Perhaps Tuesday night will be remembered as The Anthony Davis Flu Game.
The Los Angeles Lakers are in Denver tonight to face the Nuggets, starting a three-game road trip and a stretch of eight of their next nine games they will play on the road. But they will be fighting an uphill battle as several members of the team are dealing with “flu-like symptoms,” including star big man Anthony Davis, according to Tania Ganguli of the Los Angeles Times.
Davis is no stranger to playing through maladies as he has fought through shoulder and rib injuries this season to play in all but one game so far this season. It’s also quite the time for Davis to come down ill in a showdown against Nikola Jokic and the Nuggets, who are currently No. 2 in the Western Conference behind Davis and the Lakers.
Still, illness or not, tonight’s showdown between the two best teams in the Western Conference so far shouldn’t be a letdown.