{"id":508686,"date":"2026-02-18T19:22:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=508686"},"modified":"2026-02-18T19:23:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:23:01","slug":"kings-sabonis-lavine-have-campaign-ending-procedures","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/kings-sabonis-lavine-have-campaign-ending-procedures\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings\u2018 Sabonis, LaVine have campaign-ending procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacramento Kings\u2019 2 highest-paid basketballers, Domantas Sabonis and Zach LaVine, both underwent campaign-ending procedures today.<\/p>\n<p>Domantas had a procedure to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee. Sabonis sustained the tear in mid-November, missed 27 matches attempting to rehab it, and was relatively productive in his 8 matches back.<\/p>\n<p>But Sacramento\u2019s campaign is going nowhere. The Kings have an NBA-worst 12-44 record and have lost 14 straight matches. They are no contenders for the postseason for quite some time already, and it\u2019s a smart decision from Domantas to have surgery now and be at his best level for the new campaign.<\/p>\n<p>LaVine is in a similar situation. Zach averaged almost 20 points in his 39 matches before the All-Star break, but missed 5 of the previous 10 and is deciding to have a procedure on a tendon injury in his right hand, meaning we will not see him again on the court this campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Domantas Sabonis and Zach Lavine are out for the remainder of the season, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ShamsCharania<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sabonis underwent season-ending surgery to repair his torn meniscus, while LaVine is undergoing season-ending surgery to repair a tendon injury in his hand <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/loPRvTFBPx\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/loPRvTFBPx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/2024235654469591303?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 18, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacramento Kings\u2019 2 highest-paid basketballers, Domantas Sabonis and Zach LaVine, both underwent campaign-ending procedures today. Domantas had a procedure to repair a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":508687,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17360,16941,16891],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[18881,17839,20531],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Sacramento\u2019s highest-paid players are out until the end of the season.","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\/508686"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508689,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/508686\/revisions\/508689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508686"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=508686"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=508686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}