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Lauri Markkanen avoids serious injury on left knee

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Tony Jones: Regarding Lauri Markkanen: the Jazz star is out tonight for personal reasons, but his knee has checked out fine, according to league sources. He has no structural damage from tests last night and an MRI confirmed as much this morning so it looks like he escaped serious injury

Source: Twitter @Tjonesonthenba

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Tony Jones @Tjonesonthenba

Regarding Lauri Markkanen: the Jazz star is out tonight for personal reasons

But his knee has checked out fine, according to league sources. He has no structural damage from tests last night and an MRI confirmed as much this morning so it looks like he escaped serious injury - 6:23 PM

Emiliano Carchia @Sportando

Utah Jazz’s Lauri Markkanen suffered a knee injury sportando.basketball/en/utah-jazzs-… - 2:46 AM

Tim MacMahon @espn_macmahon

Lauri Markkanen has a left knee contusion and will not return vs. Spurs, per Jazz.

Markannen had to be helped off after banging knees with Victor Wembanyama. - 11:26 PM

Ryan Blackburn @NBABlackburn

Lauri Markkanen just had to be carried off the floor late in the 4th quarter of Jazz-Spurs.

Nuggets are in Utah tomorrow night. Lauri missed the first matchup in Denver too. - 11:21 PM

Tony Jones @Tjonesonthenba

Jazz sours about to top off tonight. The trend we are seeing from Utah are the veterans playing very well of late. We are talking Lauri Markkanen, John Collins and Collin Sexton - 9:04 PM

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David Locke: Lauri Markkanen injured his knee last night and is out tonight for personal reasons pic.x.com/jDTq1tNWua -via Twitter @DLocke09 / November 27, 2024

Andy Larsen: Jazz beat the Knicks 121-106. Jazz shot 19-34 from three for the win... NYK only slightly made it competitive. Markkanen: 34 points, 11-15 FG. Sexton: 25 points, 9-14 FG. Collins: 20 points, 13 rebs. Kessler: 11 points, 10 rebs, 3 blocks, a +34. -via Twitter @andyblarsen / November 23, 2024

Andy Larsen: Lauri Markkanen has been upgraded to available for tonight’s game against Sacramento. (Eye contusion) -via Twitter @andyblarsen / November 16, 2024

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