Luka Doncic To Seek Treatment In Europe

Luka Doncic will go to Europe to get medical treatment on his hamstring strain in order to speed up his recovery process, Shams Charania reports for ESPN (Twitter link). This decision came as a result of conversations with his medical team as well as the Lakers’ medical staff.

Doncic was diagnosed with the Grade 2 hamstring strain on Friday and wasn’t given a timeline for recovery, though certain medical experts speculated that a three-to-six week time frame was typical for such injuries.

The Lakers are likely to fall no further than the fifth seed in the West, but with Austin Reaves recently ruled out for four to six weeks with an oblique injury, the Lakers are suddenly quite thin in the backcourt heading into the first round of the playoffs.