The team has faced a myriad of health issues this season, but there have only been two players on the Lakers injury report for the entire year so far: Kendrick Nunn and Trevor Ariza, two offseason additions who both came over from the Miami Heat in free agency in the summer.
Nunn — the team’s fifth-highest paid player, and one of only five Lakers not making the veteran’s minimum — has been out since near the end of the preseason with what the team has only called a “bone bruise” to this point.