{"id":700031,"date":"2026-04-05T18:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/700031\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T18:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T18:50:19","slug":"jarred-vanderbilt-receives-final-injury-designation-for-lakers-vs-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/700031\/","title":{"rendered":"Jarred Vanderbilt Receives Final Injury Designation for Lakers vs. Mavericks"},"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=\"6g\">After the loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder earlier this week, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/lakers\/onsi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> were hit with bad news, one after the other, as the team won&#8217;t have stars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/lakers\/onsi\/injuries\/lakers-reveal-unfortunate-injury-update-on-luka-doncic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Luka Doncic<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/lakers\/onsi\/news\/austin-reaves-could-land-massive-lakers-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Austin Reaves<\/a> for the rest of the regular season due to injuries.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6j\">Along with Reaves and Doncic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/lakers\/onsi\/injuries\/lakers-receive-injury-update-on-austin-reaves-marcus-smart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marcus Smart<\/a> is still on the mend with a right ankle contusion, which will keep him sidelined for Sunday&#8217;s road game against the Dallas Mavericks. This is also a significant concern moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Jarred Vanderbilt is Available to Play vs. Mavericks<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jarred Vanderbilt (right calf soreness) has been upgraded to AVAILABLE for tonight\u2019s game at Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Ward (@RyanWardLA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanWardLA\/status\/2040852238260900188?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6s\">Veteran forward Jarred Vanderbilt also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/lakers\/onsi\/news\/lakers-release-disappointing-injury-report-ahead-of-mavericks-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">popped up on the Lakers&#8217; injury report<\/a> on Saturday, as he is dealing with right calf soreness. However, he has been upgraded from questionable to available, giving the team another body off the bench.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6v\">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\">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":"After the loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder earlier this week, the Los Angeles Lakers were hit with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,166,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-700031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-dallasmavericks","12":"tag-mavericks","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116353605807414431","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700031","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=700031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}