Luka Dončić: Grade II Hamstring Strain, Likely to Miss 1st Round of Playoffs
Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers
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🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Brian Kamenetsky co-host of Locked-on Lakers. |
| 0:05.2 | Andy is away lucky for him. |
| 0:09.3 | So the news on Luca Donchage is in and it is not great. |
| 0:15.4 | It could be worse, I guess, but from a practical standpoint, the Lakers are in bad shape here. |
| 0:22.5 | A grade two hamstring strain is the official diagnosis. |
| 0:27.6 | The Lakers are saying only at this point that he will not play in the rest of the regular season. |
| 0:32.9 | No surprise there. |
| 0:34.3 | But the average length of recovery for an injury like this is three to six weeks. |
| 0:42.2 | Jeff Stotz at in the street close, one of the great injury experts in the NBA, says that the |
| 0:48.9 | average time lost to this injury is 35 days. If you're looking for context, |
| 0:54.7 | Peyton Watson has been dealing with this injury, |
| 0:57.6 | this grade two hamstring for most of the second half of the season. |
| 1:03.4 | And, |
| 1:04.4 | you know, |
| 1:05.3 | he was, |
| 1:06.3 | you know, |
| 1:06.5 | he took him about 45 days to come back and just left. |
| 1:10.5 | Again, the lineup is now once again, week to week with the, took him about 45 days to come back and just left again. |
| 1:11.1 | The lineup is now once again week to week with the same hamstring strain. |
| 1:16.1 | So it can be a slow injury to heal. |
| 1:20.1 | Luca had a hamstring injury earlier in the season that cost him about a week, |
| 1:25.3 | 10 days or so that got them back in the All-Star |
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