{"id":137623,"date":"2026-01-17T11:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/137623\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:18:12","slug":"kings-star-domantas-sabonis-returns-against-wizards-after-missing-27-games-because-of-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/137623\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings star Domantas Sabonis returns against Wizards after missing 27 games because of knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Sacramento Kings star Domantas Sabonis returned Friday night against Washington after missing 27 games because of a partially torn meniscus in his left knee.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time All-Star forward\/center came off the bench, entering with 5:11 left in the first quarter in the Kings\u2019 128-115 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Sabonis scored 13 points and had seven rebounds and five assists in a little over 21 minutes. He was 5 of 6 from field, with the miss coming from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Schroder also was back for the Kings after serving a three-game suspension for confronting Lakers star Luka Doncic after a game in Los Angeles. Schroder had 15 points and five assists.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings have won the first three games of a seven-game homestand to improve to 12-30. They opened the run against Houston, then beat the Lakers and New York.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Sacramento Kings star Domantas Sabonis returned Friday night against Washington after missing 27 games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[10116,7,47689,24541,27996,7003,47,2497,7551,546,552,129,7592,121,123,128,122,127,45724,14424],"class_list":["post-137623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-california","tag-dc-wire","tag-dennis-schroder","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-domantas-sabonis","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-luka-doncic","tag-maryland","tag-md-state-wire","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-transactions","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137623","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=137623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}