(Los Angeles) LeBron James, insufficiently recovered from a sprained left ankle, will not play the Lakers game in Phoenix on Tuesday night, determining to keep a tiny chance of hanging the qualifying playoffs for the playoffs.
Posted at 2:37 p.m.
“LeBron James is out of tonight’s game in Phoenix,” his team announced on Twitter.
This absence will be extremely detrimental for LA, which no longer has the right to make mistakes at the end of the regular season. There are four games left to play and the Californians ranked 11and in the West, two wins behind San Antonio (10and), must win them to avoid the fiasco of an elimination even before the playoffs.
A defeat for the Suns, leaders of the championship, which would be the 7and in a row, could record this failure, if at the same time the Spurs win in Denver.
The Lakers, who recorded the encouraging return of Anthony Davis after a month and a half of absence, also for a sprained ankle, are therefore bound to the feat in the current cador of the League, certainly turned on the playoffs playoffs to come and perhaps not as much mobilized by this match without stake for him.