As Anthony Davis writhed around on the floor of the Target Center in the 3rd quarter of Friday’s win over the Timberwolves, I resigned myself to the fact that the Lakers season might have just functionally ended. Davis, after stepping on the foot of teammate Wenyen Gabriel, rolled his ankle and immediately collapsed to the court while grabbing at his foot.
This is it, I thought. My brain then led to the dark place... Davis would go to the locker room, we’d get an update from Mike Trudell that he was out for the rest of the game, shortly after that we’d get a Woj tweet saying that Davis would soon receive X-rays and an MRI, and assuming the same sort of injury luck the team has had all year, the Lakers season, for all intents and purposes, would be over.