{"id":495214,"date":"2025-08-19T10:49:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495214"},"modified":"2025-08-19T10:49:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:49:28","slug":"lakers-star-luka-doncic-cleared-after-knee-scare-ahead-of-eurobasket","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lakers-star-luka-doncic-cleared-after-knee-scare-ahead-of-eurobasket\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers star Luka Doncic cleared after knee scare ahead of EuroBasket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"141\" data-end=\"293\">Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Doncic has been cleared to return to play just two days after suffering a right knee injury scare while playing for Slovenia.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"295\" data-end=\"569\">The incident occurred on Saturday against Latvia, when a teammate was pushed to the floor and crashed into Doncic\u2019s legs under the basket. The 26-year-old initially looked in serious pain and left the court with a limp, but later rejoined his teammates on the bench.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Luka Doncic was injured his Right Knee on this play here.<\/p>\n<p>The force went from the inside of the knee to outside of the knee<\/p>\n<p>The worry would be for<\/p>\n<p>-LCL sprain<\/p>\n<p>Would still need to rule out ACL injury but looks like his foot wasn\u2019t planted during contact so impact and\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0Zybh0eFzt\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/0Zybh0eFzt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dr. Evan Jeffries, DPT (@GameInjuryDoc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GameInjuryDoc\/status\/1956763547633176831?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"571\" data-end=\"783\">Medical checks have since confirmed no major damage, allowing Doncic to resume preparations with Slovenia ahead of EuroBasket. The national team is scheduled to play Great Britain in a warm-up match on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"785\" data-end=\"1204\">Doncic, who joined the Lakers in a blockbuster February trade from the Dallas Mavericks, signed a three-year, $165 million extension earlier this month. He averaged 28.2 points, 8.1 rebounds and 7.5 assists in 28 games for Los Angeles last season, continuing the elite form that has defined his career. Over seven NBA seasons, Doncic holds averages of 28.6 points, 8.6 rebounds and 8.2 assists across 450 appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Doncic has been cleared to return to play just two days after suffering a right knee injury scare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":495215,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16970,16747,26580,19404],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17645,18115,26577,19406],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Slovenia will have their star back after being concerned of his fall against Latvia","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495216,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495214\/revisions\/495216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495214"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495214"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}