Nearly a week after Anthony Davis left suffered a right foot injury, the Lakers have issued an official update on Davis’ status, announcing on Friday that he has a stress injury in his foot and has been ruled out indefinitely (Twitter link).
According to the club, the diagnosis was reached after “extensive consultation with Lakers team physicians and outside specialists.” Further updates will be provided when appropriate, the Lakers added in their statement.
Although we waited several days for official word from the Lakers, their announcement doesn’t provide much additional clarity on Davis’ injury or his potential recovery timeline. As Jeff Stotts of In Street Clothes tweets, a “stress injury” could mean a stress reaction or a stress fracture, and it’s difficult to assess the severity of the ailment without knowing which bone is affected.
Shams Charania of The Athletic reported five days ago that Davis was expected to be sidelined for at least a month, but it sounds like the big man and the Lakers aren’t prepared to go that far. According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski (Twitter link), the pain in Davis’ foot has subsided in recent days and the plan is to rest it for another seven-to-10 days before having it reevaluated to see if he can return to the court.
The hope is that Davis will be able to avoid undergoing a procedure on his injured foot, Wojnarowski adds.
With Davis on the shelf, Thomas Bryant has been promoted to the Lakers’ starting five and has played well, averaging 17.5 PPG and 7.8 RPG on .622/.636/.583 shooting in his last four games (28.5 MPG). However, Los Angeles’ defense has struggled without Davis manning the middle, giving up between 117 and 134 points in the three games since his injury. The Lakers’ defensive rating during that time ranks 29th in the NBA.
At least they won a Mickey Mouse championship.
Haters gonna hate
I missed the part where the Lakers were handed an advantage no one else had that season. Would you like to explain it to me? I’m sure your explanation will be fascinating.
This. People giving it an asterisk are morons. Equal playing field, they were the last team standing. End of.
Right because that next year in 2021 was way more of a Covid year than the bubble. Major injuries and Covid. The bubble had high level basketball , 0 Covid.
The advantage was they were able to get 4-4 1/2 months rest for Anthony Davis who doesn’t seem to be able to endure the rigors of a full season without interruption.
Mr Glass
Nickname should be OI rather than AD.
Street clothes
Doesn’t sound good. Before this, I wasn’t buying the LAL as buyers at the TD, now I am even more skeptical.
Lakers priority should be trading AD if somebody gives them something they could use. Part of it is Ham’s fault for playing him too many minutes every night.
@arc. Davis was going to get hurt regardless of who his coach might have been. Your comment is pretty lame
What is lame having AD play for 36 minutes straight with no rest before he got hurt. A tired player is more likely to get hurt. he played 46 minutes in the game before he got hurt. You might not like the truth but his extra minutes is another example of poor management by Lakers.
Lol.
Lmao, even.
Aw I’m so sad.
It doesn’t make a difference if Ant comes back in 2 weeks or a month. He will go right back down. His body cannot hold up. Ant is willing to try and play through pain. He desperately doesn’t want to disappoint Laker fans. His body has other ideas.
Anthony Day-to-Day Davis
Day to Davis
I read it was a stress fracture on left leg. Not good for bigs. AD needs to heal. And get on supplements or something. Gets hurt too much.
“ And get on supplements or something”
Do you ever read what you jot down here?
There are vitamins and legal drugs. That will help strengthen legs. It’s called sports medicine. AD seems like he needs help. Medical help.