When it rains, it pours for the Los Angeles Lakers.
JJ Redick’s staff was trending up on the proper time earlier than catastrophe struck. Luka Doncic suffered a Grade 2 hamstring pressure, and Austin Reaves suffered a Grade 2 indirect sprain within the span of 24 hours.
They missed the ultimate stretch of the common season, and their standing for the first-round matchup in opposition to the Houston Rockets is up within the air.
ESPN insider Shams Charania lately revealed extra data on their statuses.
Luka Doncic nonetheless has an opportunity to play within the first spherical
“The expectations across the Lakers is that they are going to each be out to begin the primary spherical this weekend,” Charania said on “The Pat McAfee Present.”
Doncic left the nation to hunt various remedy and doubtlessly propel a faster return to motion. As for Reaves, likelihood is that he will not play within the first spherical in any respect.
“Luka Doncic spent the final week in Spain … and he underwent a number of injection remedies in that hamstring,” Charania added. “…My understanding is he’ll again within the states on Tuesday and so they’re going to re-evaluate him. Austin Reaves, he’s out for almost all of this first-round sequence.”
The Lakers held on to safe the third seed, however they will face a tricky, bodily Rockets staff that might make life tough within the paint for LeBron James.
Anticipating the 41-year-old to do all of the heavy lifting won’t be lifelike, despite the fact that he closed out the common season on a excessive observe.
That mentioned, if he can maintain down the fort and safe at the very least one win within the first three video games, they could nonetheless have an opportunity to keep away from an upset if Doncic returns in some unspecified time in the future.
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