Los Angeles star Lakers Anthony Davis will be lost for about 4 weeks due to a calf detente suffered in Sunday’s loss to the Denver Nuggets, Lakers coach Frank Vogel told reporters after Thursday night’s game. The initial diagnosis predicted that it would be reassessed in two to three weeks. However, your absence will be longer after being evaluated by the team’s doctors. He also aggravated the Achilles tendon that prevented him from entering last week, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN. reach the basket, however, was interrupted and victim of a foul through Nikola Jokic.
After the whistle, Davis climbed the basket and grabbed his Achilles, controlled to reach the line, but winceed and appeared to suffer seriously while making his loose pitches. When the Nuggets attacked the ball, he made no effort to move. and had the Lakers give him a foul to avoid the game, so he could just quit the game and head to the locker room.
Last week, Davis missed two games because of this Achilles tendon and told reporters he sought to be as careful as you could imagine because of the threat related to this notorious part of the picture:
“I think all the other Array games . . . I was looking to play. It’s just one more circumstance of being an Achilles. If it was a quadriceps or a finger, something like that, he wouldn’t give me to play. But I don’t need to do it”. playing with an Achilles. Today was the first day we were able to train, run around with the boys to check it out. “
“I just don’t need to play a game where I’m still sorry, then hurt myself and now I’m out for the playoffs or anything else or for several weeks, where there’s something I can’t and I stay where you miss two or three games at the start of the season or mid-season and be in position for the rest of the season. “
Davis will now overcome the All-Star Break, an unwelcome time for the Lakers, as they are about to embark on one of the toughest stages of their calendar: they have seven games left in their first half of the calendar and five of them oppose Heat, Jazz, Blazers, Warriors and Suns.
But so far this season, the Lakers have a 5-2 record in the games Davis has missed, largely thanks to LeBron James, who is riding a solid MVP crusade to lead the Lakers despite Davis’ injuries and problems at first. If you can keep the team afloat with Davis over the next few weeks, your candidacy will only be strengthened, as will the team’s hopes of repeating itself as the No seed. 1 at the Western Conference.
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