Isaiah Thomas’s nightmare season is officially and mercifully over, brought to a premature close by the hip surgery he had long hoped to avoid.
The Lakers announced Wednesday that the two-time All-Star point guard will undergo arthroscopic surgery on the bothersome right hip that kept him from recapturing the often-magical form he showed last season with the Celtics. After becoming one of the league’s most underpaid stars in Boston, the 29-year-old Thomas spent his long-awaited contract year sidelined for months, traded from Cleveland to LA, and then dumped to a sixth man role with the Lakers as he struggled badly on both ends.