The Los Angeles Lakers are having a start to the 2021/22 NBA season to forget. The franchise, which is currently in 10th position in the Western Conference, with a 5-5 record and showing a very hopeless game, suffered the biggest blow of all this Sunday.
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LeBron James’s abdominal injury , which in principle was going to make him miss just one week of competition (information provided by Shams Charania on November 4), is more serious than it seems.
The purple and gold franchise will have to play between one and two months of competition without its best player. The best forecasts now point to four weeks out, and the worst say that James can go until eight weeks without being able to play a single Lakers game.
This is how Dr. Tim DiFrancesco , former Los Angeles Lakers strength and conditioning coach , Dr. Tim DiFrancesco explains in a statement to The Athletic journalist Bill Oram: torso combined with extreme strength exercise. Even for minor stress, the injury lasts four to eight weeks. “
No room for improvement
This means that both Anthony Davis and Russell Westbrook have to take a step forward. Westbrook spoke in his last statements of a time of adaptation. If you want the Los Angeles Lakers to compete for the top positions in the West, that adaptation will have to come now.