{"id":696688,"date":"2026-04-03T22:27:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/696688\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T22:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:27:19","slug":"lakers-reveal-unfortunate-injury-update-on-luka-doncic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/696688\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers Reveal Unfortunate Injury Update on Luka Doncic"},"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=\"66\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/lakers\/onsi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Lakers <\/a>were blown out by the defending NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday night at the Paycom Center, with Shai Gilgeous-Alexander getting the best of the storied franchise with relative ease.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"69\">Along with the Lakers suffering a devastating loss to arguably the best team in the NBA, Los Angeles also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/lakers\/onsi\/injuries\/lakers-star-luka-doncic-suffers-concerning-injury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">saw superstar guard Luka Doncic go down<\/a> with a hamstring injury in the third quarter. He didn&#8217;t return to the game and his status was put in doubt moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Luka Doncic Ruled Out for the Rest of the NBA Regular Season<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6f\">Unfortunately, the Lakers didn&#8217;t get good news after Doncic underwent an MRI on Friday, as he will now miss the remainder of the regular season with a Grade 2 left hamstring, resulting in him being sidelined for the final five games before the NBA playoffs get underway on April 18.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Per Lakers: Luka Don\u010di\u0107 has been diagnosed with a Grade 2 left hamstring strain and will be out for the remainder of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Ward (@RyanWardLA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanWardLA\/status\/2040188063780151319?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6l\">This is a costly loss for the Lakers, to say the least, which could result in a drastically different outcome for the season, especially considering Doncic was playing the best basketball of his NBA career.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6o\">Sign up to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/lakers\/onsi\/newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">free newsletter <\/a>and follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@RyanWardLA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RyanWardLA\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LakersOnSI\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">X\/Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ryanwardla\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> for the latest news.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Lakers were blown out by the defending NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[7,6,310,475,179,3966,3965,312],"class_list":{"0":"post-696688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-oklahoma","11":"tag-oklahoma-city","12":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","13":"tag-oklahomacity","14":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","15":"tag-thunder"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116343134682355798","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696688","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=696688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}