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Lakers Clear To Lonzo Ball For Non-Contact Basketball Activities, Plan To Re-Evaluate Him & Decline To Confirm Reports Of Being Shut Down For Remainder Of Season

Not long after the Los Angeles Lakers announced Brandon Ingram would miss the remainder of the season due to Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT) — a blood clot — in his right arm, reports began to surface Lonzo Ball likely faced the same scenario.

The former No. 2 pick in the 2017 NBA Draft originally suffered a Grade 3 ankle sprain against the Houston Rockets on Jan. 19. As Ball’s expected return timetable was 4-6 weeks, he was making progress by running on an underwater treadmill in hopes of moving onto an Alter-G anti-gravity treadmill.