Luka Doncic had not played basketball since Christmas day when the stunning trade that sent him from the Dallas Mavericks to the Los Angeles Lakers was announced around midnight days before the 2025 NBA trade deadline.

On Wednesday night, the Los Angeles Lakers will play the Utah Jazz in Salt Lake City. For the game, they could be without their best player, as Luka Doncic is

The second game of Luka Doncic’s Los Angeles Lakers tenure is in the books. For the second straight matchup, the Slovenian guard was in the starting lineup to face the Utah Jazz. While his Lakers debut provided plenty of positive moments for Los Angeles fans, Wednesday night’s game seemed like the opposite.