Breaking news : Luka injured according to Shams ( at least a week)

[Dominator83]

In before ''Kobe played with a broken finger whole year''

Great fan of both players, but Luka is doing the right thing. He should save his long term health. The Lakers are not competitive this year, and they could use an high 2026 pick

How are they not competitive this year? They have the version of Luka that carried the Mavs to the finals. And Lebron, even at this point is as good as it gets for a #2. They have as good of a chance as anybody

[Rust_Cohle]

They could find themselves something like 4-12 by the time LeBron gets back.

Wouldn’t surprise me if they’re only marginally better with LeBron when he returns if he defends like he did for the first 3/4 of last year.

[jigga_man]

With LeBron shadow suspended this is going to hurt

[Wolfgang630]

The Luka and AD trade will become mostly a wash

[Dr Aki]

This entire first few weeks is a write off

[og15]

He has played 38 mpg over two games. In 23-24 for example, he played 70 games at 37.5 mpg.

If we start criticizing coaches for 38 mpg over two games at the start of the season, we've gotten out of hand.

Yeah I know how many MPG he played, if he has other guys like Kyrie in 23-24, then great. We watched him basically solo score points over and over, it's a huge load to expect of someone. JJ played him 35MPG last year, I think that's more sustainable and his career average. Your 37.5 figure he did once with a full season of Kyrie.

I'm not ripping JJ, I just worry JJ might chase wins and overload him with LeBron out.

If he was playing that half the season, it's a different situation, but two games in, he played 41 in a close loss (was closer than the 10 points) and then 35 in an 18 ot win.

It's not anywhere close to enough games for us to think he'll be playing 38 mpg the whole season or for us to suggest it has anything to do with an early injury, which is a finger injury anyway, and a thigh contusion which is a bang bang injury. Of course two games in, no one is getting overuse injuries yet unless they are Mr. Glass which Luka is not.

[1993Playoffs]

Ugh it’s always something with his leg

[Handlez]

Kobe would play.

Lakers still with no replacement.

Weak sauce.

[Handlez]

In before ''Kobe played with a broken finger whole year''

Kobe would be playing.

No one wss more competitive.

Luka is okay with tanking.

[MavsDirk41]

Wishing Luka a speedy recovery. He has been great the first couple games.

[JN61]

Fat was shielding him. Gotta go back on that Jokic diet.

[FrobeBryant]

The Luka and AD trade will become mostly a wash

Or, you’re hoping it will

[Ssj16]

I'm surprised this is happening to Luka Ozempic

[ball_takes23]

He looked chubby again.

Took a look at his Slovenia national play highlights from a month ago and then back to the other nights 49pt game and his face and midsection is definitely fatter lol.


Luka can reach arguably the best player status whenever but it appears already that he lacks discipline and is quite injury prone. Phenomenal player otherwise.

he hurt his finger, has nothing to do with his belly

[Wallace_Wallace]

The Lakers will have to play catchup for the first time 20 games or so. They’ll likely be under .500 when both James and Doncic are back healthy.

[BigDan245]

I thought he broke his hand when it happened...Not surprised he did something.

[Archx]

The Luka and AD trade will become mostly a wash

Something insanely drastic would need to happen for this to be true.

[Larry Ellison]

Austin Reaves beast mode is about to begin!

[mademan]

Tragedy of Nico will be that he was right about Luka, but made a horrible trade (side stepping the conspiracy theory). Guy's always hurt, and even when he's playing, he's always bleeding or limping or grimacing. Still tho, guys a showstopper...i dunno how the owners ok'd it

[sikma42]

In before ''Kobe played with a broken finger whole year''

To be fair, that’s what happened


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