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Luka Doncic questionable for Lakers game against Pistons
Luka Doncic is questionable for the Lakers’ game against Detroit on Sunday because of lower-back tightness.
The same issue kept him out of one game against the LA Clippers, his only absence this season.
He scored 53 points against Portland on Friday, extending a run of at least 40 points in four straight games.
That run makes him one of only four Lakers to reach the mark in four consecutive games, alongside Elgin Baylor, Kobe Bryant and George Mikan.
Doncic has scored 361 points in nine appearances, the most by any player through the first nine games of a season since Wilt Chamberlain in 1962–63.
The Lakers are 8–2 heading into the Detroit game, but Doncic’s availability remains uncertain.
Luka Doncic is questionable for the Los Angeles Lakers’ game against the Detroit Pistons because of lower back tightness.
The same issue kept him out of the Lakers’ game against the LA Clippers, his only absence this season.
Doncic scored 53 points against Portland on Friday.
He has scored at least 40 points in four consecutive games.
The Lakers enter the Detroit game with an 8–2 record.
- Who
- Luka Doncic, a Los Angeles Lakers player.
- What
- He is questionable to play against the Detroit Pistons because of lower back tightness.
- When
- Sunday; the sources do not state the game’s calendar date.
- Where
- Not stated
- Why
- He has lower back tightness.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Lower back tightness kept Doncic out of the Lakers’ game against the LA Clippers.
Doncic scored 53 points against Portland.
Doncic was listed as questionable for the Lakers’ game against Detroit.
- Injury
- Lower back tightness
- Recent scoring
- 53 points against Portland on Friday
- Scoring streak
- At least 40 points in four consecutive games
- Lakers record
- 8–2 before the Detroit game