{"id":365398,"date":"2025-12-22T22:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/365398\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T22:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T22:21:08","slug":"lakers-luka-doncic-calf-contusion-considered-day-to-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/365398\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers’ Luka Doncic (calf contusion) considered day-to-day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dave McMenaminDec 23, 2025, 08:10 AM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN.
\nCovered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09.<\/p>\n

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> star Luka Doncic<\/a> has been diagnosed with a left calf contusion and is considered day-to-day, Lakers coach JJ Redick said Monday.<\/p>\n

Doncic, who exited Saturday’s 103-88 loss to the LA Clippers<\/a> early with the injury, was wearing a heavy wrap on his left leg after practice Monday.<\/p>\n

Doncic was kneed in his left calf by Clippers guard Bogdan Bogdanovic<\/a> and did not play after halftime — which Redick said has been a recurring issue for the 6-foot-8 Doncic.<\/p>\n

“It’s happened a bunch this season,” Redick said, before adding that the team is looking into ways to protect Doncic’ legs in future collisions.<\/p>\n

L.A. goes on the road to play the Phoenix Suns<\/a> on Tuesday before hosting the Houston Rockets<\/a> at home Thursday on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n

Austin Reaves<\/a>, who has missed the Lakers last three games with a mild left calf strain, was a limited participant in practice and is also day-to-day moving forward, Redick said. As is Rui Hachimura<\/a>, who missed the Clippers game because of a right groin strain.<\/p>\n

The Lakers did get some positive injury news Monday, with center Deandre Ayton<\/a> returning to practice after a two-game absence because of soreness in his left elbow.<\/p>\n

Ayton explained how he hurt his elbow the last time the Lakers played the Suns, battling for a rebound against Suns center Mark Williams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It’s a physical game,” Ayton said. I don’t know, the adrenaline was pretty high and [I was] trying to rebound and [got] tangled up boxing out and I think I just hyperextended it a little bit. That’s about it. A little tightness, we checked it out.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave McMenaminDec 23, 2025, 08:10 AM CloseLakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-365398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365398","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=365398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}