The Lakers haven’t gotten a ton of good injury news this season, and that’s putting it mildly. After all this is a team that was forced to play a game with just eight active, full-time NBA players on its roster last week, but thankfully, the return of Talen Horton-Tucker on Sunday offered — at least for the moment — a brief respite from those woes.
Horton-Tucker had missed the team’s previous 11 games while recovering from right thumb surgery he underwent during training camp, but if he hadn’t been wearing a light, protective brace in his first start of the season, it would have been hard to notice he’d missed any time.