{"id":388560,"date":"2026-01-05T04:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T04:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/388560\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T04:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T04:43:12","slug":"sources-clippers-jones-jr-out-with-another-mcl-sprain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/388560\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Clippers&#8217; Jones Jr. out with another MCL sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"083a58a6-b849-3501-e67b-059290d12295\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lac\/la-clippers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LA Clippers<\/a> forward <a data-player-guid=\"43d66d12-a645-9585-46c2-d9d5fc2eb879\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3936099\/derrick-jones-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Derrick Jones Jr<\/a>. was diagnosed with a Grade 2 right MCL sprain and will be reevaluated in six weeks, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Jones was four games into his return from another MCL sprain in the same knee, an injury that kept him out more than a month. He suffered this latest sprain in Saturday&#8217;s loss to the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2ca761df-5f60-b2e9-22ed-e099c46d889b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-celtics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Celtics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jones&#8217; return had coincided with a recent turnaround for the Clippers, who were riding a six-game winning streak until the loss to Boston.<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers did get big man <a data-player-guid=\"314d5203-a973-39ef-ad47-e6bcd46f77fd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4017837\/ivica-zubac\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ivica Zubac<\/a> back Saturday from an ankle sprain that kept him out for two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LA Clippers forward Derrick Jones Jr. was diagnosed with a Grade 2 right MCL sprain and will be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-388560","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\/388560","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=388560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}