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What Happened to Luka Doncic? Is Luka Doncic Hurt?

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Aditi Deshinge

Luka Doncic is a professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association i.e NBA. He also represents Slovenian national team. Fans are wondering to know what happened to Luka Doncic? In this article we are going to briefly clarify what happened to Luka Doncic? So keep scrolling down and read out this entire article to know more.

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What Happened to Luka Doncic?

Luka Doncic is a professional basketball player in Slovenian and she was born in Ljubljana. Luka is a young player for Union Olimija before entering the youth academy of Real Madrid. When he was just 16 years old, he made his debut in 2015 for the academy’s senior team and become the youngest in the club history.

What Happened to Luka Doncic?

Luka Doncic departed from the Dallas Mavericks Phoenix Suns game with a left ankle injury. In the post , Luka was against Suns’ Cam Johnson at the time of his last control when he tried to use his left leg as the pivot foot.

Luka appeared to have stepped on Cam Johnson’s foot and he passed the ball and then started limping after the play. Shortly after that Doncic accepted the time out.

It is also said that the Dallas Maverick’s superstar will not return for the game. The team announced that it was a ankle sprain. The mavericks also stated that the MRI on the ankle is negative and so it’s a relief for the team that it isn’t a serious injury.

Currently, the second best scorer Christian Wood sidelined with thumb injury.

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Is Luka Doncic hurt?

The 23 years old Luka Doncic missed 17 contests while haggling with injuries to his left ankle and also ignored the first three games of the postseason after in the last game of the regular season as he suffered from sprain.

Before the game against the Warriors, NBA reporter Marc Stein of The Stein Line reported that Doncic will likely miss the next game (against the Utah Jazz on Monday night) in addition to Saturday.

Via Stein: “The likely scenario, league sources say, is that Dallas’ Luka Dončić (right heel contusion) will miss at least one more game beyond tonight’s ABC game at Golden State before joining the team for Wednesday’s road date with the Clippers.”

Luka Doncic came into the season, in excellent shape. He also supervised staying injury free until the Dallas Maverick’s road game against the Phoenix Suns on Thursday. Before this he also missed five games due to rest and healing during back to back sets.

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What Are the Updates on Luka Doncic Injury?

In the last week, life of Luka Doncic just got tougher when Dallas Maverick’s teammate Christian Wood headed down with a hand injury. Luka was already accomplishing most of the heavy lifting for the Mavs for pretty much the entire season and the fact that Wood is presently on the shelf adds more responsibility for Doncic.

Unfortunately Luka and Mavs returning to action just yet Christian Wood wont be. Jason Kidd stated that –

What Happened to Luka Doncic?

“I think it’s just week to week, just to see how the healing goes,” Kidd said, via Callie Caplan of The Dallas Morning News. “It’s been a week now, so we’ll give you another update in a week just to see if there’s been any healing or improvement there.”

But, there is no confirmation that Wood will return back in a week. He is going to get his left thumb fracture re-evaluated after the stated period and so he is going to miss more time.

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