Los Angeles Lakers star Anthony Davis could return as soon as January.
Dave McMenamin and Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN broke the news Sunday.
Davis suffered a stress injury in his right foot in the Lakers‘ Dec. 16th win over the Denver Nuggets. Sources told Wojnarowski that Davis “had a subsiding of pain in his right foot stress injury and is expected to re-evaluate the possibility of resuming play after another seven-to-10 days of rest.”
The report notes Lakers and Davis will “remain cautious on the injury, but there’s hope that there could be a pathway to resuming play sometime shortly after the re-evaluation in early January.”
Davis injured his foot in a collision with Nuggets’ star Nikola Jokic near the basket game in the first quarter of that Dec. 16 game.
The Lakers changed Davis’ diagnosis from foot soreness to a stress injury after an “extensive consultation” with team doctors and outside specialists.
The team believed Davis would miss “multiple weeks of playing time at minimum, because of the injury,” according to ESPN.
“For now, there’s hope that a procedure can be avoided,” a source told the network about the Lakers’ current thinking.
The Lakers originally traded for Davis, then of the New Orleans Pelicans, in June 2019.
[ESPN]
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