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Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Dončić is out for the remainder of the season
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Dončić suffered a grade 2 left hamstring strain during the Lakers’ game against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday, April 2
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The injury comes amid an ongoing custody battle for his children — daughters Gabriela, 2, and Olivia, 3 months — whom he shares with ex-fiancée Anamaria Goltes
Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Dončić is out for the remainder of the season.
On Friday, April 3, the team confirmed that Dončić, 27, suffered a grade 2 left hamstring strain during the third quarter of the Lakers’ game against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday, according to ESPN and the NBA.
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This type of injury usually requires at least a month of recovery, but the Lakers have not yet commented on the exact timeline Dončić will need, the outlets reported. NBA Playoffs are set to begin on April 18, with Dončić out for this period.
Luka Dončić
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Bill Duffy of WME Basketball told ESPN that he plans to apply for an “Extraordinary Circumstances Challenge” on behalf of his client, Dončić, to be eligible for end-of-season awards.
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Dončić’s injury comes just days after he accused his ex-fiancée, Anamaria Goltes, of filing for child support for their two kids in the wrong place to receive more money.
In documents previously obtained by PEOPLE, the NBA star filed a motion to dismiss Goltes’ petition for child support, which she filed in Los Angeles.
Dončić claimed that the petition was invalid since he, Goltes and their two kids — daughters Gabriela, 2, and Olivia, 3 months — are not California residents, but rather spend most of their time abroad in Slovenia.
Dončić previously filed a family law motion in Slovenia in February. He claims that Goltes knew about the case in Slovenia when she filed in California to “avail herself of the generous amounts of child support for which California is well-known.”
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“Luka has always provided for anything his daughters could need or want and will continue to do so,” a spokesperson for Dončić said in a statement to PEOPLE on March 24. “He will always fight to be with his daughters and give them the best life possible.
“Luka is seeking dismissal of this case simply because Slovenia, not California, is the appropriate forum for adjudication of this dispute,” the statement concluded.
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