The Lakers have had some injuries throughout the season but one that has hurt them the most is that of Anthony Davis. The Laker Big man has been out for the past month due to a sprained foot. The injury update from ESPN\u2019s Adrian Wojnarowski doesn\u2019t seem to give the team or their fans any hope of Anthony Davis returning soon. To add salt to the wound, Talen Horton Tucker (THT) who has been balling the past few games is also battling through injury.<\/p>\n
Talen Horton Tucker told the media that he was battling through a grade 2 strain on his foot. He said, \u201cMy ankle, I had a Grade 2 sprain, so I\u2019m still dealing with it. It\u2019s still painful. I\u2019m just trying to play through it until the end of the season because we\u2019ve got to get some wins. Any way I can help, I feel like I need to be out there. I\u2019m trying to play through it, (even if) it still hurts.\u201d \u2013 via Harrison Faigen of Silver Screen and Roll. This comes in addition to injuries to players like Anthony Davis and Kendrick Nunn.<\/p>\n
THT has been great for the Lakers the past few games. He has been huge defensively and brings energy to a Laker team that desperately needs it. Talen has been averaging 16.5 points over the last 2 games. He has struggled throughout the season and the ankle could be a major reason why. With Davis out as well, it is more bad news for a Laker team that could do without it.<\/p>\n
Woj reported that Davis\u2019 return will not be as soon as the team thought he would be back. He reported that Davis has progressed well with rehab but his return isn\u2019t imminent. The hope is that the team can progress to the Play-in and then to the Playoffs before Davis returns. For a team that has needed a 37-year-old LeBron James to score 50 points to win a game, Davis\u2019 absence is going to be a huge blow to the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It doesn\u2019t look good for the Lakers with their main piece in Davis out and THT, who has been great for the battle through injury. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":38513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2036,2238,1073,1071,826,2795],"class_list":["post-17769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-anthony-davis","tag-espn","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-talen-horton-tucker"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}