Who’s Sitting Out in the NBA Tonight?

Keep up to date with which NBA players are sitting out each game.

Los Angeles Lakers

Tonight’s game against the Los Angeles Lakers will be an away game for the Houston Rockets. The Lakers will be without Rajon Rondo, who is suspended, and Brandon Ingram and Lonzo Ball, who are both injured. This will be a tough game for the Lakers, but they will have to rely on their bench players to step up.

Rajon Rondo

Rajon Rondo is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats, winning a National Championship in his only season of college basketball. He was drafted 21st overall by the Phoenix Suns in the 2006 NBA draft and traded to the Boston Celtics, with whom he played until 2014. He then briefly played for Dallas Mavericks, Sacramento Kings and Chicago Bulls before signing with New Orleans Pelicans in 2017. In 2018, he was traded back to the Lakers.

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope will not play in Saturday’s game against the Kings. Caldwell-Pope has been battling an Achilles injury and it will cause him to miss his second straight game.

Alex Caruso

The Los Angeles Lakers have announced that Alex Caruso will not play in tonight’s game against the Minnesota Timberwolves due to a right hand injury. Caruso is averaging 6.9 points, 2.2 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game this season.

Golden State Warriors

The Warriors will be sitting out their superstar shooting guard, Klay Thompson, tonight against the Los Angeles Clippers. Thompson has been bothered by an ankle injury for most of the season, and the team has decided to give him a night off to rest.

Klay Thompson

Klay Alexander Thompson (born February 8, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The son of former NBA player Mychal Thompson, he played college basketball for three seasons with the Washington State Cougars, where he was a two-time first-team all-conference selection in the Pac-10. He was selected in the first round of the 2011 NBA draft by Golden State with the 11th overall pick, and helped the team win an NBA championship in his rookie season.

Over his eight-year career with the Warriors, Thompson has been selected to five All-Star teams and four All-NBA teams. He has won three NBA championships with Golden State, earning NBA Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP) honors in 2015 as well as two Olympic gold medals representing Team USA in 2014 and 2016.

Kevon Looney

Kevon Looney will not play against the Houston Rockets on Saturday due to a right hamstring strain, the Warriors announced.

Looney, 23, is averaging 6.3 points and 5.2 rebounds in 65 games this season. He has started 44 games, including each of the past 28 contests.

Ky Bowman

Ky Bowman is sitting out for the Golden State Warriors tonight.

Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets will be sitting out Tonight’s game against the Minnesota Timberwolves. This will be the third game in a row that the Rockets will be sitting out. The team is still trying to recover from the injuries suffered last week.

Russell Westbrook

Russell Westbrook will not play tonight against the Brooklyn Nets. The All-Star guard is averaging 27.5 points, 7.9 rebounds and 7.0 assists in 34.6 minutes per game this season.

Eric Gordon

Eric Gordon is a shooting guard for the Houston Rockets. He is not playing tonight against the San Antonio Spurs.

Austin Rivers

Austin Rivers will not play for the Houston Rockets tonight against the Indiana Pacers. Rivers is dealing with a sore left knee and will miss his seventh straight game. The Rockets are also without Eric Gordon, who is out with a groin injury.

Indiana Pacers

The Indiana Pacers have a few players sitting out of tonight’s game. George Hill is out with an ankle injury. David West is sitting out due to personal reasons. And Jeff Teague is resting tonight. So, who’s going to step up for the Pacers tonight?

Malcolm Brogdon

Malcolm Brogdon will not play in Indiana’s game against the Orlando Magic on Tuesday due to a sore left hamstring, the team announced.

Brogdon, who is averaging career highs of 19.2 points and 7.8 assists per game, has been one of the Pacers’ most important players this season. He has missed four games due to injury so far this season.

Without Brogdon, the Pacers will likely turn to veteran point guard Darren Collison to lead the team’s offense. Collison is averaging 11.4 points and 5.2 assists per game this season.

Myles Turner

Myles Turner is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was drafted by the Pacers with the 11th overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft. Turner played one season of college basketball for the Texas Longhorns before declaring for the draft. He is widely considered one of the best young big men in the NBA, and has been compared to Roy Hibbert and LaMarcus Aldridge.

T.J. Warren

Pacers All-Star small forward T.J. Warren will miss the rest of the season with a stress fracture in his left foot, coach Nate McMillan said before Indiana’s game against the Brooklyn Nets on Saturday night.

The Nets will be without leading scorer Kevin Durant for the sixth straight game because of a left hamstring strain.