Lakers Injury News: LeBron James Status Updates For Thursday’s Game Against The Bucks

Will LA's best player be available tonight?

Tonight, your post-trade deadline Los Angeles Lakers will be woefully shorthanded against the visiting Milwaukee Bucks.

It appears that they'll also be without their best player, ageless 19-time All-Star power forward LeBron James. Mike Trudell of Lakers.com reports that James will sit with that pesky left ankle soreness that he appeared to tweak during Tuesday's game.

Star LA center Anthony Davis has been listed on the NBA's latest injury report as probable to play. AD he continues to recuperate from a clearly-lingering right foot stress injury.

Playing against one of the best teams in the Western Conference, with James out, and oodles of new Lakers incoming and former Lakers outgoing, LA appears more or less doomed to lose this evening. Today's newest Lakers, Davon Reed and Mo Bamba, will not clear their physicals in time for the game's 7 p.m. tipoff. We have yet to receive word on the availability of the three other new players Los Angeles added yesterday: D'Angelo Russell, Malik Beasley and Jarred Vanderbilt. But stay glued to All Lakers for the latest intel on that triumvirate.

The Bucks did make a few, more minor rotational changes at the deadline, but the team's only meaningful new addition is combo forward Jae Crowder, added today in a deadline deal. He will not be with Milwaukee tonight.

Among the Bucks' main roster pieces, the best basketball player in the world, Milwaukee All-NBA forward Giannis Antetokounmpo, has been listed as merely probable for tonight while he deals with a sore knee. Veteran forward Joe Ingles is out as he continues to manage his surgically-repaired left knee. All-Defensive center Brook Lopez is probable with a non-coronavirus illness. The Bucks' third big, Bobby Portis, remains out with a right MCL sprain.