{"id":234714,"date":"2025-10-18T20:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/234714\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T20:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:20:11","slug":"kings-domantas-sabonis-out-at-least-a-week-with-hamstring-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/234714\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings&#8217; Domantas Sabonis out at least a week with hamstring strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO &#8212; The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e266c4ea-9af3-1bd8-06fb-fd608fd30e26\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/sac\/sacramento-kings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Kings<\/a> have ruled All-Star center <a data-player-guid=\"c2eb1a17-7809-2cc6-3fa7-7a5e63654ae4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3155942\/domantas-sabonis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Domantas Sabonis<\/a> out for their first two regular season games next week because of a Grade 1 hamstring strain, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p>Sabonis left the team&#8217;s preseason loss to the Clippers last Wednesday night with the hamstring issue and then missed the preseason finale in Los Angeles on Friday night while undergoing testing.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46608979\/kings-keegan-murray-agrees-5-year-140m-rookie-extension\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2025\/0326\/r1469438_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46626742\/introducing-espn-basketball-power-index-2025-2026-predictions-23-nba-teams\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2025\/1018\/r1561910_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>It is considered a minor strain, but Sabonis will not be available to the Kings for their season opener in Phoenix on Wednesday night or their home opener against the Jazz next Friday night. The earliest he could return is for a home game on Sunday, Oct. 26 against the Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings are already without fourth-year power forward <a data-player-guid=\"3077c486-4dd1-36e7-ab23-aa28144b7a1b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4594327\/keegan-murray\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keegan Murray<\/a>, who will miss at least a month with a torn UCL in his left thumb. They have tested out second-year center <a data-player-guid=\"dadd16af-8248-3045-be67-3b5c63b4f8c4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5107818\/isaac-jones\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isaac Jones<\/a> and veterans <a data-player-guid=\"ec510d5f-3cb7-033b-ef46-6f3f331f0710\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3032978\/dario-saric\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dario Saric<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"8bde6690-61ad-5afc-76fa-469e5df59ec8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3914285\/drew-eubanks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Eubanks<\/a> in Murray&#8217;s and Sabonis&#8217; place during the preseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO &#8212; The Sacramento Kings have ruled All-Star center Domantas Sabonis out for their first two regular season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-234714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}