Earlier this week, the Los Angeles Lakers announced that veteran forward Trevor Ariza would miss at least the next two months following an “arthroscopic debridement” of the ailing right ankle that had sidelined him for the entire preseason aside from the team’s first practice. It’s a big loss for a team that was short on wing-sized forwards, and according to head coach Frank Vogel, Ariza really tried to avoid being sidelined for so long.
“Trevor did everything he could to make it through the injury without missing any time or without any procedure,” Vogel said on Friday.