The Lakers will be without guard Isaiah Thomas for the remainder of the season, Shams Charania of Yahoo Sports tweets. The 29-year-old midseason addition underwent arthroscopic surgery on his hip today and will be shut down for four months, Mike Bresnahan of Spectrum SportsNet adds.
As we wrote yesterday, the procedure was intended to clean up the joint that has plagued him since last season. It will now bring to an end his 17-game stint with Los Angeles after coming over from the Cavaliers in a mid-season purge.
Thomas averaged a commendable 15.6 points and 5.0 assists per game in 17 games for the Lakers but will hit unrestricted free agency eager to prove that he’s more than an offensive sparkplug best suited for a reserve role. In 2016/17, of course, Thomas finished fifth in MVP voting with averages of 28.9 points and 5.9 assists per game.
Lonzo has a knee contusion. Will be out at least 1 game. Might as well sit. They are out of playoffs with 7 games to go.
Tough season for IT, lost a lot of money based on this campaign. Hope he can be reasonable, get healthy, sign a Lou Will or KCP one year deal in 18-19 and re-establish himself as a star in the L.
Not even a big fan of his, just know quality players when I see them.
Lost money by not following wise advice and getting this over with last summer fall half-winter.
IT is so overrated.
I wonder why he didn’t get this done last June!??! May have gotten back in time for December of four months is the time off as suggested above. There goes that brinks truck. If he recovers in time he might end up being a brinks truck driver in four months. Jk. Best wishes.
Dude still made over 6 million this year. I don’t think he will need to do odd jobs for the time being.
I think before all is said and done that 2016-17 will just be a career year for IT. He had other good seasons, but not superstar seasons. I believe he will either be an average starter on a bad team or a 6th man on a good team next year.