Lakers News: D'Angelo Russell Departs Rockets Game For Good With Sore Left Foot
Los Angeles Lakers starting point guard D'Angelo Russell has exited today's ongoing game against the Houston Rockets due to a sore left foot, and has been ruled out for the rest of the night, reports Jovan Buha of The Athletic.
Buha notes that his backup Dennis Schröder, who did start for the Lakers for most of the season until the team upgraded the position with D-Lo two months ago, will undertake starting duties against his old team for the second half.
Across 14:40 for the game's first half, Russell had scored six points on 2-of-4 shooting from the field (all his shots and attempts were three-pointers), dished out four dimes, and pulled down three rebounds. LA currently leads 70-60 at the break.
Just a few weeks after rejoining the team that draft him second overall out of OSU in 2015, Russell missed six games after rolling his right ankle against the Golden State Warriors. More recently, he sat out two games with a sore right hip. This left ankle ailment, as far as we know, is a new injury.
Against Houston, Schröder is a more-than-capable lead guard. But should Russell's injury linger into the postseason, it could represent a massive blow for the team's aspirations to play spoiler against some of the West's top seeds.
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