{"id":601501,"date":"2026-02-13T20:43:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/601501\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T20:43:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:43:24","slug":"luka-doncic-expected-to-play-in-nba-all-star-game-after-workout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/601501\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic expected to play in NBA All-Star Game after workout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> enter the NBA All-Star break in a surprisingly precarious situation. They are fifth in the Western Conference at 33-21 following Thursday&#8217;s defeat of the Dallas Mavericks. But injuries have wreaked havoc over the first half, with <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/players\/b74d0a0c\/luka-doncic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luka Doncic<\/a> being the latest to go down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\/lakers-news-luka-doncic-will-not-play-mavericks-before-all-star-break\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Doncic suffered a hamstring injury<\/a> last week, missing the last couple of games. But on Friday, it was revealed that Doncic is <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/2022404261402034366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">intending on playing<\/a> in the All-Star Game on Sunday, according to Marc Stein.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers&#8217; superstar underwent a pregame workout on Thursday. It apparently went well enough for him to get a green light for at least limited action.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story with more to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Lakers enter the NBA All-Star break in a surprisingly precarious situation. They are fifth in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3790],"tags":[7,4034,1698,300,4044,251,150,4033,4043,368,6,14502],"class_list":{"0":"post-601501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-lakers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-lakers","11":"tag-lakers","12":"tag-lalakers","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-losangeleslakers","17":"tag-luka-doncic","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-nba-injury"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116065272122511592","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601501","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=601501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}