Anthony Davis helped off after landing very awkwardly and hurting his ankle

[The Laker Kid]

Question: Why don’t basketball players wear high cut shoes? You know, the shoes with laces that go higher than normal kinda like boots. Sure It limits your ankle movement but it supports your ankle and makes it hard to tweak.

Someone should come up with computer controlled boots that is constantly monitoring your movements and locks up when it senses an impending ankle tweak. Probably an assfault-level idea, but it’s probably worth developing.

[KingFox]

This happens. He'll be out a week or two, might even be back by the time the all-star break is done

AD doesn't seem like the type to play through injury though. If it isn't fully healed, i don't see him wanting to get out there so soon.

[Lalouie]

and there we have it

ad is what he is

what are the lakers stuck with after lebron leaves(to join bronny).
in 1 or 2 years, bronny will be 18or19 with his former hs teammate zaire already playing, there is NO DOUBT lebron will pull strings to get bronny into the league - after next year if possible. so we can surmise that lebron will be gone(because what idiot org will draft bronny just to keep aged lebron on the team. magic/jeannie/pelinka/rambis can't be THAT UTTERLY STUPID), westbrook will be retired with 16yrs, and ad will be a mere wisp of his former injury prone self

the lakers are REALLY screwed. and here i thought the lakers were MERELY screwed

[lambchop]

Honestly never seen anything like AD. Dude is injury prone all the time. His physical prime ended in like 2018, but not due to a career altering injury, but rather due to multiple minor, day to day injuries that stopped him from ever truly physically exerting himself again.

[levon]

AD has played ~67% of his regular season games with the Lakers. Paul George similar with ~65% and dropping. Kawhi by my calculation, a little over 50% and dropping.

Yet he's the lightning rod for all this. Despite dudes hi age and younger missing more time earlier in their careers. Give me a break.

Both of his injuries this year were contact injuries and bad luck.

The NBA has a superstar injury problem league-wide.

[TheLand13]

Doubt he misses much time. Even if he does miss time, LeBron can carry the team through the play-in alone. Add AD back to the team and they have a chance to upset whoever they play in the first round.

You’re being sarcastic right?

[Usual Suspects]

Why would someone with his injury history ever play in low-tops?

[TheLand13]

if this summer there still is a team stupid enough to trade for him giving up 75 cents on the dollar to lakers, pelinka needs to pull the trigger before things go worse and you cant get more than 25 cents on the dollar.

Oh some team will roll the dice on him. Kevin Durant got a full max coming off an Achilles tear, plus another max extension after playin 47 games in 2 years.

FYI - Kevin Durant has played a total 78 games since joining the Brooklyn Nets in 2019.

Yeah… because it’s the Nets. A franchise literally incapable of doing anything right (although their return for harden was good so I’ll give them that). If this keeps happening, I can’t see any team not named the Nets giving AD a significant contract.

[BloodNinja]

This dude made of glass

[NO-KG-AI]

AD has played ~67% of his regular season games with the Lakers. Paul George similar with ~65% and dropping. Kawhi by my calculation, a little over 50% and dropping.

Yet he's the lightning rod for all this. Despite dudes hi age and younger missing more time earlier in their careers. Give me a break.

Both of his injuries this year were contact injuries and bad luck.

The NBA has a superstar injury problem league-wide.

You have to account for how many times Davis starts, plays 5-10 mins, falls down, goes to the locker room and never returns.

[Bolivar]

I can't believe this is 4 pages without Day to Davis.

[Mos_Heat]

and there we have it

ad is what he is

what are the lakers stuck with after lebron leaves(to join bronny).
in 1 or 2 years, bronny will be 18or19 with his former hs teammate zaire already playing, there is NO DOUBT lebron will pull strings to get bronny into the league - after next year if possible. so we can surmise that lebron will be gone(because what idiot org will draft bronny just to keep aged lebron on the team. magic/jeannie/pelinka/rambis can't be THAT UTTERLY STUPID), westbrook will be retired with 16yrs, and ad will be a mere wisp of his former injury prone self

the lakers are REALLY screwed. and here i thought the lakers were MERELY screwed

2 years from now AD still will net you 2 lightly protected 1sts

[_NoMas]

Man that absolutely sucks. That still shot of his ankle is gross as hell.

I cannot say enough times how much I hate injuries changing the fate of teams and players over and over. I mean I loathe the Lakers in general (no offense to diehards here, y'all coo) and have always raised a brow (snicker) at Davis' seeming predilection to common minor injuries, but that looked brutal.

It's a lose/lose. Now I have to hope that we hear it's a minor sprain after all and he'll be back in 2 weeks, and the cycle of hating on AD for his injuries will continue. Sucks.

Agree re. Injuries. Although in this scenario it’s likely changing fate from an exit in the first round to a play in loss…

[R-DAWG]

Having had really bad ankle sprains than took months to heal and even after a year it didn't feel proper I never got so much pain initially that I needed to roll and scream, really the pain initially is very minimal but after few hours really bad and needing painkillers. I wonder if it's something more severe or if Davis is softest player to ever play this game.

Regardless he will be out from month to few months minimum I reckon.

AD seems like a guy with a lower pain tolerance than the average NBA player.

ehhh.....

I think most of us are exiting that game if our foot bends Parrel. Sure some of us were high as hell during that game, so it's possible some would not figure it out, but they would likely be out by tomorrow.

For this injury for sure. And the same with the knee injury earlier this year against MINN. But in general, it feels like the trainers are coming out to see him more than other NBA players.

I remember there being a conversation in New York about how Eli Manning would never grimace while Mark Sanchez would really show pain.

[RoyceDa59]

Day to Davis.

[R-DAWG]

Honestly never seen anything like AD. Dude is injury prone all the time. His physical prime ended in like 2018, but not due to a career altering injury, but rather due to multiple minor, day to day injuries that stopped him from ever truly physically exerting himself again.

We have actually seen this a lot with these 6-10+ guys who play above the rim. I remember growing up as a Knick fan and Marcus Camby was very similar to AD in the sense that there were constant injuries, most of them related to tough falls. Kristapas Porzignis is another guy with a similar build/game who can't stay healthy.

[Liam_Gallagher]

Good thing their next game isn't until next Friday.

[R-DAWG]

if this summer there still is a team stupid enough to trade for him giving up 75 cents on the dollar to lakers, pelinka needs to pull the trigger before things go worse and you cant get more than 25 cents on the dollar.

Oh some team will roll the dice on him. Kevin Durant got a full max coming off an Achilles tear, plus another max extension after playin 47 games in 2 years.

FYI - Kevin Durant has played a total 78 games since joining the Brooklyn Nets in 2019.

Yeah… because it’s the Nets. A franchise literally incapable of doing anything right (although their return for harden was good so I’ll give them that). If this keeps happening, I can’t see any team not named the Nets giving AD a significant contract.

To be honest, the Nets do a lot right and are quietly becoming one of the better organizations in the league.

The net of the James Harden trade:

Net sent out:
Caris LaVert
Jarrett Allen
3 unprotected 1st rd picks
4 unprotected pick swaps (1 already has not conveyed)

Nets received:
Ben Simmons
Seth Curry
Andre Drummond
Unprotected 1st
Protected future 1st

Essentially, LaVert for Curry is a wash (you could even make the argument that Seth is more valuable), and let's keep Drummond out of the conversation because he's a minimum guy. The PHIL 22 or 23 1st will offset the 22 1st that BK is sending to HOU.

So basically, the Nets traded Jarrett Allen, 2 unprotected 1sts, and 3 unprotected swaps (although next years swap likely won convey) for Ben Simons and a top 8 protected 1st (It isn't a shoe in that these picks convey in 27/28 when Harden will be 37-38 and Embid 32-33). If you posted this trade on the RealGM boards at the start of last season you would have been killed.

But outside of the Harden trade, the Nets have done a great job in the margins, using their limited draft capital to trade for Landry Shamet, and then turn Shamet into Cam Thomas. They also stole Bruce Brown and found a steal in Nic Claxton. One of the big differences between the Nets and the Lakers right now is the Lakers have a roster full of vet min, older players while the Nets have younger guys who are outperforming their contracts in those roles.

[BrianFitz]

AD has played ~67% of his regular season games with the Lakers. Paul George similar with ~65% and dropping. Kawhi by my calculation, a little over 50% and dropping.

Yet he's the lightning rod for all this. Despite dudes hi age and younger missing more time earlier in their careers. Give me a break.

Both of his injuries this year were contact injuries and bad luck.

The NBA has a superstar injury problem league-wide.

Everyone you just named is made of glass. What's your point?

[mpoo_sin]

AD has played ~67% of his regular season games with the Lakers. Paul George similar with ~65% and dropping. Kawhi by my calculation, a little over 50% and dropping.

Yet he's the lightning rod for all this. Despite dudes hi age and younger missing more time earlier in their careers. Give me a break.

Both of his injuries this year were contact injuries and bad luck.

The NBA has a superstar injury problem league-wide.

You are listing players who had injuries that required season+ long to recover. The unique thing about Davis is that he misses time because a myriad of minor injuries.