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The Los Angeles Lakers are back on the road again as they begin a five-game road trip that will take them through five different Eastern Conference cities, including four teams that are currently in the playoff picture, starting tonight with the Orlando Magic. But as they begin their trip, they’ll be without a key piece while they’ll also be getting one back on Wednesday night.
Lakers forward Kyle Kuzma has been ruled out of Wednesday’s road-trip opener with a sprained left ankle, according to Kyle Goon of the Southern California News Group. Kuzma is day-to-day going forward, according to Lakers.com’s Mike Trudell.
Kyle Kuzma is out tonight in Orlando due to soreness and discomfort from the left ankle sprain that happened vs. Washington (11/29). The medical staff is holding him out to promote healing; he’ll be day-to-day moving forward.
— Mike Trudell (@LakersReporter) December 11, 2019
Kuzma missed the start of the season recovering from a stress reaction that he suffered while playing for USA Basketball over the summer and he had been dealing with this same ankle injury for parts of this season as well.
However, the Lakers will be getting back guard Avery Bradley tonight against the Magic. Bradley has been out since November 15 with a hairline fracture in his leg but he had been slowly ramping up his workload during the team’s last road trip before being cleared for full-contact this past weekend.