{"id":580425,"date":"2026-04-03T22:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/580425\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T22:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:21:08","slug":"lakers-doncic-hamstring-to-miss-remainder-of-regular-season-playoff-status-uncertain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/580425\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers\u2019 Doncic (hamstring) to miss remainder of regular season, playoff status uncertain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/los-angeles-lakers\/13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/los-angeles-lakers\/13\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/1121277\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/1121277\" target=\"_blank\">Luka Doncic<\/a> will miss the remainder of the regular season with a left hamstring injury, ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Doncic will be out indefinitely and his status for the playoffs is uncertain, adds Charania.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Doncic is out indefinitely due to a left hamstring injury, sources tell me and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcten?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@mcten<\/a>. He will miss the remainder of the regular season and his status is uncertain beyond that. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qQTVAfPpWB\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/qQTVAfPpWB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2040187516754518125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 27-year-old forward exited Thursday\u2019s 139-96 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/25\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> with the injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He appeared to tweak his hamstring in the first half, before hurting it again in the third quarter. He limped off gingerly to the dressing room and did not return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 64 games played for the Lakers this season, Doncic averaged 33.5 points per game to go along with 8.3 assists and 7.7 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Los Angeles (50-27) is third in the Western Conference with five games remaining in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">More to come.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Doncic will miss the remainder of the regular season with a left hamstring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[712,49,48,114816,120481,459,82],"class_list":["post-580425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-los-angeles-lakers-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-13","tag-luka-doncic-sports-basketball-player-player-statscom-1121277","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580425","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=580425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}