Lakers superstar Luka Dončić suffers season-ending injury

The Los Angeles Lakers' title hopes conscionable took a large hit.

NBA scoring person Luka Dončić volition miss the remainder of the regular play with a Grade 2 strain of his near hamstring, the squad announced Friday.

It's unclear what his presumption is for the postseason.

Dončić was the main crushed the Lakers climbed into the 3rd spot successful the Western Conference standings. But an wounded to his limb during Los Angeles’ blowout nonaccomplishment successful Oklahoma City Thursday has taken that each distant aft an MRI exam revealed the severity of the strain.

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Lakers manager JJ Redick said Dončić was injured successful the archetypal fractional against the Thunder but was cleared to instrumentality to the crippled portion his squad was getting plastered by the defending NBA champion Thunder. 

Dončić lasted lone astir 4 minutes earlier helium spun, stopped and went down connected the tribunal successful pain, starring to his departure.

Los Angeles Lakers defender Luka Dončić controls the shot against the Orlando Magic successful the archetypal 4th astatine Kia Center March 21, 2026. (Nathan Ray Seebeck/Imagn Images)

The Lakers acquired Dončić successful a astonishing and arguable commercialized successful February 2025, erstwhile the Dallas Mavericks sent the Latvian superstar, on with Maxi Kleber and Markieff Morris to LA successful speech for 31-year-old Anthony Davis, Max Christie and a 2029 first-round pick. The determination near galore fans and pundits puzzled, believing the commercialized was lopsided successful favour of the Lakers.

The Pacific Division champion Lakers (50-27) person conscionable 5 games near earlier the postseason, starting Sunday astatine Dallas.

Grade 2 hamstring strains sometimes necessitate respective weeks of recovery, but Dončić besides has anterior acquisition with hamstring issues. He missed 4 games close earlier the All-Star interruption with different near hamstring strain but returned to the lineup aft the break.

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Guard Luka Dončić of the Los Angeles Lakers reacts aft a foul telephone successful the archetypal fractional against the Los Angeles Clippers astatine Crypto.com Arena successful Los Angeles Nov. 25, 2025. (Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News/Getty Images)

Dončić is putting up spectacular numbers successful his archetypal afloat play with the Lakers, who acquired the Slovenian superstar from the Mavericks past season. 

He is averaging 33.5 points, 8.3 assists and 7.7 rebounds per crippled for Los Angeles, and helium was named the NBA’s Western Conference subordinate of the period for March aft racking up 13 consecutive 30-point performances, including 7 40-point games, a 51-point barrage against Chicago and a 60-point masterclass successful Miami.

Dončić scored 600 points successful March, becoming lone the 10th subordinate successful NBA past to deed that people successful a azygous month. While LeBron James and Austin Reaves person besides played good down the stretch, the Lakers beryllium connected Dončić, who either scored oregon assisted connected 58% of their full points successful March.

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Los Angeles Lakers defender Luka Dončić controls the shot against the Atlanta Hawks during the archetypal fractional astatine State Farm Arena successful Atlanta Nov. 8, 2025. (Dale Zanine/Imagn Images)

The Lakers’ regular-season finale is adjacent Sunday, April 12, astatine location against Utah. Their first-round playoff bid is expected to commencement the pursuing weekend.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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