After aggravating an eye injury on Sunday night, Los Angeles Lakers star Anthony Davis departed the team’s 127-117 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves early.
During the game at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, late in the first quarter, Davis unintentionally took a shot to the face from Kyle Anderson of the Timberwolves. Anderson touched Davis’s eye as he was attempting a put-back dunk after Davis grabbed a rebound. Even though Davis finished the dunk, he was obviously in discomfort as he hit the ground hard.
Davis’s injury forced him to leave the game, and the club declared him out of the second half due to a left eye injury. In 12 minutes, he finished with four points and four rebounds.
The blow to his eye exacerbated a corneal abrasion that Trayce Jackson-Davis had initially given him during a game against the Golden State Warriors last month. Davis also left the game early that evening, seeing a specialist when his eyelid swelled shut and his eyesight became blurry.
“I just couldn’t see,” Davis said last month, via ESPN’s Dave McMenamin. “The corneal abrasion was actually right in the middle of my eye. It wasn’t like off to the side. So anytime I looked it was blurry. My eye was swollen. I thought my eye was like, [torn] open. But it wasn’t. It kept watering. It just felt like sand was in my eye.”
Although the extent of the injury is unknown, McMenamin said there is “optimism” that Davis will be able to play in the Lakers’ upcoming game on Tuesday night.
No LeBron James, A Lot of problems ?
LeBron James was ruled out due to flu-like symptoms, and Davis was absent from the game on Sunday night as the Timberwolves defeated the Lakers. With 31 points from Naz Reid and 26 points from Anthony Edwards, they defeated the Lakers by 19 points in the second quarter and managed to hold on for a 10-point victory. With the victory, the Timberwolves advanced to 54-24 and now lead the Western Conference standings.
LeBron James in action against the LA Clippers
With 30 points in the defeat, Rui Hachimura led the Lakers. After coming off the bench, Jaxson Hayes scored 19 points and pulled down 10 rebounds, while Spencer Dinwiddie scored 18 in total. After the defeat, the Lakers dropped to 45-34. With three games remaining in the regular season, they currently occupy the ninth spot in the Western Conference rankings.
