{"id":949795,"date":"2026-10-28T20:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/949795\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T20:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T20:34:09","slug":"lakers-luka-doncic-out-vs-clippers-with-back-tightness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/949795\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers&#8217; Luka Doncic out vs. Clippers with back tightness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Injuries appear to be hitting all the big names across the NBA in the early going of the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p><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> superstar Luka Doncic has been ruled out of Wednesday&#8217;s showdown against the Los Angeles Clippers with back tightness, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p>The game against the Clippers comes on the second half of a back-to-back after the Lakers lost 136-129 to the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday, and the decision to keep him out could be more precautionary than not.<\/p>\n<p>Doncic, 27, has been on a scoring tear to start the season, averaging a league-leading 36 points on 48.4 per cent shooting from the field and 39.6 per cent from three-point range, along with 6.8 rebounds and 8.3 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers have gotten off to a strong start with Doncic at the wheel, opening the season with wins over the Golden State Warriors, Clippers and Utah Jazz, before losing Tuesday&#8217;s game against Portland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Injuries appear to be hitting all the big names across the NBA in the early going of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-949795","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\/949795","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=949795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}