{"id":70829,"date":"2026-04-03T17:56:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/luka-doncic-will-miss-rest-of-lakers-regular-season-with-hamstring-strain\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T17:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:56:24","slug":"luka-doncic-will-miss-rest-of-lakers-regular-season-with-hamstring-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/luka-doncic-will-miss-rest-of-lakers-regular-season-with-hamstring-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Don\u010di\u0107 will miss rest of Lakers\u2019 regular season with hamstring strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>NBA scoring leader hurt in Thursday\u2019s loss to Thunder<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>LA have five games left before postseason begins<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Absence may force Don\u010di\u0107 out of individual awards race<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Luka Don\u010di\u0107 will miss the rest of the Los Angeles Lakers\u2019 regular season with a Grade 2 strain of his left hamstring, the team announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u010di\u0107 is the NBA\u2019s top scorer and the driving force behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/20\/luka-doncic-60-lakers-heat-lebron-triple-double-miami\">the Lakers\u2019 surge<\/a> into the third spot in the Western Conference standings, but he injured his leg during Los Angeles\u2019 blowout 139-96 loss to Oklahoma City on Thursday. An MRI exam revealed the severity of the strain.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/03\/luka-doncic-nba-awards-injury-update-hamstring\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBA scoring leader hurt in Thursday\u2019s loss to Thunder LA have five games left before postseason begins Absence may force Don\u010di\u0107 out of individual awards race Luka Don\u010di\u0107 will miss the rest of the Los Angeles Lakers\u2019 regular season with a Grade 2 strain of his left hamstring, the team announced Friday. Don\u010di\u0107 is the &#8230; <a title=\"Luka Don\u010di\u0107 will miss rest of Lakers\u2019 regular season with hamstring strain\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/luka-doncic-will-miss-rest-of-lakers-regular-season-with-hamstring-strain\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Luka Don\u010di\u0107 will miss rest of Lakers\u2019 regular season with hamstring strain\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}