\n\t\t\tDecember 19th 2025 at 11:23pm CST by Rory Maher \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Jazz forward Lauri Markkanen<\/a> is likely to miss his second straight game on Saturday vs. Orlando, with Utah officially listing<\/a> him as doubtful due to right groin injury management (hat tip to Andy Larsen of The Salt Lake Tribune<\/a>).<\/p>\n The 28-year-old is off to a strong start to the 2025\/26 campaign, averaging a career-high 27.8 points, 7.0 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.0 steal on .469\/.352\/.893 shooting through 24 games (35.3 minutes per contest). Second-year big man Kyle Filipowski<\/a> started Thursday\u2019s loss to the Lakers with Markkanen out.<\/p>\n Here are a few more injury updates from around the NBA:<\/p>\n Mavericks big man Anthony Davis<\/a> battled through an illness and a left calf contusion in Thursday\u2019s overtime victory over Detroit, writes Mike Curtis of The Dallas Morning News<\/a>. \u201cStill feel under the weather,\u201d said Davis, who finished with 15 points, 18 rebounds and three blocks in 37 minutes. \u201cI actually threw up twice during the game, but I\u2019m just trying to compete. I\u2019m just trying to do whatever I can to help the team win. Just leaving it all on the floor.\u201d Davis was returning from a one-game absence due to the calf issue.
\nThe Lakers will continue to be without starters Austin Reaves<\/a> (left calf strain) and Deandre Ayton<\/a> (left elbow soreness) for Saturday\u2019s contest at the Clippers, tweets<\/a> Dan Woike of The Athletic. Forward Rui Hachimura<\/a> is questionable to suit up due to right groin soreness.
\nAn eye-popping nine Grizzlies will be unavailable for Saturday\u2019s game in Washington, the team announced (via Twitter<\/a>). A pair of two-way players (GG Jackson II<\/a> and Jahmai Mashack<\/a>) are on a G League assignment, but the other seven players \u2014 including Ja Morant<\/a> (left ankle sprain) and Vince Williams Jr.<\/a> (left knee soreness) \u2014 are out due to injuries.
\nHornets guard Tre Mann<\/a> could return to action on Saturday in Detroit, having been listed as probable to suit up (Twitter link<\/a> via the team). Mann has missed the past seven games, with his most recent injury designation being a right knee bone bruise. Pat Connaughton<\/a> (right calf strain) is questionable for Charlotte, while Collin Sexton<\/a> is doubtful as he continues to deal with a left quad strain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"December 19th 2025 at 11:23pm CST by Rory Maher Jazz forward Lauri Markkanen is likely to miss his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[16107,64,30097,63,726,10855,12839,12988,32207,32211,53897,85,32204,197429],"class_list":{"0":"post-362652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-anthony-davis","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-austin-reaves","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-basketball","13":"tag-collin-sexton","14":"tag-deandre-ayton","15":"tag-ja-morant","16":"tag-lauri-markkanen","17":"tag-pat-connaughton","18":"tag-rui-hachimura","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-tre-mann","21":"tag-vince-williams"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362652","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=362652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}