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Given the number of injuries the Los Angeles Lakers have sustained this year, Sunday’s game truly felt like a classic case of déjà vu. In the most literal sense of the term, it served as a painful reminder of the kind of adversity this team has gone through. There is a reason the Lakers finished seventh in the West.
While losing Sunday afternoon’s game was enough of a blow, the Lakers were without one of their stars for the entirety of the second half. Big man Anthony Davis suffered a left groin strain in the later stages of the first half and never saw another minute of action.