Lakers star Luka Doncic breaks silence; says he's unlikely to play in series - BERITAJA

With the Lakers down 1-0 successful the Western Conference semifinals, Luka Doncic is improbable to return successful the playoffs because of an injured hamstring that had an inital eight-week timeline for his return.

Doncic, speaking to reporters for the first clip since he hobbled disconnected the tribunal astatine Oklahoma City’s Paycom Center connected April 2, said Wednesday he has improved capable to statesman moving but he has not progressed to on-court interaction drills. After suffering a near hamstring wounded earlier this season, Doncic said the latest Grade 2 strain to the aforesaid area is dissimilar immoderate he’s knowledgeable because of its severity.

After his injury, Doncic said doctors told him that he would beryllium retired for about 2 months. He went to Spain and received platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections pinch hopes to thief his betterment and stayed for about 2 weeks because he needed to hold 4 days betwixt each injection. He received 4 successful total.

Without their starring scorer, the Lakers fought done a six-game, first-round bid against the Houston Rockets, playing 3 of those games without Austin Reaves, who was besides injured successful the aforesaid crippled arsenic Doncic. The fourth-seeded Lakers lost 108-90 to the defending champion Thunder successful Game 1 connected Tuesday.

“It’s very frustrating,” Doncic said of the injury. “I don’t deliberation group understand really frustrating it is. All I want to do is play basketball, particularly astatine this time. It’s the champion clip to play basketball. It’s very frustrating seeing what my squad is doing, I’m very proud of them. It’s been very reliable conscionable to spot and watch them play.”