Sunday’s Los Angeles Lakers game against the Minnesota Timberwolves was called off in the second half due to Anthony Davis’s worsening left eye injury.
Late in the first quarter, when Davis was scoring off an offensive rebound, Wolves forward Kyle Anderson unintentionally struck him in the face. After the play, Anthony Davis instantly fell to the floor and put his hands over his face. Los Angeles led 35–30 in the first quarter after the putback dunk. 24.2 seconds he remained.
After using the locker room for assessment, Anthony Davis left without coming back. According to an ESPN reporter with knowledge of the situation, there is hope that Davis will be ready to return to the starting lineup on Tuesday.
In the second quarter, the Wolves defeated the Lakers, who were also missing LeBron James due to flu-like symptoms, 46–27, sans Anthony Davis. On March 16, during the Lakers’ 128-121 defeat to the Golden State Warriors, Davis had a corneal abrasion to his left eye.
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Anthony Davis Later Explained the Whole Issue
In the first quarter, Lakers big player Trayce Jackson-Davis smacked him in the eye, forcing him to leave the game early as well. Davis’s eyelid swelled shut and his eyesight was briefly affected due to the injury, which necessitated that he consult a doctor.
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Anthony Davis later explained “I just couldn’t see, the corneal abrasion was actually right in the middle of my eye. It wasn’t like off to the side. So anytime I looked it was blurry. My eye was swollen. I thought my eye was like, [torn] open. But it wasn’t. It kept watering. It just felt like sand was in my eye.”
The Lakers entered Sunday as the Western Conference’s eighth seed. With three games left in the regular season, the Lakers will face the Warriors, the No. 10 club in the West, on Tuesday.
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