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Dave McMenaminFeb 6, 2026, 04:09 PM<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Multiple Authors<\/p>\n LOS ANGELES — Lakers<\/a> star Luka Doncic<\/a> limped off the court late in the second quarter and was ruled out for the rest of Thursday’s 119-115 win over the Philadelphia 76ers<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Lakers initially described Doncic’s injury as left leg soreness, but head coach JJ Redick said Doncic will undergo an MRI on his left hamstring Friday.<\/p>\n “Yeah, he felt some soreness in his hamstring, so he didn’t feel like it was good enough to go back in,” Redick said. “Neither did [our] medical [staff], so we held him out. And he’ll get some imaging. I mean, too early to say if there’s an injury, but just had a sore hamstring.”<\/p>\n Doncic scored 10 points on 3-for-10 shooting with four rebounds, two assists and five turnovers in 16 minutes of play before subbing out with 3:03 remaining in the first half. On his way off the floor, Doncic kicked the scorer’s table in frustration and then hunched over the table with his arms covering his face.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks 1 Related<\/p>\n He did not emerge from the locker room after halftime, with Rui Hachimura<\/a> taking his place with the first unit. Hachimura finished with 14 points and seven rebounds and sealed the win with a dunk to double L.A.’s lead from two to four with 12.3 seconds left.<\/p>\n Doncic, who has missed eight games this season because of various leg injuries, came into the night leading the league in scoring with 33.4 points per game — along with 8.7 assists and 7.9 rebounds.<\/p>\n Thursday was just the 10th game this season that Doncic, LeBron James<\/a> and Austin Reaves<\/a> were all in uniform together — James missed the first 14 games of the season because of sciatica that affected his lower back and right side, and Reaves just returned Tuesday from a 19-game absence because of a left calf strain.<\/p>\n Reaves was superb in leading the Lakers back from a 14-point third-quarter deficit to the victory, scoring 35 points on 12-for-17 shooting in just 25 minutes because of a playing time restriction as he ramps back up from the calf injury. James shook off a 2-for-9 start from the field to finish with 17 points and 10 assists, though he tied his season worst with eight turnovers.<\/p>\n L.A. next hosts the Golden State Warriors on Saturday. Doncic’s availability is yet to be determined.<\/p>\n “Hopefully nothing major,” Reaves said of Doncic’s injury. “We need him. He’s our best player and the engine [for] a lot of the stuff we do. Hopefully we get good news [Friday], and I wish him nothing the best.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave McMenaminFeb 6, 2026, 04:09 PM CloseLakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-461979","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\/461979","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=461979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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