The right foot injury, suffered Friday night, costs the team its leading scorer, rebounder and shot blocker as he was playing arguably his best since joining the Lakers.
It has become an unsettlingly familiar feeling for the Lakers: After a freakish injury, Anthony Davis appears to be on track to miss significant time.Davis, the team’s leading scorer , rebounder and shot-blocker , could miss as much as a month with, a development first reported by The Athletic and confirmed to Southern California News Group by a person close to the team.
Officially, the Lakers are continuing evaluation of Davis, whose right foot appeared to make awkward contact with the leg of Denver’s Nikola Jokic in the first quarter of Friday’s game. He’s been ruled out of Sunday afternoon’s game against the Washington Wizards, but few other details have been provided.
Before getting hurt, Davis was well on his way to reestablishing himself as one of the league’s best big men: He averaged 30.3 points, 12.9 rebounds and 2.4 blocks while shooting over 64% from the field in the Lakers’ last 15 games. The team has outscored opponents by 48 points in his minutes this season.
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