Spears Im hearing Lukas targeting next week the Lakers play at home against Utah next Monday and on the road in Utah next Wednesday a potential return from his calf injury

Charania The expectation is if the Lakers are able to beat Houston and advance Luka Doni will be out for the next series against the Oklahoma City Thunder

Brian Windhorst on Luka He is not close There is a whole ramp up thats required when you are coming back from a hamstring He has not started that contact ramp up yet

OConnor Mikel Brown Jr reveals he has been fully cleared from the back injury that kept him out at Louisville He will begin workouts with teams this week starting with the Utah Jazz

Windhorst Im a big actions-over-words guy When Luka got hurt they sent Luka went to Spain for treatment I've heard of going to Germany I've never heard of going to Spain Luka also has a newborn in Slovenia he lives in Madrid in the offseason

Siegel He went over to Europe to get treatment on his hamstring he came back over and it didnt really change his timeline at all He has not resumed normal practicing The earliest he could possibly return to the court is if they returned home for Game 3 and 4

Chet Holmgren with the putback Austin Reaves with the layup to give him 31 points and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander splits through the entire Lakers defense scoring and easy layupMarcus Smart misses a 3 and the Lakers empty their benchThe Thunder take game 2 and go up 2-0