{"id":361287,"date":"2025-12-21T05:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T05:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/361287\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T05:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T05:31:08","slug":"lakers-lose-luka-doncic-to-leg-contusion-vs-clippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/361287\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers lose Luka Doncic to leg contusion vs. Clippers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dave McMenaminDec 21, 2025, 12:13 AM 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

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> star Luka Doncic<\/a> suffered a left leg contusion in the first half of Saturday’s game against the LA Clippers<\/a> and was ruled out for the rest of the game at halftime, the team said.<\/p>\n

Doncic came into the night leading the NBA in scoring with a career-best 35.2 points per game to go with 9.1 assists, 8.8 rebounds and1.7 steals.<\/p>\n

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He struggled in the first half against the Clippers, scoring 12 points on 4-of-13 shooting (1-of-6 on 3-pointers), five rebounds, two assists and four turnovers and the Lakers trailed 54-39 at the break.<\/p>\n

The Lakers were already missing three starters in Austin Reaves<\/a> (left calf), Deandre Ayton<\/a> (left elbow) and Rui Hachimura<\/a> (right groin).<\/p>\n

Dalton Knecht<\/a> started the second half in Doncic’s place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave McMenaminDec 21, 2025, 12:13 AM ET CloseLakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-361287","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\/361287","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=361287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}