{"id":103432,"date":"2025-12-21T05:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T05:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/103432\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T05:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T05:32:08","slug":"lakers-star-luka-doncic-suffers-leg-injury-against-the-clippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/103432\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers star Luka Doncic suffers leg injury against the Clippers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lakers<\/a> star <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2025-12-17\/luka-doncic-gifts-more-than-100-e-bikes-to-lakers-players-staff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luka Doncic<\/a> sustained a left leg contusion Saturday night against the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/clippers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clippers<\/a> and will not return to the game, the Lakers announced.<\/p>\n<p>Doncic played 19 minutes in the first half, but he didn\u2019t return for the start of the third quarter at Intuit Dome.<\/p>\n<p>He had 12 points, five rebounds and two assists in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>But Doncic had struggled with his shooting, going four for 13 from the field and one for six from three-point range.<\/p>\n<p>Doncic entered the game as the leading scorer in the NBA, averaging 35.2 points per game, and was third in assists, averaging 9.1.<\/p>\n<p>Injuries have proven to be a nuisance this season for the Lakers. Rui Hachimura missed his first start of the season because of a sore groin that is expected to keep him out three to five days. Austin Reaves (left calf) and Deandre Ayton (left elbow) also are out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lakers star Luka Doncic sustained a left leg contusion Saturday night against the Clippers and will not return&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6265,6665,11153,423,16309,48,52,51,10356,56179,47,50,49,63,7551,5463,1417,7556,428,14921,43356],"class_list":["post-103432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-assist","tag-clippers","tag-first-half","tag-game","tag-intuit-dome","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-laker","tag-leg-contusion","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-luka-doncic","tag-minute","tag-point","tag-rebound","tag-start","tag-third-quarter","tag-three-point-range"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}