Lakers Injury Report: LeBron James, Anthony Davis Downgraded Vs Celtics

Los Angeles Lakers All-Star starter LeBron James and presumably soon-to-be-announced All-Star reserve Anthony Davis (those announcements are incoming tonight) will miss LA's game against the mighty Boston Celtics, who at 37-11 are the top seed in the Eastern Conference.

The 24-25 Lakers are currently 0-2 in their six-game "Grammy Road Trip" (Crypto.com Arena is otherwise indisposed), and it seems unlikely they'll record their first W of the jaunt tonight, in a national TNT broadcast doomed to be a snooze session.

Per Chris Haynes of Bleacher Report, Davis will miss his second straight bout with a bilateral Achilles tendinopathy and left hip spasm, while James will sit out with a left ankle peroneal tendinopathy.

With point guard Gabe Vincent (left knee effusion surgery) and small forward Cam Reddish (right ankle sprain) already sidelined, that means Los Angeles will be without four rotation pieces heading into a road matchup against an already-favored elite Celtics club. Among Boston rotation players, only backup center Luke Kornet is on the team's latest injury report, though he is merely questionable with a left hamstring strain.

It will be fascinating to see how Los Angeles head coach Darvin Ham adjusts his rotations and his starting five tonight. I assume Rui Hachimura, who has frequently moonlit for James of late, will earn the nod at power forward. Raw backup center Jaxson Hayes, who's been in and out of the Lakers' rotation this season, earned the start over Davis during the team's 138-122 blowout loss to the Atlanta Hawks Tuesday.