{"id":391834,"date":"2026-01-04T21:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T21:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/391834\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T21:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T21:37:07","slug":"kings-zach-lavine-returning-from-ankle-injury-vs-bucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/391834\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings&#8217; Zach LaVine returning from ankle injury vs. Bucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/sac\/sacramento-kings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Kings<\/a> are getting their leading scorer back, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3064440\/zach-lavine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zach LaVine<\/a> is listed as available for Sunday&#8217;s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/mil\/milwaukee-bucks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>LaVine missed nine games after injuring his left ankle Dec. 14 against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/min\/minnesota-timberwolves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> when he landed awkwardly on a drive into the lane.<\/p>\n<p>LaVine, 30, is averaging 20.2 points per game for the Kings, who have struggled to an 8-27 record this season.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento went 2-7 with LaVine out.<\/p>\n<p>Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sacramento Kings are getting their leading scorer back, as Zach LaVine is listed as available for Sunday&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-391834","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\/391834","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=391834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}