The Lakers will finish the season without Josh Hart, who had a procedure on his right knee patellar tendon today, tweets Shams Charania of The Athletic. Doctors say Hart should be able to resume full basketball activities in 12 weeks.
This is the second operation of the month for Hart, who underwent surgery to fix a small fracture in his left hand in early March.
Hart played 67 games in his second NBA season after appearing in 63 as a rookie. He started 22 times and posted a 7.8/3.7/1.4 line for the year. He hasn’t played since logging 17 minutes against the Bucks on March 19.
The Lakers picked up Hart’s third-year option last fall, so he will return to the team next season at a salary of $1,934,160. L.A. has a team option on Hart worth nearly $3.5MM for 2020/21.
Hart, Ball, Ingram all done for the year. And people act like this was a fully healthy squad that missed the playoffs.
Not to mention when they were healthy they were in the middle of the playoff hunt then LeBron went down for 6 weeks and came back early and isn’t playing st full health right now but still is putting up his normal numbers. Not worried about this team at all next year. I’d still look to sign a good player and maybe make a trade not like the one people expect but for a decent player and they’ll be solid.
I agree. Only real question is if all these guys are going to be injury prone in the future. They looked good when healthy, but if they can’t stay healthy, it doesn’t matter
And for those of you who forgot, this is all the fault of Luke Walton so he needs to be fired! What a bunch of garbage!
Dude is no need to call Walton garbage, I mean he is bad but no need to get personal, right?
Walton isn’t garbage, he is just a mediocre head coach still trying to figure it out.
Nice … we all know where the garbage is in that franchise and it unfortunately starts with the front office.