{"id":363392,"date":"2025-12-21T23:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/363392\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:25:08","slug":"sources-clippers-c-ivica-zubac-has-grade-2-ankle-sprain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/363392\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Clippers C Ivica Zubac has Grade 2 ankle sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"083a58a6-b849-3501-e67b-059290d12295\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lac\/la-clippers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LA Clippers<\/a> center <a data-player-guid=\"314d5203-a973-39ef-ad47-e6bcd46f77fd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4017837\/ivica-zubac\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ivica Zubac<\/a> will miss several weeks due to a Grade 2 left ankle sprain, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Zubac exited in the first half of Saturday&#8217;s 103-88 win over the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2876e98b-b9bc-2920-4319-46e6943f8be4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lal\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> and did not return. He went to the floor in a heap late in the first quarter and immediately hobbled back to the locker room for evaluation after <a data-player-guid=\"3496fbc1-fa88-c332-7f91-f015006e0c8b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3448\/brook-lopez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brook Lopez<\/a> substituted in for him. Zubac finished with five points and two rebounds in 11 minutes.<\/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\/1766359508_678_nba_power_rankings_week8-1x1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before the game, Lakers center <a data-player-guid=\"4cd92ac1-73ce-653d-c3b1-9c68e9c7a4d0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4397077\/jaxson-hayes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaxson Hayes<\/a> said Zubac &#8212; who was averaging 16 points and 11.5 rebounds headed into the win &#8212; would be a challenge to contend with.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Zu is a dog, man,&#8221; Hayes said after the Lakers&#8217; shootaround Saturday morning. &#8220;He&#8217;s, honestly, I feel like one of the most slept-on bigs in the league, man. If you play him, you know he&#8217;s like that. Zu has been like that for years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LA Clippers center Ivica Zubac will miss several weeks due to a Grade 2 left ankle sprain, sources&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-363392","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\/363392","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=363392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}