Luka Doncic's Back is Questionable After Carrying the Lakers' Offense
Underdog NBA reported Doncic is listed as questionable for Sunday with a back injury.
is officially listed as questionable for Sunday with a back issue, which is the least surprising news of the weekend considering he is currently carrying the entire offense. Underdog NBA relayed the injury report, and frankly, it is a miracle the man is upright at all.
The numbers Doncic is putting up right now are completely detached from reality. He is leading the league with an absurd 40.1 points per game and a 40.6 percent usage rate. He just dropped 53 points on the in a 124-118 win. When you are hauling that much offensive luggage every single night, your back is eventually going to ask for a day off.
Seeing Luka on the injury report is basically a scheduled programming event at this point. His injury history reads like a CVS receipt of ailments, bouncing from calves to hamstrings to ankles and now the back. Yet, he still manages to keep the Lakers sitting at the top of the Western Conference with an 8-2 record.
For anyone holding a ticket on futures or sweating a daily fantasy lineup, a questionable tag on a Sunday is pure agony. You are left refreshing your phone until 90 minutes before tip-off, wondering if the offense is going to run through a generational talent or devolve into a chaotic scramble drill. The betting lines will be frozen in purgatory until we get a real update.
Keep an eye on the pregame warmups. If Luka sits, the ' offensive rating is going to look like a typo. If he plays, expect him to somehow drop a casual 35-point triple-double while wincing every time he has to run back on defense.