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Luka Dončić Leaves Game With Leg Contusion, Undermanned Lakers Lose to Clippers
The Lakers have not been an offensive juggernaut this year on a game-to-game basis, and on Saturday against the Clippers at the Intuit Dome arrived without Austin Reaves, Deandre Ayton and as a late addition to the injury report, Rui Hachimura. That's a lot of production in street clothes.
And then Luka Dončić took the floor, and looked uncomfortable physically from the jump. It only got worse. By halftime he was limping around pretty clearly... and then he didn't return for the third and fourth quarters.
So now it was LeBron James leading a game-but-limited crew, and the result was a…
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