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Lakers’ Luka Doncic set for practice return after injury scare
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The Los Angeles Lakers certainly had their stomachs in a knot on Friday when star guard Luka Doncic suffered a knee injury while playing for his home country of Slovenia in a tune-up for EuroBasket this summer. Doncic was taken out by a teammate while defending the paint and immediately was in a lot of pain.
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Thankfully for Los Angeles, Doncic avoided a serious injury and is just dealing with a right knee contusion. He is now scheduled to return to practice on Monday, though he may not be able to play in Slovenia's next game on Tuesday according to Marc Stein of The Stein line.
"Luka Dončić is scheduled to be back at practice Monday, Slovenia's basketball federation has announced, with his official status still TBD for Tuesday's @ EuroBasket warmup game at home against Great Britain," Stein reported on X, formerly Twitter.
While this is something that will likely linger around for Doncic, it is great news for him and for the Lakers that he is not seriously injured and that this will not impact his availability for the upcoming season.
Doncic is one of many European stars taking part in EuroBasket for their home nations this summer, with Denver Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokic also playing for Serbia. Slovenia is making its final preparations before its first official game of the event on Aug. 28.
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The Lakers just handed Doncic a fresh new contract extension, so they will be glad that he is not injured and should be able to go about his business as usual moving forward. He and Slovenia have some work to do after losing 94-72 in a friendly match against Lithuania on Friday. Now that they know that Doncic will not miss significant time, they can continue to move forward as they try to prepare for EuroBasket.
If Doncic is operating at 100% and is ready to go by the time the tournament starts, Slovenia will still be a very dangerous team that has a chance to beat any team on any day because of what its superstar can do.
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