265\/nba-trade-deadline-bobby-marks-every-player-cannot-dealt\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766106491_904_r1571992_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>More minutes should be available for third-year forward <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4684806\/taylor-hendricks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Hendricks<\/a> and second-year big man <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4684793\/kyle-filipowski\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Filipowski<\/a> as the Jazz have recently shifted to featuring their younger players.<\/p>\n<p>Markkanen was originally listed as questionable on the injury report, but the Jazz ruled him out Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The injury doesn&#8217;t seem to be serious and will be just the second game the Jazz forward has missed this season. He sat out the Dec. 7 loss to Oklahoma City because of illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY &#8212; Utah Jazz leading scorer Lauri Markkanen won&#8217;t play Thursday night against the Los Angeles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-357221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357221","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=357221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}