Lakers star Anthony Davis leaves loss to Timberwolves early with eye injury after taking shot to face

Los Angeles Lakers star Anthony Davis left their 127-117 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves early on Sunday night time after he aggravated a watch damage.

Davis took an inadvertent shot to the face from Timberwolves ahead Kyle Anderson late within the first quarter of the sport at Crypto.com Enviornment in Los Angeles. Davis picked up a rebound and was going for a put-back dunk when Anderson made contact together with his eye. Whereas Davis accomplished the dunk, he hit the ground laborious after and was clearly in ache.

Davis left the sport as a result of damage, and the workforce then dominated him out within the second half with a left eye damage. He completed with 4 factors and 4 rebounds in 12 minutes.

The hit to his eye aggravated a corneal abrasion he first sustained in a loss to the Golden State Warriors final month after Trayce Jackson-Davis hit him within the eye. Davis left the sport early that night time, too, and he noticed a specialist after his imaginative and prescient was impaired and his eyelid was swollen shut.

Whereas it’s unclear how extreme the damage is, there may be “optimism” that Davis will have the ability to return for the Lakers’ subsequent recreation on Tuesday night time, in line with McMenamin.

With out Davis and LeBron James — who was dominated out with flu-like signs — the Timberwolves rolled previous the Lakers on Sunday night time. They outscored the Lakers by 19 factors within the second quarter and held on to seize the 10-point win behind 31 factors from Naz Reid and 26 factors from Anthony Edwards. The Timberwolves improved to 54-24 with the win, which has them in first within the Western Convention standings.

Rui Hachimura led the Lakers with 30 factors within the loss. Jaxson Hayes added 19 factors and 10 rebounds off the bench, and Spencer Dinwiddie completed with 18 factors. The Lakers fell to 45-34 after the loss. They now sit ninth within the Western Convention standings with simply three video games left within the common season.