{"id":3019,"date":"2026-01-17T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/is-luka-doncic-playing-tonight-lakers-trail-blazers-injury-status\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T21:57:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:57:50","slug":"is-luka-doncic-playing-tonight-lakers-trail-blazers-injury-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/is-luka-doncic-playing-tonight-lakers-trail-blazers-injury-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Luka Doncic playing tonight? Lakers-Trail Blazers injury status"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Luka Don\u010di\u0107 will not be available for the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday, Jan. 17.<\/p>\n

The Lakers star suffered groin soreness and will miss the road game against the Portland Trail Blazers, the team announced Friday night.<\/p>\n

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Don\u010di\u0107 injured his groin while warming up before the game against the Sacramento Kings on Monday. He managed to play three games since his injury, the team went 1-2 during that time.<\/p>\n

He is one of three players ruled out by Los Angeles, along with Austin Reaves (left calf strain) and Adou Thiero (right MCL sprain).<\/p>\n

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October 26: Dallas Mavericks’ Cooper Flagg dunks the ball on Sandro Mamukelashvili of the Toronto Raptors at the American Airlines Center.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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October 26: Dallas Mavericks’ Cooper Flagg dunks the ball on Sandro Mamukelashvili of the Toronto Raptors at the American Airlines Center.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

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October 26: Michael Porter Jr. of the Brooklyn Nets goes wild in front of Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs at the Frost Bank Center.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

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October 25: Denver Nuggets’ Christian Braun fumbles against Phoenix Suns’ Grayson Allen at the Ball Arena.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

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October 24: Jaren Jackson Jr.’s Memphis Grizzlies. against the Miami Heat at FedExForum.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

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October 24: Miami Heat’s Bam Adebayo makes a splash over Memphis Grizzlies’ Jaren Jackson Jr. at FedExForum.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

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October 22: New York Knicks’ OG Anunoby goes up for a reverse dunk against the Cleveland Cavaliers at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

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Luka Don\u010di\u0107 statistics<\/h2>\n

Don\u010di\u0107 averaged 33.6 points, 8.7 assists and 7.7 rebounds per game in 32 games played this season. He ranks first in points and fourth in assists this season.<\/p>\n

Who is Luka Don\u010di\u0107’s backup?<\/h2>\n

Kobe Bufkin is listed as the primary backup behind Don\u010di\u0107 at the point guard position, according to ESPN. Bufkin averaged 1.5 points and two rebounds per game. Gabe Vincent will also be considered. He averaged 5.1 points and 1.4 assists per game in just 19 games this season, averaging 20.1 minutes per game.<\/p>\n

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When do the Lakers play next?<\/h2>\n

The Los Angeles Lakers will play against the Portland Trail Blazers on Saturday, Jan. 17 at 10 pm ET (7 pm PT). The game will be played at the Moda Center in Portland.<\/p>\n

This article first appeared in USA TODAY: Luka Doncic injury update: Will the Lakers star play against the Blazers tonight?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Luka Don\u010di\u0107 will not be available for the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday, Jan. 17. The Lakers star suffered groin soreness and will miss the road game against the Portland Trail Blazers, the team announced Friday night. Advertisement Don\u010di\u0107 injured his groin while warming up before the game against the Sacramento Kings on Monday. He …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3021,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions\/3021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insightresearcher.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}