{"id":546950,"date":"2026-01-19T15:44:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/546950\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T15:44:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:44:32","slug":"lakers-get-positive-luka-doncic-injury-news-after-blazers-loss-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/546950\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers get positive Luka Doncic injury news after Blazers loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lakers get positive Luka Doncic injury news after Blazers loss<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Luka Doncic didn\u2019t suit up for the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>\u2019 Saturday night battle against the Portland Trail Blazers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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According to the Lakers\u2019 injury report, the superstar guard is dealing with a groin injury. Just to confirm that everything is fine, the Lakers ordered an MRI for the All-Star. Fortunately, everything came back clear, according to the head coach, JJ Redick.<\/p>\n

When the head coach was asked about the reason behind Doncic\u2019s absence at the start of the back-to-back set, Redick made it clear it was \u201cmore an accumulation\u201d of playing three games in four nights.<\/p>\n

Since Doncic isn\u2019t dealing with a major injury, the Lakers are going to consider him day-to-day for the time being.<\/p>\n

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The Lakers last saw Doncic on the court as they faced the Charlotte Hornets<\/a> on January 15. In that matchup, Doncic didn\u2019t have any restrictions, checking in for nearly 36 minutes.<\/p>\n

The star guard shot 15-26 from the field, hitting on 6-11 shots from three. Doncic scored 39 points, while dishing out four assists and coming down with three rebounds. The Lakers came up short with a 135-117 loss.<\/p>\n

Without Doncic on Saturday, the Lakers didn\u2019t fare much better as a team. Facing the Portland Trail Blazers, the Lakers took on a dominant loss, falling short 132-116. It was Doncic\u2019s first absence since December 23.<\/p>\n

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Although the star guard has been dealing with some minor ailments throughout the year, the Lakers guard is still having a strong run. In 32 games, Doncic has averaged 33.6 points per game, which is around his career-high. He\u2019s also coming down with 7.7 rebounds per game and passing out 8.7 assists per game.<\/p>\n

The Lakers are scheduled for a 9:30 PM ET tip on Sunday night against the Toronto Raptors<\/a>. Doncic\u2019s status for the matchup remains unclear, as the Lakers haven\u2019t announced statuses just yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lakers get positive Luka Doncic injury news after Blazers loss originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,473,27495,1661,150,368,6,687,471,3967,476,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-546950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers","10":"tag-charlotte-hornets","11":"tag-groin-injury","12":"tag-jj-redick","13":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","14":"tag-luka-doncic","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-portland","17":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","18":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","19":"tag-toronto-raptors","20":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115922538587610224","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546950","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=546950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}