MAY 3: Schröder is expected to miss at least 10-to-14 days due to the protocols, sources tell Shams Charania and Bill Oram of The Athletic (Twitter link). That’s typically the timeline associated with a positive COVID-19 test, though that hasn’t been confirmed in Schröder’s case.
The regular season ends on May 16, so it’s very possible we won’t see Schröder again until the postseason.
MAY 2: Lakers guard Dennis Schröder has entered the NBA’s health and safety protocols and will miss the team’s game against the Raptors on Sunday, according to Marc J. Spears of The Undefeated (Twitter link). It’s unclear how long he’ll be sidelined.
Los Angeles just welcomed back LeBron James (ankle) after 20 games, rolling with a starting lineup of Schröder, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, James, Anthony Davis and Andre Drummond on Friday for the first time this season.
Building chemistry is imperative for championship contenders, and the loss of Schröder will hurt the Lakers’ ability to do so just weeks before the playoffs. In 59 starts this season, Schröder has averaged 15.5 points, 5.8 assists and 32.2 minutes per game, shooting 44% from the field and 34% from deep.
The Lakers own the sixth-best record in the West at 36-27 and have lost seven of their last 10 contests. They lead the No. 7 seed Blazers by just one game.
Dennis is a good player but he loses so much value with LeBron back…..if egos his thing, he should look elsewhere in free agency …Hes just never gonna get the keys out here
He’s not a starting pg.. terrible basketball iq.. this is his 2nd Time for this
Completely agree, would you consider him league average or just an overall negative?
If your putting him up against quintessential Pg’s he’s not going to fare well in the IQ department –
Hes more a SG in a PG body on offence and a nice defensive PG on defense
He’s an above avg backcourt option by all means tho,Id even say really good, and probably worth close to 20 per on the right team/circumstances .(Although Id like to get that number closer to 16~18)
I just dont know if your getting the right value on this Laker team as LeBron devalues him a bit as I said in my first post. They dont have many options next offseason than to meet his price . I think they will sign with later intentions of trading a year or 2 down the line for a better fit using his salary/talent to match
Players just keep missing time. Not a good look. If you ask me. This is going to catch up with teams.
Especially at this point as teams ramp up for the playoffs, getting a 14 day quarantine can screw up a team’s chemistry.
This is what happens when LeBron is away. Players start to relax and catch the bug. If Bron was still there ooo boy.
And yes I know LBz is back, but circumstituous timing says Schroeder was partying and caught the bug 10 days ago.
Science vs. Nurture…
The final 8 games for LA are going to be crucial for them. Dallas and Portland are almost tied with them right now, and which ever team finishes behind the other two falls to the 7th seed and enters the play-in tournament.
If Dallas is in a play-in game, the players are gonna tank… they don’t want Carlisle coaching them next season.
Yes, you definitely know what the Mavericks players will do and what they are thinking.
Definitely don’t know more than you, Rowe.
Well…. I take that back.
I appreciate you monitoring all comments still, as well. How much does that pay? No overhead in mom’s basement has to be a plus, too!
This is a huge problem since 8 of the Lakers 9 remaining games are back-to-backs.
Both LeBron and Davis are playing tonight at home against Toronto and they’re down by 15 points at the start of the 4th quarter. I can’t imagine both of them will be playing tomorrow against Denver, unless they’re on a severe minutes restriction.
Later this week they have back-to-back road games against the Clippers and Blazers.
They hardly resemble the team that started the season 21-6 two and 1/2 months ago.
Yet they are far more interesting to talk about than the embarrassment of a team you follow…must suck to suck
lmao lakers fans crying
Nah bro, the Lakers have been very good to me and I stand by them through the good times and the bad. What I don’t do is sit here and get off on other team’s misery like some of y’all out there that clearly have no life and probably didn’t play sports very long growing up
You just ripped on the Rockets calling them an embarrassment of a team, even though they are having their first losing season in 15 years and their worst in 37 years. How does that make them an embarrassment, despite being one of the best teams in the NBA exactly? And then you go on to say how you don’t get off on other team’s misery like the rest of us? Ever heard of the word hypocrite? Might want to look that one up.
I know how it has become trendy among the kids today to hate the Rockets and Houston sports in general. Don’t worry we can handle it, unlike Californians we have thick skin.
I don’t hate the Rockets bud, I just hate the hot garbage that comes off your keyboard. Hard to believe the thick skin story when you literally bash the Lakers on every thread they’re mentioned in…thats not thick that’s called soft…it demonstrates that your skin is so thin that you’ve allowed a basketball team to penetrate your dermis and live inside your body all day everyday rent free lol
The Asterisks are another story though, that is a Houston franchise that I hate and don’t have any issue letting it be known
it isnt misery..its karma for lebron being a assclown all year and its fun to watch. lebrons excuses is the cherry on top
Double-dipping on the quarantine. Yowzah….
Other than D Rose & Conley, the lakers don’t have many options at point guard when free agency begins…
That’s pretty damn irresponsible of him to contract Covid.
He cares more about Los Angeles nightlife, expensive luxury dinners, limited edition seat covers, things like that than he does the game of basketball. Very disturbing for Laker fans…
Dudes still getting put in the protocol, and vaccines have been available for 2 months. SMH.
I don’t believe anything the Lakers say about the health of their players. They have bent the rules on rest/tanking far past the breaking point this season.
Of course, the league won’t even investigate. But they’ll fine the Spurs for winning a basketball game.
Obviously the guy running the Lakers, aka LABron, doesn’t have the pull with the league that he used to in his prime. Just last year he had Danuel House banished from the bubble to help ensure his legacy by securing his fourth and final ring in his futile quest to surpass the true GOAT, one Michael Jordan.