Devastating Lakers News: Luka Doncic Out For Rest of Season

The Los Angeles Lakers have been dealt a crippling injury blow heading down the stretch, as Luka Doncic is out for at least the rest of the regular season, and for some time into the playoffs, with a Grade 2 left hamstring strain.

Just in on @SportsCenter – Lakers’ Luka Doncic will be sidelined indefinitely heading into the playoffs with a Grade 2 left hamstring strain: pic.twitter.com/3yXfJzHYTO
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) April 3, 2026

Shams Charania reports that a Grade 2 strain of this sort usually takes four to six weeks of recovery. And with the playoffs starting in about two weeks time, that leaves the Lakers needing a bit of a run to give Luka any chance at all of making it back this season. If they don't make it through at the very least to the second round, Doncic's season is over.

He injured his leg during the Lakers' embarrassing 43-point loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday. An MRI exam revealed the Grade 2 hamstring strain.

At 33.5 points per game, 8.3 assists and 7.7 rebounds, Luka is having the best season of his career, but it is cut short just five games before the playoffs.

The Lakers held only a one-game lead over the Denver Nuggets for the 3-seed going into Friday's play, and a two-game lead on the Houston Rockets. Both of those teams are sizzling hot on long winning streaks.

Home court advantage in the first round is quickly slipping away for LA.

Doncic was just named the NBA’s Western Conference player of the month for March, with seven 40-point games, a 50-point night and even a 60-point display.

The Lakers are 7-6 without Doncic this season, 43-21 with him.