{"id":870343,"date":"2026-10-28T23:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T23:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/870343\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T23:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T23:00:53","slug":"luka-doncic-sitting-out-lakers-visit-to-clippers-with-back-tightness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/870343\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Don\u010di\u0107 sitting out Lakers\u2019 visit to Clippers with back tightness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The NBA\u2019s leading scorer (36.0 points per game) will sit out the second game of the Lakers\u2019 first back-to-back set this season.<\/p>\n

INGLEWOOD (AP) \u2014 Luka Don\u010di\u0107 is sitting out of the Los Angeles Lakers\u2019 game against the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday night because of back tightness.<\/p>\n

Don\u010di\u0107 is the reigning NBA scoring champion and he leads the league again with 36.0 points per game this season after scoring 41<\/a> against Portland on Tuesday night. The Trail Blazers won 136-129, handing the Lakers (3-1) their first loss of the season.<\/p>\n

The Lakers are holding out Don\u010di\u0107 from the second game in their first back-to-back set of the season as they travel down the I-110 freeway to face the Clippers for the second time<\/a> in a week.<\/p>\n

Lakers starting forward Ziaire Williams is also sitting out with left foot soreness.<\/p>\n

Don\u010di\u0107 has won two of the past three NBA scoring titles, but he has not played in more than 70 games in a season since his rookie campaign in 2018-19 with Dallas. He was limited to 64 games last season and didn\u2019t return after injuring his hamstring in early April, missing all of the Lakers\u2019 two-round playoff run.<\/p>\n

Doncic has played in 96 of the Lakers\u2019 121 regular-season games since the team acquired him in a blockbuster trade with the Mavericks in early 2025 \u2014 and he was sidelined with a calf injury when the Lakers made the trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA\u2019s leading scorer (36.0 points per game) will sit out the second game of the Lakers\u2019 first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[102022,7,559,4034,192,4032,300,251,135,4033,4031,368,6],"class_list":["post-870343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-clippers","tag-back-tightness","tag-basketball","tag-clippers","tag-la","tag-la-clippers","tag-laclippers","tag-lakers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesclippers","tag-luka-doncic","tag-nba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117521028747045876","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870343","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=870343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}