The Los Angeles Lakers announced that center Jaxson Hayes has been diagnosed with a left ankle sprain. An MRI confirmed the injury, which occurred during practice Tuesday. Hayes will be re-evaluated in approximately one to two weeks.
The injury comes as an especially unfortunate time considering how thin the Lakers are in the frontcourt with Christian Wood and Jarred Vanderbilt already out. It was recently announced that Wood suffered a setback in his recovery from knee surgery and will miss at least another month.
That leaves Anthony Davis as the lone healthy big man on the roster, and even he is dealing with plantar fasciitis and an eye injury, although he is expected to play through it.