Like many Los Angeles Lakers fan favorites, Ivica Zubac’s journey into the hearts and minds of the team’s dedicated fan base began in Las Vegas.
But while Zubac was a relative unknown entering the event in 2016, the promise he started to show in the Thomas and Mack center carried over into a regular season in which he went from D-League assignments to hearing his name called amongst the Lakers starters in the span of a few months.
Zubac has been declared out for the rest of the season with a high ankle sprain, a disappointing development for himself and the team.