{"id":349409,"date":"2025-12-15T04:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T04:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/349409\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T04:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T04:11:10","slug":"kings-lose-leading-scorer-lavine-ankle-vs-timberwolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/349409\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings lose leading scorer LaVine (ankle) vs. Timberwolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 14, 2025, 09:19 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>MINNEAPOLIS &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/sac\/sacramento-kings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Kings<\/a> leading scorer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3064440\/zach-lavine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zach LaVine<\/a> injured his left ankle midway through the second quarter on Sunday against Minnesota and was ruled out for the rest of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47181302\/nba-25-25-rankings-wemby-ant-flagg-cade-chet-young-stars\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/nba_25_under_25_1296x1296.png&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.png\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47309389\/wolves-star-anthony-edwards-again-foot-injury\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/r1581288_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>LaVine landed awkwardly on his left foot during a drive into the lane, when he got his flip shot to fall, drew a foul and converted the three-point play. The 12th-year veteran guard, who is averaging 20.6 points per game, remained on the floor for about three more minutes while moving around gingerly before he was removed and went to the locker room for evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>The Timberwolves went on to win the game 117-103.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings have been without three-time All-Star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3155942\/domantas-sabonis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Domantas Sabonis<\/a> for nearly a month because of a partially torn meniscus in his left knee, and center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3914285\/drew-eubanks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Eubanks<\/a> suffered a broken left thumb in Sacramento&#8217;s previous game at Denver on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran point guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3032979\/dennis-schroder\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis Schroder<\/a> returned to the Kings on Sunday after a seven-game absence because of a hip injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 14, 2025, 09:19 PM ET MINNEAPOLIS &#8212; Sacramento Kings leading scorer Zach LaVine injured his left ankle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-349409","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\/349409","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=349409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}