Sacramento Kings All-Star 7-footer Domantas Sabonis has suffered a right-hand harm and can endure additional testing and analysis on remedy choices that can assist decide how a lot time — if any — Sabonis will miss, sources informed ESPN on Saturday.
X-rays confirmed the harm and the necessity for additional examination after Friday’s loss to the Washington Wizards. A timeline on a return may depend upon Sabonis’ ache tolerance or the necessity to handle a extra severe harm, sources informed ESPN.
Sabonis injured the hand within the fourth quarter of the 125-111 loss to the Wizards.
He has been a driving drive within the Kings’ renaissance this season, averaging 17.9 factors, a league-leading 12.4 rebounds and 6.7 assists for the present No. 6 seed within the Western Convention. Sacramento hasn’t made the playoffs because the 2005-2006 season, the NBA’s longest postseason drought. The Kings are 17-14, three video games behind first-place Denver within the West and just one recreation behind fourth-place Phoenix.
Thus far, Sabonis has had an impressive season for the Kings. He’s one in every of three gamers, together with Nikola Jokic and Giannis Antetokounmpo, to common 10 rebounds and 5 assists this season, in accordance with ESPN Stats & Data.
Sabonis leads the league in double-doubles with 23, has three video games of 20 factors, 20 rebounds and 5 assists this season — solely Jokic and Luka Doncic have recorded extra, in accordance with ESPN Stats & Data.
Sabonis, an All-Star in 2020 and 2021 with Indiana, was traded by the Pacers to the Kings final February in a deal that included guards Tyrese Haliburton and Buddy Hield.