{"id":84766,"date":"2025-12-07T06:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T06:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/84766\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T06:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T06:56:10","slug":"lakers-star-luka-doncic-might-play-sunday-after-birth-of-second-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/84766\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers star Luka Doncic might play Sunday after birth of second child"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2025-11-25\/los-angeles-lakers-la-clippers-nba-game-recap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luka Doncic<\/a> was removed from the team\u2019s status report entering Sunday\u2019s game at Philadelphia after <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Lakers<\/a> superstar and his fiancee announced <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DR7Ao_ygJPC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the birth of their second child<\/a>  Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Doncic  missed the last two games, but before Friday\u2019s game against Boston, coach JJ Redick was open to the possibility of him rejoining the team in time for Sunday\u2019s road trip finale. The Lakers (16-6) went 1-1 to begin the trip with a thrilling, three-point win in Toronto on Thursday before getting blown out in Boston.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2025-12-04\/los-angeles-lakers-toronto-raptors-nba-game-recap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LeBron James<\/a>, who also  missed Friday\u2019s game because of  sciatica and joint arthritis in his left foot, is questionable to return Sunday. The 40-year-old has played in only six of the Lakers\u2019 22 games.<\/p>\n<p>Guard Marcus Smart will miss a sixth consecutive game because of a left lumbar muscle strain.<\/p>\n<p>Doncic, who shared a photo of his new daughter, Olivia, on social media, leads the NBA with 35.3 points per game. If he returns against the 76ers (13-9), the game will feature three of the league\u2019s top five scorers.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia guard Tyrese Maxey ranks third with 31.6 points per game and Lakers guard <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2025-11-28\/los-angeles-lakers-dallas-mavericks-nba-game-recap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Reaves<\/a> is fifth with 29.3 points. Reaves\u2019 career season has helped the Lakers go 4-2 in games without Doncic, as Reaves is averaging 40 points per game without Doncic in the lineup.<\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic was removed from the team\u2019s status report entering Sunday\u2019s game at Philadelphia after the Lakers superstar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[19538,3333,10980,2424,423,48,52,51,47807,47,50,49,63,7551,9330,1417,278,47808,776,427,315],"class_list":["post-84766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-austin-reaves","tag-birth","tag-boston","tag-friday","tag-game","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lakers-superstar","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-luka-doncic","tag-philadelphia","tag-point","tag-season","tag-second-child","tag-sunday","tag-team","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84766","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=84766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}