Lakers Injury Report: LeBron James, Anthony Davis Downgraded Ahead Of Game 4
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Your Los Angeles Lakers could be missing their two best players in a possible closeout contest tonight against the Denver Nuggets, in their ongoing Western Conference Finals series.
Future LA Hall of Famers LeBron James (right foot soreness) and Anthony Davis (right foot stress injury) might not be able to suit up for tonight’s must-win Game 4, per the NBA’s latest injury report.
LA trails Denver 0-3 in the series.
If past history is any precedent, this isn’t anything to be too concerned about. James and Davis have been listed on every single injury report throughout these entire playoffs, starting with the team’s eventual overtime play-in game win against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Knowing the gravity of the moment, neither James nor Davis has actually sat out at all yet.
The series took a turn for the worse in a 119-108 Game 3 home defeat for LA, despite All-NBA center Nikola Jokic falling into early foul trouble and star point guard being constricted to perpetual blitzes in the contest’s second half, following a 30-point first half outburst.
No team in NBA history has ever mounted a successful comeback from an 0-3 deficit. It has happened 149 times before, and now both the Lakers and the Boston Celtics (widely hoped by casual fans to meet again in the NBA Finals for a 13th time this year) find themselves on the wrong end of that gap.
James, who after Game 3 spoke about hoping to make history with an epic comeback, seems incredibly likely to play, in particular.
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