Since Christmas, injuries have become the story of the Lakers season.
They’ve missed 76 individual player games to injury, including 18 for Rajon Rondo, 17 for LeBron James, seven for Brandon Ingram and four for both Lonzo Ball and Kyle Kuzma. In other words, nearly all of their key players have missed at least one combined week of action. Josh Hart, meanwhile, hasn’t missed any games, but has been dealing with knee tendinitis for much of the month of January.
In related news, the Lakers have gone 6-11 to fall to the No. 9 seed in the West, after starting 20-14 to be slotted in the No.