{"id":359166,"date":"2025-12-21T06:05:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/359166\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T06:05:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:05:24","slug":"luka-doncic-exits-lakers-game-with-leg-injury-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/359166\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Don\u010di\u0107 exits Lakers game with leg injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1964873\" class=\"wp-image-1964873 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/doncic-iso-122025-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1443\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1964873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lakers said Luka Don\u010di\u0107, the league\u2019s leading scorer, sustained a left leg contusion.<\/p>\n<p>INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Luka Don\u010di\u0107 suffered an injury and didn\u2019t return after halftime of the Los Anglees Lakers\u2019 game against the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers said the NBA\u2019s leading scorer sustained a left leg contusion. Don\u010di\u0107 leads the league at 35.2 points per game, just ahead of Oklahoma City\u2019s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander at 32.5.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u010di\u0107 had 12 points, five rebounds and two assists while playing 19 minutes in the first half, when the visiting Lakers trailed 54-39. He missed his first six shots while picking up a technical foul.<\/p>\n<p>His absence left the Lakers even more shorthanded.<\/p>\n<p>Rui Hachimura missed his first start of the season. The forward who averages 13.3 points has a sore groin that occurred after Thursday\u2019s game at Utah. He\u2019s expected to be out 3 to 5 days.<\/p>\n<p>The team hopes to get Deandre Ayton (left elbow) and Austin Reaves (left calf) back soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lakers said Luka Don\u010di\u0107, the league\u2019s leading scorer, sustained a left leg contusion. INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,12887,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-359166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-luka-doncic","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}