{"id":359142,"date":"2025-12-20T02:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T02:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/359142\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T02:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T02:05:07","slug":"kings-domantas-sabonis-out-another-month-with-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/359142\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings’ Domantas Sabonis out another month with knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dec 19, 2025, 08:21 PM ET<\/p>\n

Sacramento Kings<\/a> center Domantas Sabonis<\/a> is expected to miss four to five more weeks as he continues to recover from a partial meniscus tear in his left knee, the team announced Friday.<\/p>\n

A three-time All-Star, Sabonis has not played since Nov. 16, a span of 13 games in which the Kings have gone 3-10. He initially sat out Nov. 19 because of what the team deemed left knee soreness, but further testing revealed the tear.<\/p>\n

It has been an injury-riddled season for Sabonis, who missed the regular-season opener after a hamstring strain in the preseason, then sat out two games in early November because of a rib issue. He previously had been a pillar of durability in Sacramento, playing 79, 82 and 70 games the past three seasons.<\/p>\n

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Sabonis was averaging 17.2 points and 12.3 rebounds in 11 games this season before getting hurt. He led the league in rebounding the past three seasons.<\/p>\n

Sabonis’ absence has given an opportunity to second-round rookie Maxime Raynaud<\/a>, who is averaging 9.6 points and 5.1 rebounds since Sabonis got hurt. Raynaud is averaging 16.3 points and 7.5 rebounds in his past eight games.<\/p>\n

The Kings have struggled all season and are near the bottom of the standings in the Western Conference with a 6-21 record.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 19, 2025, 08:21 PM ET Sacramento Kings center Domantas Sabonis is expected to miss four to five…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-359142","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\/359142","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=359142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}