La lakers anthony davis injury

When Which is why reports — both in the aftermath of Game 5 and now the following day — that Davis has avoided a concussion and is likely to play in Game 6 on Friday. Chris Haynes reported this Thursday. Los Angeles Lakers star Anthony Davis (head injury) is expected to be available for Game 6 on Friday barring a setback, league sources tell — Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) That echoes positive reports out of Game 5, including from Lakers coach “Obviously, everyone saw he took a shot to the head, but we just checked in on him, he seems to be doing really good already,” Ham said. “That’s just where he’s at. That’s the status of it right now.” Lakers coach Darvin Ham shared few specifics about his condition, but the mood from both him and sources close to Davis was optimistic in the immediate aftermath of it all. In the fourth quarter of Game 5, the Warriors’ Anthony Davis took an elbow to the face by Kevon Looney and headed to the Lakers bench 😮 — ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) Davis went to the bench and later to the locker room for observation, he did not return to the game ( Game 6 isn’t must win for the Lakers, who are still up 3-2 on the Warriors, but it’s as close as it gets. The Lakers are 6-0 at Crypto.com Arena this postseason and they don’t want to have to win a Game 7 on the road against But that will require a healthy Davis. It appears the Lakers will have that.

Very few Yet the Lakers have no alternatives. They've rarely even used a backup center this postseason. And yet there's a chance that's exactly the situation the Lakers may find themselves in come Friday night when they host the There's no good strategy for winning without your best player. That is especially true when your entire system rests on the unique gifts of that player. But inferior NBA teams win games somewhat frequently. Every team in the NBA this season won at least 17 games. The Warriors lost both of their games against the Such a path exists, but it's fairly narrow and carries enormous risk. If the Lakers do indeed have to play Game 6 without Davis, here are the basic strategies they should consider as they would be attempting to pull off what would be an enormous upset. Turn the game into a shooting contest This strategy is going to sound counterintuitive. The Lakers have struggled to shoot 3's all season, and the Warriors are the greatest 3-point shooting team in NBA history. Over a sustained sample size, the Lakers would have no chance to win a shootout against the Warriors. But we're not dealing with a sustained sample here. We're dealing with 48 minutes. The Lakers can't outshoot the Warriors for a series. They might be able to do so for an hour. Shooting 3's is the single most important thing an underdog can do because shooting 3's increases a game's variance. The longer the shot, the more randomness is typically at play. If you shoot 50 3's, you might ...

This could be a nightmare. The situation has long been a running joke, but it’s not funny now, not with the Lakers in the middle of a serious championship run, not with their big man in the middle of career-defining indomination. Davis could be injured again, and all hell could be about to break loose. With 7:43 left in Game 5 of the Western Conference semifinals Wednesday night, Davis was elbowed in the temple by the Warriors’ Kevon Looney. Nine seconds later, Davis left the game, and so did the Lakers’ hopes, their surging comeback bid snuffed out in a What was once a three-games-to-one rout has become a three-games-to-two nail-biter. Where the Lakers once had three chances to end this, they now have basically one. If they don’t win Game 6 at Crypto.com Arena on Friday night, they will be forced to return here for a Game 7 in a hostile environment against the defending champs and, well, they don’t want any part of that. The Lakers lost to the Warriors 121-106 in Game 5 on Wednesday in San Francisco, unable to secure their trip to the NBA Western Conference finals. What a difference an elbow makes. The Lakers unsurprisingly offered no insight on his condition, and, while TNT’s Chris Haynes reported that Davis “appears to have avoided a concussion,” it was all very mysterious. The only thing certain was the somber Lakers didn’t look thrilled. Davis’ locker was cleaned out by the time the media was allowed entry nearly 30 minutes after the game, so it was left to his perple...

The Fortunately, the news surrounding Davis and his recovery continues to be positive. Davis continues to make pain-free progress on his right foot and there's optimism of a return to the lineup as soon as late next week, according to The All-Star break will begin on Thursday, Feb. 16. A week earlier, another key date sits on the NBA calendar: the Feb. 9 trade deadline. In a perfect world, the Lakers would love to have him back before then so they could see what their whole, healthy team looks like before deciding whether or not to make a deal. Even if Davis returns after that, he could help integrate any new players the Lakers acquire if he makes it back before the All-Star break. Sorry! There was an error processing your subscription. Davis was playing arguably the best basketball of his career before getting injured. He was averaging 27.4 points and 12.1 rebounds per game in leading the Lakers back from a 2-10 start into the play-in race. But after leading the Lakers for the first two months of the season, Davis suffered a stress injury in his foot. He also revealed that he is dealing with a bone spur that may have existed since his college days at Kentucky. All told, the Lakers are likely going to be cautious. If a few missed games in February means a healthy Davis in April, the Lakers will likely take that tradeoff. Still, the news continues to be positive, so if he continues to recover as planned, don't be surprised to see Davis in a Lakers uniform sooner rather than...

ATLANTA— Lakers star big man Anthony Davis said Though Davis hesitated to put a timetable on his return, he said things are moving in the right direction. “It’s healing pretty quickly,” Davis said. “So when we get back to L.A., we’ll do another image of the foot, and see how far it’s healed since the last time I did it, which was the 22nd or the 23rd. And it’s really just about pain. The pain is still there, I still feel it a little bit, not as much as I did before. More like a two [out of 10], trending down to one. I’ve been lifting, and lifting is fine. Everything I do in the weight room is fine. “It was bothering me; it was very painful,” Davis said. “The doctor told me that I had a fracture and a bone spur in my foot. At that moment, and maybe leading into the next day, it was tough for me mentally just because of the fact that coming off last year with the injuries and coming out and having a mindset of getting back to who I want to be as a player, in that mold, and for something like this to happen was tough mentally. “After that, it was just figuring out the next steps to getting back on the floor. The next day, they told me I had a stress reaction in my navicular bone, so I was kinda dealing with two problems. It comes from that piece, the bone spur continuously hitting the navicular bone, causing the stress on it, which is more alarming for me than the bone spur. The stress reaction [can lead to] a stress fracture, and that’s a whole different ballgame.” Davis’ in...

ATLANTA— Lakers star big man Anthony Davis said Though Davis hesitated to put a timetable on his return, he said things are moving in the right direction. “It’s healing pretty quickly,” Davis said. “So when we get back to L.A., we’ll do another image of the foot, and see how far it’s healed since the last time I did it, which was the 22nd or the 23rd. And it’s really just about pain. The pain is still there, I still feel it a little bit, not as much as I did before. More like a two [out of 10], trending down to one. I’ve been lifting, and lifting is fine. Everything I do in the weight room is fine. “It was bothering me; it was very painful,” Davis said. “The doctor told me that I had a fracture and a bone spur in my foot. At that moment, and maybe leading into the next day, it was tough for me mentally just because of the fact that coming off last year with the injuries and coming out and having a mindset of getting back to who I want to be as a player, in that mold, and for something like this to happen was tough mentally. “After that, it was just figuring out the next steps to getting back on the floor. The next day, they told me I had a stress reaction in my navicular bone, so I was kinda dealing with two problems. It comes from that piece, the bone spur continuously hitting the navicular bone, causing the stress on it, which is more alarming for me than the bone spur. The stress reaction [can lead to] a stress fracture, and that’s a whole different ballgame.” Davis’ in...

When Which is why reports — both in the aftermath of Game 5 and now the following day — that Davis has avoided a concussion and is likely to play in Game 6 on Friday. Chris Haynes reported this Thursday. Los Angeles Lakers star Anthony Davis (head injury) is expected to be available for Game 6 on Friday barring a setback, league sources tell — Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) That echoes positive reports out of Game 5, including from Lakers coach “Obviously, everyone saw he took a shot to the head, but we just checked in on him, he seems to be doing really good already,” Ham said. “That’s just where he’s at. That’s the status of it right now.” Lakers coach Darvin Ham shared few specifics about his condition, but the mood from both him and sources close to Davis was optimistic in the immediate aftermath of it all. In the fourth quarter of Game 5, the Warriors’ Anthony Davis took an elbow to the face by Kevon Looney and headed to the Lakers bench 😮 — ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) Davis went to the bench and later to the locker room for observation, he did not return to the game ( Game 6 isn’t must win for the Lakers, who are still up 3-2 on the Warriors, but it’s as close as it gets. The Lakers are 6-0 at Crypto.com Arena this postseason and they don’t want to have to win a Game 7 on the road against But that will require a healthy Davis. It appears the Lakers will have that.

This could be a nightmare. The situation has long been a running joke, but it’s not funny now, not with the Lakers in the middle of a serious championship run, not with their big man in the middle of career-defining indomination. Davis could be injured again, and all hell could be about to break loose. With 7:43 left in Game 5 of the Western Conference semifinals Wednesday night, Davis was elbowed in the temple by the Warriors’ Kevon Looney. Nine seconds later, Davis left the game, and so did the Lakers’ hopes, their surging comeback bid snuffed out in a What was once a three-games-to-one rout has become a three-games-to-two nail-biter. Where the Lakers once had three chances to end this, they now have basically one. If they don’t win Game 6 at Crypto.com Arena on Friday night, they will be forced to return here for a Game 7 in a hostile environment against the defending champs and, well, they don’t want any part of that. The Lakers lost to the Warriors 121-106 in Game 5 on Wednesday in San Francisco, unable to secure their trip to the NBA Western Conference finals. What a difference an elbow makes. The Lakers unsurprisingly offered no insight on his condition, and, while TNT’s Chris Haynes reported that Davis “appears to have avoided a concussion,” it was all very mysterious. The only thing certain was the somber Lakers didn’t look thrilled. Davis’ locker was cleaned out by the time the media was allowed entry nearly 30 minutes after the game, so it was left to his perple...

Very few Yet the Lakers have no alternatives. They've rarely even used a backup center this postseason. And yet there's a chance that's exactly the situation the Lakers may find themselves in come Friday night when they host the There's no good strategy for winning without your best player. That is especially true when your entire system rests on the unique gifts of that player. But inferior NBA teams win games somewhat frequently. Every team in the NBA this season won at least 17 games. The Warriors lost both of their games against the Such a path exists, but it's fairly narrow and carries enormous risk. If the Lakers do indeed have to play Game 6 without Davis, here are the basic strategies they should consider as they would be attempting to pull off what would be an enormous upset. Turn the game into a shooting contest This strategy is going to sound counterintuitive. The Lakers have struggled to shoot 3's all season, and the Warriors are the greatest 3-point shooting team in NBA history. Over a sustained sample size, the Lakers would have no chance to win a shootout against the Warriors. But we're not dealing with a sustained sample here. We're dealing with 48 minutes. The Lakers can't outshoot the Warriors for a series. They might be able to do so for an hour. Shooting 3's is the single most important thing an underdog can do because shooting 3's increases a game's variance. The longer the shot, the more randomness is typically at play. If you shoot 50 3's, you might ...

The Fortunately, the news surrounding Davis and his recovery continues to be positive. Davis continues to make pain-free progress on his right foot and there's optimism of a return to the lineup as soon as late next week, according to The All-Star break will begin on Thursday, Feb. 16. A week earlier, another key date sits on the NBA calendar: the Feb. 9 trade deadline. In a perfect world, the Lakers would love to have him back before then so they could see what their whole, healthy team looks like before deciding whether or not to make a deal. Even if Davis returns after that, he could help integrate any new players the Lakers acquire if he makes it back before the All-Star break. Sorry! There was an error processing your subscription. Davis was playing arguably the best basketball of his career before getting injured. He was averaging 27.4 points and 12.1 rebounds per game in leading the Lakers back from a 2-10 start into the play-in race. But after leading the Lakers for the first two months of the season, Davis suffered a stress injury in his foot. He also revealed that he is dealing with a bone spur that may have existed since his college days at Kentucky. All told, the Lakers are likely going to be cautious. If a few missed games in February means a healthy Davis in April, the Lakers will likely take that tradeoff. Still, the news continues to be positive, so if he continues to recover as planned, don't be surprised to see Davis in a Lakers uniform sooner rather than...