The Finnish star has been on the sidelines for the Utah Jazz’s four previous NBA games due to lower back pain.
The Utah Jazz informs that Lauri Markkanen and also another player in the starting line-up John Collins will return to the playing lineup of the NBA team, when the Jazz face the second best team in the series, Oklahoma, the first team in the Western Conference, on Thursday morning Finnish time.
The Utah Jazz represented by Markkanen, who have achieved the second fewest wins this NBA season, have lost six of their last seven games. The Oklahoma City Thunder, on the other hand, have won five of their last six games.
Markkanen has averaged 20.1 points and grabbed 6.1 rebounds per game this season.
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