EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Lonzo Ball went through his first contact practice since spraining his left MCL but has been ruled out through the All-Star break as the Los Angeles Lakers hope to give their rookie point guard another week and a half to recover.
Ball has missed 13 straight games since suffering the injury on Jan. 13 and the point guard will not play in the Lakers' upcoming back-to-back set at New Orleans and Minnesota. While there has yet to be an official determination on Ball's status for the Rising Stars game on Friday, head coach Luke Walton assumed his starting point guard will sit that game out too.