Lakers Say Guard Unlikely to Return This Year From Injury

The Los Angeles Lakers lost too many players to injuries and LeBron James is one of them. The four-time NBA champion is back into action, but the team has just provided a concerning update. A Lakers guard may not return from his injury by the end of this year.

Kendrick Nunn is out due to a bone bruise and has yet to make an impact on the court. Frank Vogel’s latest update will probably shut down your hopes to see Nunn on the floor this year.

“Probably not,” Vogel told the media. “But there’s no firm timeline on that. We’ll see. I would say probably not.”

Dave McMenamin from ESPN shared similar thoughts. According to him, Nunn won’t see any action in the near future.

“That’s tough blow, you use your mid-level exception in the offseason to get him and you haven’t gotten one minute from him yet,” McMenamin said on the Lowe Post Podcast. “And there’s a feeling within the team that a combination of Monk, Talen Horton-Tucker and Nunn can give them this dynamic playmaker kind of second look that they didn’t have on either of last two season’s teams, but they haven’t been able to put that team into fruition yet.”

The Lakers got Nunn for a reason but they may not get the best of him this time.

Lakers guard may not return from injury in 2021, Vogel expects another veteran to hit the floor

Nunn is nowhere to be seen right now, but Lakers fans are looking forward to see Trevor Ariza’s debut with the team. Vogel revealed that the veteran has participated in scrimmage play, adding that Ariza will need a little more time before he joins the team.

“He participated in live-action for the first time, in scrimmage play,” the Lakers head coach said after practice. “He still looks like he has a ways to go to get his legs under him and all those types of things. It still feels a little bit weak for him. But not painful, if that makes sense. It’s going to take time for him to build strength in the ankle and, obviously, get his legs under him. But he participated in full scrimmage, yes.”