{"id":310145,"date":"2025-11-24T04:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/310145\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T04:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:02:09","slug":"lakers-deandre-ayton-exits-win-vs-jazz-with-knee-contusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/310145\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers’ Deandre Ayton exits win vs. Jazz with knee contusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dave McMenaminNov 23, 2025, 10:17 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN.
\nCovered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09.<\/p>\n

SALT LAKE CITY — Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> center Deandre Ayton<\/a> left Sunday night’s 108-106 win<\/a> against the Utah Jazz<\/a> midway through the second quarter with a right knee contusion.<\/p>\n

The injury occurred when Utah rookie Ace Bailey<\/a> collided with Ayton’s knee in the first quarter.<\/p>\n

Ayton finished with two points on 1-for-2 shooting, two rebounds and a steal in 13 minutes.<\/p>\n

The former No. 1 pick has been a bright spot this season, averaging 16.5 points on 69.9% shooting and 8.8 rebounds coming into Sunday.<\/p>\n

Ayton, who signed a two-year, $16.6 million contract in the offseason after reaching a buyout agreement with the Portland Trail Blazers<\/a>, has helped L.A. get off to an 12-4 start while its three stars — LeBron James<\/a>, Luka Doncic<\/a> and Austin Reaves<\/a> — have all missed time because of injuries.<\/p>\n

Lakers backup center Jaxson Hayes<\/a> started the second half in Ayton’s place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave McMenaminNov 23, 2025, 10:17 PM ET CloseLakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-310145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310145","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=310145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}