On February 17, Beijing time, the NBA regular season Lakers against the Jazz, this battle, the Lakers once fell behind by 14 points, but in the final quarter of the Jedi counterattack, 37-year-old James, a single quarter cut 15 points, and finally contributed 33 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists, with a dream back to the peak posture, leading the Lakers to reverse the Jazz to win, the score of 106-101.
However, the Lakers also suffered a major blow in this campaign, the team's other core Davis, in the first half of a scramble for rebounds, landed 90 degrees of wei foot injury, and then fell to the ground in pain and left the court. According to the first-line media shooting, davis returned to the players' tunnel, he could not even walk on his own, needed the support of teammates Jordan Jr. and Howard, and was eventually directly carried out of the field.
Despite a temporary examination that resulted in a negative X-ray of Davis' ankle, the Lakers decided that Davis would be treated during All-Star leave and re-evaluated when the team returned.
Only from the perspective of the degree of the foot, Davis can not walk the level of injury, is expected to miss 4-6 weeks, when the regular season is near the end, according to the Lakers are not yet in the top eight rankings in the West, Davis's injury this time, it is likely that the Lakers' strength in the second half of the season will completely fail, losing Davis, the Lakers' overall paper strength decline is obvious, it is difficult to do the later impact of higher Western rankings.
Previously, Davis had been absent for a long time, because in the Lakers' game against the Timberwolves, first the foot was broken, and then he was hit by James's knee, leaving the court with consecutive injuries, and directly missed many games. Injuries have become the main theme of Davis this season, it is worth noting that last season's Lakers playoffs first round against the Suns, when it was because of Davis's injury, resulting in a rapid decline in the team's competitiveness, as the defending champion to stop the first round of the playoffs. It can be seen that Davis's frequent injuries are the biggest problem for the Lakers at present, a core level figure of the team, who has been injured for a long time and cannot play, and the Lakers naturally cannot achieve the expected results.
After the Lakers reverse the Jazz, the NBA league will enter the short vacation of the All-Star Game, and Davis, who does not have an All-Star mission, can rest well.
Throughout the season so far, the Lakers' performance and performance are stumbling, from the beginning of the season is still considered to be a championship team, to a long time the official strength list ranked about 20th, it is clear that today's Lakers, the outside world is no longer optimistic about their impact on the championship, this Lakers still have many problems to solve. Only for the 37-year-old James, the old man's personal peak is few left, in the 19th season of his personal career, James stayed in the Lakers basically can not see the possibility of impacting the championship, joined the Lakers so far for the fourth year, the first three years to win a championship, the remaining two years once missed the playoffs, once stopped the first round, this season looks bad prospects. It can be expected that if James insists on staying in the Lakers, it will be difficult for old Zhan to get his 5th championship ring, and this Lakers are not so competitive!
(Lin Xiaoxiang)