{"id":610883,"date":"2026-02-19T03:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/610883\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T03:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:30:24","slug":"kings-sabonis-lavine-out-for-rest-of-season-after-surgeries-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/610883\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings&#8217; Sabonis, LaVine out for rest of season after surgeries :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Sacramento Kings center Domantas Sabonis and guard Zach LaVine will miss the rest of the season after undergoing surgeries Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sabonis, a three-time All-Star, averaged 15.8 points and a team-leading 11.4 rebounds in 19 games this season. He was used sparingly since suffering a meniscus tear in November, playing in seven of Sacramento\u2019s final eight games in January and appearing in only one game in February.<\/p>\n<p>Sabonis, 29, had surgery in Los Angeles and will begin rehabilitation soon. The team said he will be re-evaluated prior to the start of training camp.<\/p>\n<p>LaVine had surgery to repair a tendon on his right pinky finger. The 30-year-old guard, who was a hot topic at the trade deadline, is in his second season with the Kings. He averaged 19.2 points and 2.3 assists in 39 games.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings also said backup center Dylan Caldwell had an MRI on his left ankle that revealed an ankle sprain. He will be reevaluated in four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>__<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Sacramento Kings center Domantas Sabonis and guard Zach LaVine will miss the rest of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[56984,2097,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-610883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ap-sports","9":"tag-associated-press","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116095184701692412","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610883","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=610883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}