{"id":17744,"date":"2022-12-17T14:38:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T14:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/anthony-davis-exits-early-in-lakers-win-over-nuggets-nba-blog-nba-basketball-blog\/"},"modified":"2022-12-17T14:38:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T14:38:17","slug":"anthony-davis-exits-early-in-lakers-win-over-nuggets-nba-blog-nba-basketball-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/anthony-davis-exits-early-in-lakers-win-over-nuggets-nba-blog-nba-basketball-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Davis exits early in Lakers win over Nuggets \u2013 NBA Blog \u2013 NBA Basketball Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Via the OC Register:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nThe start of the second half featured a concerning moment for Lakers fans everywhere: Anthony Davis didn\u2019t come back out on the court.<\/p>\n<p>Teammates, coaches and team officials have tied the success of the franchise to Davis\u2019 high performance and good health \u2013 which has been seen too infrequently over the past two years. Davis sitting out the second half Friday night against the Denver Nuggets with a right foot injury struck as an ill omen.<\/p>\n<p>Except something funny happened: It didn\u2019t slow down the Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>LeBron James and Russell Westbrook, the two stars who have often seemed like a clunky on-court fit, powered a surprising 126-108 victory against the Nuggets, the third-place team in the Western Conference. After two disappointing overtime losses in their previous three games against high-level opponents, the Lakers (12-16) came out hungry and hustling, in spite of a size advantage that never really became an issue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>FULL ARTICLE<\/p>\n<div class=\"author-info\">\n<div class=\"author-avatar\">\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-avatar --><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-description\">\n<h2 class=\"author-title\"><span class=\"author-heading\">Author:<\/span> Inside Hoops<\/h2>\n<p class=\"author-bio\">\n\t\t\tInsideHoops.com has been a world leader in NBA basketball coverage for over 20 years. Read our blog, but also be sure to read our main website on www.insidehoops.com\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehoops.com\/blog\/?author=2\" rel=\"author\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tView all posts by Inside Hoops\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p><!-- .author-bio -->\n\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-description -->\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-info -->\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the OC Register: The start of the second half featured a concerning moment for Lakers fans everywhere: Anthony Davis didn\u2019t come back out on the court. Teammates, coaches and team officials have tied the success of the franchise to Davis\u2019 high performance and good health \u2013 which has been seen too infrequently over the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[565,255,931,542,2589,206,590],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17746,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17744\/revisions\/17746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}