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Dave McMenaminFeb 11, 2026, 08:59 PM ET<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Multiple Authors<\/p>\n LOS ANGELES — Lakers<\/a> star Luka Doncic<\/a> will not play Thursday against his former team, the Dallas Mavericks<\/a>, missing his fourth straight game because of a hamstring strain, the team announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n He is still progressing in his rehab and hopes to be able to make an appearance in Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game for the World Team, sources told ESPN.<\/p>\n Doncic, 26, was named to the All-Star Game for the sixth time in his eight-year career, and he was the leading vote-getter for the first time, amassing more than 3 million ballots.<\/p>\n Doncic is 4-0 against Dallas since being traded to the Lakers last season.<\/p>\n He has missed 11 games this season, with L.A. going 5-6 in his absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave McMenaminFeb 11, 2026, 08:59 PM ET CloseLakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-463361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463361","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=463361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\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