Los Angeles Lakers vs Dallas Mavericks injury report: Who’s playing, injured and questionable players, head-to-head records, team stats, and more (January 24, 2026)<\/a><\/p>\nWhat\u2019s at Stake for Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks<\/p>\n
Both teams are leaning on their stars because of injuries. The Lakers have held up well on the road, while Dallas has been competitive at home. With limited depth on both sides, the outcome is likely to come down to how much control Doncic and James can establish early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks vs Los Angeles Lakers. Image via: Getty Images Luka Doncic is expected to play on January…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[196,147,5278,5,52957,52926,52955,52954,52956,4,197],"class_list":{"0":"post-426970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-stars","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-stars","10":"tag-dallasstars","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-lakers-injury-report-january-24","13":"tag-los-angeles-lakers-vs-dallas-mavericks","14":"tag-luka-doncic-game-tonight","15":"tag-luka-doncic-injury-update","16":"tag-luka-doncic-scoring-average","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-stars"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115954473239107691","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Dallas Mavericks vs Los Angeles Lakers. Image via: Getty Images Luka Doncic is expected to play on January 24, 2026, when the Los Angeles Lakers face the Dallas Mavericks. He is not listed on the injury report and is set to lead the Lakers alongside LeBron James as the team manages a short-handed rotation.This will be another return to Dallas for Luka Doncic, where he spent the early part of his career. Since joining Los Angeles, he has played Dallas three times and won all three. That includes a 45-point performance in his first game against them after the trade. He comes into this matchup averaging 33.4 points per game, the highest mark in the league.<\/p>\n