{"id":543499,"date":"2026-01-17T21:22:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T21:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/543499\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T21:22:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T21:22:55","slug":"kings-star-domantas-sabonis-returns-against-wizards-after-missing-27-games-because-of-knee-injury-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/543499\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings star Domantas Sabonis returns against Wizards after missing 27 games because of knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SACRAMENTO, Calif. &#8212; Sacramento Kings star Domantas Sabonis returned Friday night against Washington after missing 27 games because of a partially torn meniscus in his left knee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The three-time All-Star forward\/center came off the bench against the Wizards, entering with 5:11 left in the first quarter. He had eight points, five rebounds and an assist in 9:58 in the first half to help the Kings take a 67-61 lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Sabonis averaged 17.2 points and 12.3 rebounds in his first 11 games this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Dennis Schroder also was back for the Kings after serving a three-game suspension for confronting Lakers star Luka Doncic after a game in Los Angeles on Dec. 28. Schroder had six points in the half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Kings won the first three games of their seven-game homestand, topping Houston, the Los Angeles Lakers and New York to improve to 11-30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">AP NBA: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. &#8212; Sacramento Kings star Domantas Sabonis returned Friday night against Washington after missing 27 games because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3792],"tags":[74644,1297,2889,7,4056,6,446,986,477,4055,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-543499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento-kings","8":"tag-74644","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-kings","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nba-basketball","15":"tag-sacramento","16":"tag-sacramento-kings","17":"tag-sacramentokings","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115912546900169992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543499","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=543499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}