{"id":602869,"date":"2026-02-14T14:45:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T14:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/602869\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T14:45:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T14:45:28","slug":"kings-zach-lavine-to-miss-remainder-of-season-due-to-hand-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/602869\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings\u2019 Zach LaVine to Miss Remainder of Season Due to Hand Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6t\">Veteran guard Zach LaVine is slated to undergo season-ending surgery on his right hand following the All-Star break, according to a Friday night report from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChrisBHaynes\/status\/2022470982179656193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NBA on Prime insider Chris Haynes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6w\">LaVine\u2019s season ends as the Kings are at the bottom of the Western Conference with a league-worst 12\u201344 record at the All-Star break. In 39 appearances during his 12th NBA season, he averaged 19.2 points, 2.3 assists and 2.8 rebounds per game while shooting 39% on three-pointers.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6z\">He led Sacramento in scoring this season, in front of fellow veterans DeMar DeRozan, Domantas Sabonis and Russell Westbrook. The premature end to LaVine\u2019s season comes a week after the NBA\u2019s Feb. 5 trade deadline where the Kings decided to mostly stand pat, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/trade-deadline\/cavs-trade-de-andre-hunter-in-three-team-deal-with-kings-bulls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acquiring De&#8217;Andre Hunter<\/a> in exchange for guards Keon Ellis and Dennis Schr\u00f6der.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"72\">The veteran trio of LaVine, Sabonis and DeRozan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/three-potential-zach-lavine-trades-kings-rebuild-after-slow-start\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were involved in trade rumors <\/a>as all three possess large salaries that don\u2019t fit the Kings as the franchise seems poised for a full rebuild. Sacramento likely needed to attach significant draft capital to move off any of its veterans, ultimately keeping the roster mostly in tact at the deadline. LaVine, 30, has a $49 million player option for next season, while Sabonis\u2019s large contract runs through the 2027\u201328 season. DeRozan, 36, has a $25.7 million salary next season.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"75\">Sacramento is in line to receive a high draft pick in the 2026 NBA draft which is headlined by Darryn Peterson of Kansas, BYU\u2019s AJ Dybantsa and Duke\u2019s Cameron Boozer.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran guard Zach LaVine is slated to undergo season-ending surgery on his right hand following the All-Star break,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3792],"tags":[7,4056,6,986,477,4055],"class_list":{"0":"post-602869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento-kings","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-kings","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sacramento","12":"tag-sacramento-kings","13":"tag-sacramentokings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116069526955894143","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602869","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=602869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}