Anthony Davis couldn’t move his shoulder after colliding with Giannis Antetokounmpo in the Lakers’ win over the Bucks.
Los Angeles Lakers head coach Darvin Ham said Anthony Davis will undergo further evaluation on his left shoulder after his collision with Giannis Antekounmpo in the second half of the Lakers’ 123-122 win over the Milwaukee Bucks caused him to finish the game in pain.
“I think he got bumped … He’s being looked at,” said Ham. “So we’ll see. We’ll have an update tomorrow at some point.”
Davis grimaced on the Lakers’ bench as he was checked out by a team physician. He returned at the 9:53 mark and played the rest of the game, though he was obviously favoring his shoulder. Davis’ only points of the period came on two free throws, and he grimaced after each one (and pretty much every time he had to lift his left arm).
Ham said postgame that the Lakers would issue an update on Saturday. Davis, wearing a large ice wrap at his locker room said it was “sore.”
“Sore. Couldn’t really move it after that,” he said about the Giannis play. “But, I’ll get some treatment and see how it feels tomorrow.”
LeBron James was already out of the game for the Lakers due to a “day-to-day” ankle injury. Prior to the Bucks game, Ham stated that LeBron was dealing with “severe soreness” and that the condition wouldn’t get better until the offseason.
LeBron has missed nine games this season due to a tendon problem, and he had to leave Wednesday’s game against the Sacramento Kings a few minutes early.