{"id":456949,"date":"2026-02-06T04:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/456949\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T04:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:59:10","slug":"luka-doncic-leaves-lakers-game-against-76ers-with-left-leg-soreness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/456949\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic leaves Lakers&#8217; game against 76ers with left leg soreness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 NBA scoring leader Luka Doncic left the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-lakers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"los-angeles-lakers\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>&#8216; game against Philadelphia on Thursday night with left leg soreness.<\/p>\n<p>Doncic limped to the locker room with 3:03 left in the first half after apparently hurting his left leg on the far end of the court moments earlier. He didn&#8217;t return to the court when the second half began, and the Lakers eventually announced that he would not finish the game.<\/p>\n<p>Doncic leads the league with 33.4 points per game in his first full season with the Lakers. The Slovenian superstar is also second in the league with 8.7 assists.<\/p>\n<p>He had 10 points, four rebounds and five turnovers during the Lakers&#8217; rough first half against the Sixers, missing all four of his 3-point attempts.<\/p>\n<p>Doncic was the NBA&#8217;s Western Conference player of the month for January after averaging 34.0 points on 50.6 per cent shooting with 7.2 rebounds, 9.1 assists and 1.5 steals in a dominant stretch of play.<\/p>\n<p>He was also selected for his sixth All-Star game, voted in as a starter for the annual event at Intuit Dome in nearby Inglewood, California, next weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 NBA scoring leader Luka Doncic left the Los Angeles Lakers&#8216; game against Philadelphia on Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-456949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456949","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=456949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}