For a brief moment in the fourth quarter Tuesday night, everything in Los Angeles stopped. Luka Doncic, in the middle of a 43-point masterpiece against the Golden State Warriors, grabbed at his groin.
That was the same area that has sidelined him before. You could almost feel the collective gasp from Los Angeles Lakers fans across the city.
By Wednesday morning, the tension broke. Head coach JJ Redick calmed the nerves with an update: “He seems to be fine. I don’t think it’s anything major. He got some treatment this morning, and we didn’t practice long, but he was a participant in practice.