A lot of things went wrong for the Los Angeles Lakers this season, but it’s hard to argue that injuries weren’t chief among them. LeBron James missed the most games of his career, while Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram, Rajon Rondo and Josh Hart — among others — have all missed significant chunks of time.
Undoubtedly the most impactful among those absences was James missing a career-high 27 games total (by the end of the season) with a groin injury, but as badly as the Lakers collapsed on the court while was out, James told Howard Beck of Bleacher Report that it wasn’t just his productivity the team was missing:
“My injury was the worst thing that could have happened to our team at that point in time,” James told B/R.