On top of a gut punch of a loss in Game 2 vs. the Nuggets, the Lakers also saw LeBron James go down with an ankle injury late in the fourth quarter of the contest. As he always does, LeBron played through it but after the game, Darvin Ham noted that he was being evaluated by the training staff after the game.
“Can’t really speak on it right now,” Ham said of LeBron’s injury. “He’s being evaluated. So we’ll see. It will be hard to keep him out of this mix though.”
LeBron himself spoke postgame and made his status on Game 3 clear.