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Bill Plaschke: No Anthony Davis? Struggling Lakers have no chance if he's out

It was a forearm to the eye. It was a punch to the gut. It was routine contact on a routine drive. It was an extraordinary symbol of a season skidding. In the final minutes of the first quarter of the Lakers' nationally televised showdown with the Golden State Warriors on Saturday night, Anthony Davis was smacked in the face by the Warriors' Trayce Jackson-Davis. The eye was quickly swollen ...
Trayce Jackson-Davis of the Golden State Warriors pushes Anthony Davis of the Los Angeles Lakers for position during the first half at Crypto.com Arena on Saturday, March 16, 2024, in Los Angeles.

It was a forearm to the eye.

It was a punch to the gut.

It was routine contact on a routine drive.

It was an extraordinary symbol of a season skidding.

In the final minutes of the first quarter of the Lakers' nationally televised showdown with the Golden State Warriors on Saturday night, Anthony Davis was smacked in the face by the Warriors' Trayce Jackson-Davis.

The eye was quickly swollen shut. The Lakers' hopes were instantly impaired.

Davis couldn't see, so the Lakers couldn't win, and now their spring might not survive

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