{"id":646852,"date":"2026-05-03T11:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646852\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T11:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T11:59:11","slug":"lakers-injury-report-luka-doncic-making-slow-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646852\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers Injury Report: Luka Don\u010di\u0107 making slow progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Lakers may have just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverscreenandroll.com\/lakers-news\/114536\/jj-redick-lakers-mindset-playoffs-luka-doncic-austin-reaves-return-rockets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">extended their season by at least four games<\/a> by advancing to the second round, but it does not mean a return for Luka Don\u010di\u0107 is imminent. In fact, it sounds like he\u2019s pretty far away from getting back on the court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For those without Twitter\/X, here\u2019s her brief report:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThere\u2019s been no timeline. There has been some progress on the court. He\u2019s now doing some movement work in drills, getting up shots. But it is controlled. He hasn\u2019t advanced to 1-on-1 or full-contact work yet. He\u2019s not into any scrimmages so it\u2019s a little than just spot shooting but still a step away from anything live\u2026This remains a slow build towards a return, not an imminent one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">To add to that a little bit, there was also a report of sorts going around Twitter\/X last night that, while I could not find the original source to verify as it came from John Ireland as part of pregame radio coverage, it did fall in line with Hubbarth\u2019s report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Hamstring injuries generally are a much slower recovery and run a high risk of re-injury. The Lakers can\u2019t rush the process. It does seem like the trip to Europe for Luka didn\u2019t change his timeline all that much, though.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">What also isn\u2019t working in Luka\u2019s favor is the pacing of the series. After the first round was spaced out with multiple days of rest between games on more than one occasion, that won\u2019t be the case in the second round. The only time there will be more than one day of rest between games will be between Game 5 and Game 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While the Lakers and Rockets played 6 games in 14 days, the entire second round series will span 13 days even if it goes seven games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">None of this is painting a very promising picture for Luka\u2019s return. Things can change, obviously, but the Lakers are almost certainly going to have to extend their season multiple games to get Luka back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lakers may have just extended their season by at least four games by advancing to the second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,162441,305828,85],"class_list":["post-646852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-lakers-injury-report","tag-lakers-playoffs","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646852","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=646852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}