After a sloppy loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday, the Los Angeles Lakers will be without LeBron James in the second leg of their back-to-back against the Houston Rockets on Thursday.
LeBron is inactive with a sore right groin, although it very well could be the case of the LeBron wanting to stay fresh and not play a back-to-back with the first seed in the West already clinched.
That is mere speculation, however. Anthony Davis, Dwight Howard and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope were also all listed as probable with several different nagging injuries while Alex Caruso was listed as questionable with neck spasms.