Anthony Davis suffered an eye injury Sunday and had to leave the Los Angeles Lakers’ game against the Toronto Raptors at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, Calif.
The Lakers trailed the Raptors 73-70 in the third quarter when Davis got a huge block contesting a Jakob Poeltl dunk attempt. Poeltl accidentally raked Davis in the left eye with his off-hand while trying to ward off the Lakers star.
Davis appeared to be in serious pain as medical personnel attended to him along the baseline.
The Lakers big man was later ruled out of the game. He left the contest with 22 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists, and 2 blocks on 6/8 shooting. The purple and gold were able to rally without Davis to beat the Raptors 123-103.
Davis is no stranger to eye injuries. Last season, the Lakers star suffered a corneal abrasion on the same eye. Davis described it as feeling like his eye was “torn open.”
Anthony Davis with the HUGE block
But gets hit in the eye in the process and is down in pain pic.twitter.com/LPgccXjDm7
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Losing Davis for an extended period would be a tough blow for a Lakers squad already dealing with some growing pains under new head coach JJ Redick.
Davis entered Sunday’s contest as the NBA’s scoring leader averaging 32.4 points to go along 11.3 rebounds, 2.3 assists, and 2.0 blocks per game.
