Anthony Davis Suffers Head Injury, Exits Lakers against Warriors in Game 5

Los Ange­les Lak­ers star Antho­ny Davis left Game 5 against the Gold­en State War­riors on Wednes­day night after acci­den­tal­ly col­lid­ing with Kevon Looney and hit­ting his head mid­way through the fourth quar­ter. The Lak­ers held on to win 121–106 and take a 3–2 series lead, but Davis’ sta­tus for Game 6 on Fri­day is unclear pend­ing fur­ther evaluation.

Accord­ing to Chris Haynes of TNT, Davis is expect­ed to be avail­able to play in the piv­otal Game 6. How­ev­er, Davis appeared dazed after the col­li­sion with Looney and sul­len­ly held his head on the bench before head­ing to the lock­er room. Lak­ers coach Darvin Ham said Davis seemed to avoid a con­cus­sion but declined to pro­vide fur­ther details about the eval­u­a­tions Davis received.

Davis required a wheel­chair to get to the lock­er room fol­low­ing the injury scare but was able to leave the are­na with­out assis­tance after the game. “Obvi­ous­ly every­one saw him take a shot to the head, but we just checked him out, and he seems to be doing pret­ty well already,” Ham said.

Before exit­ing, Davis had 23 points, nine rebounds and three assists for the Lak­ers. Austin Reaves said Davis is “get­ting bet­ter” but that the Lak­ers will be ready to play with or with­out him in Game 6. “Of course, AD is a big part of what we do. I think he’ll play, but if he does­n’t, we’re still a group of NBA bas­ket­ball play­ers that played with­out him this year,” Reaves said.

The injury adds uncer­tain­ty to a series that has swung back and forth. After los­ing the first two games at home, the Lak­ers won Games 3 and 4 to even the series before drop­ping Game 5 on the road. With a vic­to­ry in Game 6, the Lak­ers can advance to the West­ern Con­fer­ence Finals. But with­out Davis, their prospects become far more dubi­ous against the defend­ing cham­pi­on Warriors.

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