\n\t\t\tOctober 24th 2025 at 4:08pm CST by Rory Maher \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Kings star Domantas Sabonis<\/a> will make his season debut in Friday\u2019s home opener against Utah, as James Ham of TheKingsBeat.com relays (via Twitter<\/a>).<\/p>\n Sabonis sustained<\/a> a right hamstring injury during a preseason contest on October 15. Sacramento subsequently referred to the ailment as a Grade 1 strain<\/a> and said he\u2019d be reevaluated in a week, with an expectation that he\u2019d be out for the first two games of the season \u2014 instead he\u2019ll only miss one.<\/p>\n The 29-year-old center was spotted shooting at Thursday\u2019s practice<\/a> and was initially listed as questionable<\/a> for Friday\u2019s matchup with the Jazz before being upgraded to available.<\/p>\n Here are a few more injury-related notes from around the NBA:<\/p>\n Veteran big man Kristaps Porzingis<\/a> will miss his first regular season game with the Hawks on Friday due to flu-like symptoms, tweets<\/a> Brad Rowland of Locked On Hawks. A league source tells Lauren L. Williams of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Porzingis participated in the Hawks\u2019 shootaround on Friday morning but started feeling ill in the afternoon (Twitter link<\/a>). Atlanta plays at Orlando. Porzingis, who was acquired from Boston in an offseason trade, recorded 20 points, seven rebounds and two blocks in Wednesday\u2019s disappointing blowout loss to Toronto.
\nAfter exiting<\/a> Thursday\u2019s opener against Oklahoma City with left shoulder soreness, Pacers guard Andrew Nembhard<\/a> will undergo additional testing to determine the severity of the injury, head coach Rick Carlisle said after the thrilling double-overtime loss (Twitter link<\/a> via Scott Agness of Fieldhouse Files). \u201cWe\u2019ll find out more (Friday). He\u2019s going to get some tests done. But this is going to potentially present some big challenges.\u201d As we noted last night, Indiana\u2019s point guard depth is very shaky at the moment due to several injuries.
\nWarriors wing Moses Moody<\/a> suffered a left calf injury<\/a> during a practice a couple weeks ago, causing him to miss Golden State\u2019s final three preseason games as well as Thursday\u2019s win against Denver. But he\u2019ll be back for Friday\u2019s matchup in Portland, which is the second of a back-to-back, according to Anthony Slater of ESPN (Twitter link<\/a>). Al Horford<\/a> will be out with left toe injury management, Slater adds, which was expected<\/a>.
\nMagic head coach Jamahl Mosley provided a minor injury update on forward\/center Moritz Wagner<\/a> on Friday, writes Jason Beede of The Orlando Sentinel<\/a>. Wagner is recovering from a torn ACL he sustained last December. \u201cMoe right now is just still doing the non-contact work, continuing to strengthen his body,\u201d Mosley said. \u201cBut his spirits are still great. You can see him on the bench throughout our games continuing to coach, using his voice, using his encouragement. But body-wise, it\u2019s just still continuing with the non-contact work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"October 24th 2025 at 4:08pm CST by Rory Maher Kings star Domantas Sabonis will make his season debut…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[869,1784,7,4672,871,8423,1104],"class_list":{"0":"post-364649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-al-horford","9":"tag-andrew-nembhard","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-domantas-sabonis","12":"tag-kristaps-porzingis","13":"tag-moritz-wagner","14":"tag-moses-moody"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115431584838597328","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}