{"id":561957,"date":"2026-04-03T10:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/561957\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T10:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T10:10:07","slug":"lakers-injury-report-luka-doncic-leaves-thunder-game-with-leg-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/561957\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers Injury Report: Luka Don\u010di\u0107 leaves Thunder game with leg injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On a night where everything that could go wrong did for the Lakers, the biggest blow did not come on the scoreboard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the third quarter of Thursday\u2019s demoralizing loss to the Thunder, Luka Don\u010di\u0107 came to a stop for a jumper and immediately grabbed the back of his left leg. He lost the ball and hobbled to the baseline before lying down on the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to multiple reports, Luka will undergo an MRI on Friday to determine the severity of his hamstring strain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The broadcast showed Luka walking off on his own power, but clearly upset. He went straight to the Lakers\u2019 locker room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Luka was ruled out for the rest of the game after the third quarter, which was not a shock given the score as the Thunder led by 45 going into the fourth. Not long after Luka suffered his injury, the rest of the Lakers\u2019 starters were pulled from the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It was the capper on a brutal night for the Lakers, who were throttled by the Thunder from the opening tip. Luka grabbed at his left hamstring multiple times throughout the night, but did not seem hobbled by the injury until the moment in the second half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After the game, head coach JJ Redick said that Luka received treatment at halftime for a hamstring injury and was cleared to play by the training staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Of note, Thursday was Luka\u2019s 64th game of the season, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverscreenandroll.com\/lakers-news\/103515\/lakers-tracker-lebron-james-luka-doncic-austin-reaves-nba-awards-games-missed-eligible\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">leaving him one game short of the 65-game minimum<\/a> to be eligible for postseason awards. While he\u2019s a long shot for MVP, he\u2019s a shoo-in for First Team All-NBA if he can play one more game this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This live story will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On a night where everything that could go wrong did for the Lakers, the biggest blow did not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[211937,99],"class_list":["post-561957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-lakers-injury-report","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561957","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=561957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}