After sitting out of the Lakers‘ third and final scrimmage on Monday, star forward/center Anthony Davis also missed the team’s practice on Tuesday, tweets Tania Ganguli of The Los Angeles Times.
Head coach Frank Vogel told reporters on a Zoom call that Davis is feeling discomfort in his right eye and will be re-evaluated on Wednesday (Twitter link via ESPN’s Dave McMenamin). His status for Thursday’s showdown with the Clippers remains up in the air, according to the Lakers’ coach.
“There is some concern that he potentially will not play Thursday, but we’re hopeful that he does,” Vogel said of Davis.
The Lakers open the summer schedule with a 5.5-game lead on the Clippers for the Western Conference, so Thursday’s game isn’t insignificant. If the Lakers win it, they’ll essentially lock up the No. 1 spot in the West. Of course, even if the Lakers drop that game, they’ll still have a fairly comfortable 4.5-game cushion with seven games left to play, so the team won’t rush AD back if he’s not 100%.
If Davis is unable to go, Kyle Kuzma looks like the most logical candidate to take his place in the starting five.
After Thursday, the Lakers have games on tap with the Raptors on Saturday, Utah on Monday, and Oklahoma City on Wednesday.
Rockets are going to beat Lakers
Rondo and Bradley are key to success
Rockets don’t even know if they will be in the Lakers bracket to the wcf! My prediction is no chance rockets vs clippers is the wcf
The odds-makers say otherwise. According to them the Lakers (+180) have the best chance of winning it all, Bucks (+275) are 2nd, Clippers (+325) are 3rd, and the Rockets (+1200) are fourth. The next closest teams in the West are Denver (+1800), Dallas (+3500), and New Orleans (+5000). After that are Utah and OKC tied at +6000 but no one really expects much from them, except their fans of course.
Obviously the most expected WCF is the Lakers and Clippers, but if that doesn’t happen then either a matchup of Lakers/Rockets or Clippers/Rockets is considered by most to be the next most likely WCF.
I don’t doubt the rockets at all where I’m debating is rockets are gonna be the four or five seed and definitely play the Lakers ! There’s so many scenarios In play including clippers vs rockets as either 3 vs 6 or 2 vs 7 ! They don’t know their bracket yet
Either Kuzma or Waiters could catch fire in these cicumstances.
Can definitely see waiters catching fire with his cali bud