The injury to Lakers star forward Anthony Davis is even worse than the original diagnosis. Davis has a mid-foot sprain, according to the team (hat tip to Brad Turner), and will be reevaluated in four weeks.
The original prognosis was a right ankle sprain that would cost Davis a minimum of two weeks. Davis took a scary fall in the second quarter of Wednesday’s game against Utah after landing on Rudy Gobert‘s heel and had to be helped to the locker room.
The injury was revealed during an MRI. It’s another major ailment for Davis, who has already missed 21 games this season.
He was sidelined for more than a month in December and January with a sprained MCL in his left knee. He also missed 36 of the 72 games last season.
It’s another blow to a franchise with championship aspirations that is now in danger of even reaching the postseason with one of the league’s premier big men out for an extended period. Los Angeles has the ninth-best record in the Western Conference. The Lakers ended a three-game losing streak on Wednesday by defeating the Jazz.
Los Angeles will have to lean more heavily on Carmelo Anthony (who currently has a hamstring issue), Dwight Howard, DeAndre Jordan, Stanley Johnson and Trevor Ariza in Davis’ absence.
LOL hahahhaahahhahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!
Lakers
Great organization
Great culture
Great players
Lakers want to run it back next season according to ESPN.
Championship aspirations? Wow everyone but BRON BRON knew before the season started this group of Buick Drivers weren’t going anywhere except to Golden Corral for the 3:30 Dinner Buffet.
Lakers would never wave the White Flag.
The LA Veranos
Street Clothes living up to the moniker.
AD got his ring and now he’s fragile AD (all day). Good luck trying to make the playoffs/play in game. Sac and NO playing better
Portland is also playing better.
This is getting tough to watch
He will be back just in time for the play-in b.s.
The iron man
In other words, the Lakers will be waiving the white flag on the season.
This is a slap in the face to season ticket holders. He should be ashamed.
@LilD
Ashamed of what? they literally showed his ankle rolling and looking as if the ankle ball touched the floor! It’s an injury that happens when you have reallllly tall people, running around reallllly fast and jumping and cutting and landing reallllly reallllly hard, sometimes on someone’s foot as in this case.
Pretty sure he was being realllllly sarcastic
You should be ashamed of what’s going on in your head and should not speak publicly.
How dare he get hurt! He has an obligation to never get injured. He owes it to the season ticket holders. You make less sense than Sillivan.
Wow Davis stans show yourselves…
The fact is AD cares more about his eyebrow and image than his game. If he takes proper care of himself he won’t have all these injuries.
He is playing with Lebron James. Have some pride. Instead he plays 5 games a season and the fanbase gets nothing. Makes me sick…
I personally can’t stand the Lakers. I have no skin in this game. Please explain how “taking care of himself” would have prevented this foot/ankle injury. You are continuing to show why you are one of the least valuable commenters.
@LilD
You can’t “train yourself” not to roll your ankle. That says enough about you.
Plenty of big men play full seasons without injury. What’s their secret?
They take health seriously. They know their strengths and weaknesses and adjust their game accordingly.
AD flops around out there like a gangly fish and doesn’t have the footwork to limit exposure to dangerous situations. Watch the game before.
Not sure why people feel the need to argue something objectively true…smdh
Since you seem to be intimately familiar with his training regimen and have diagnosed his poor footwork, please provide the class with a plan to remedy his deficiencies. I’m sure the Lakers coaches and training staff will anxiously await your astute commentary.
@LilD
btw… the fans got a chip.
Wonder how much Street Clothes would make if he was payed for every game he played
The Lakers should have tried to trade him
last year.
Lakers were irrelevant all season, in terms of title contenders, right now Im rooting for PHX and espacially CP3 to win his first ring. That guy deserves it
Why?
El DON, doesn’t seem fair that Kyrie has one, but Chris doesn’t.
CP3 plays the game the way it should be played
@x-burner
So does Kyrie. Two different roles however. You can say a lot about Kyrie but you can’t question his on-court play. In 2020-2021 he rocked a 50%/40%/90% with 6 assists, 5 rebounds and 1.5 steals on 2.5 to. That’s outstanding.
Heck, the city of Phoenix deserves it.
Yeah of course there is an injury history with AD but this injury could’ve happened to anyone. His ankle folded up like a lawn chair, it’s not like he pulled a muscle. The stupidity in these comments is why 99/100 athletes don’t pay attention to the couch warriors posting on the internet
Did they just say they need to lean on DeAndre Jordan and Trevor Ariza? Ooof. lol
Find someone that will give you value for AD. Only hope the Lakers have is finding a sucker.
Good point, LeBron only going to be on the roster one more season since he’ll want to play with his son. Maybe they can sign and trade him…..but AD going to bring back the most value for the Lakers to start over.
Looks like they overrated THT big time, if they just threw him in the trade for Lowry they would have Lowry now instead of Westbrook.
That 2 week to 4 week project escalated quickly
The NOODLE is hurt again? The over/under on how many games before he disappeared again was 11. Way to go NOODLE, you almost made it!
Honestly, considering the size of these guys’ feet, I’m surprised there are not more Sprained ankles.
Rudy Gobert’s shoes are Size 20.
Like How could you miss not landing on his feet ?
Some people work harder on their footwork and know how to be in safe and smart positions.
Some unfortunately for their careers and their fans quite frankly dont care enough to put in the work. Or they are content with being just good.
AD is from Soft Side of Chicago …..
What happens when Bron is gone …..
Rip lakers. LeBron back to Cleveland?
Another Day