Doctor explains why Sabonis hamstring injury is ‘hard to predict’

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Doctor explains why Sabonis hamstring injury is ‘hard to predict’ originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

With Kings center Domantas Sabonis on the mend from a Grade 1 left hamstring strain, Sacramento fans hope to see their star big man back on the court soon.

The Kings announced Sunday night that Sabonis will be re-evaluated in one week, but it could be longer before he returns from the injury, as Stanford Medicine’s Dr. Geoffrey Abrams explained in an interview with NBC Sports California’s Tristi Rodriguez.

“Hamstring strains are pretty common, particularly in professional athletes,” Abrams told Rodriguez. “The way that [the Sabonis injury] happened, it’s certainly a pull of the muscle, where the muscle kind of blends into the tendon or the tendon blends into the muscle. Grade 1 is really the lowest end of the grading scale, so it goes all the way up to a 3 … Typically for grade 1s like this, we classify it as a minor — maybe a moderate — but more minor strain of the hamstring, and typical time loss for these is around a couple few weeks on average.”

Sabonis sustained the hamstring injury just over a minute into the Kings’ game against the Houston Rockets on Saturday at Toyota Center and was ruled out for the remainder of the contest. He was running down the court and attempting to get into position in the key when he grabbed the back of his left leg, then was helped to the Kings’ locker room by team trainers.

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Hamstring injuries like the one Sabonis sustained can be tricky, Abrams continued, and it’s difficult to gauge when Sabonis could be back in action.

“These things, it’s really hard to predict on a day-to-day basis exactly when he’s going to come back,” Abrams said. “So what happens, typically, [is] he’ll get some rest and rehabilitation in the initial phase, and then they’ll start kind of going through a progression in terms of increasing speed, increasing intensity on that hamstring and seeing how it holds up. And in the next week or so, I think they’ll have a pretty good idea of when he’s going to be…

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Publish date : 2025-03-03 16:22:00

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