jonathanisaacisgoat | Magic

824 | 13 hours ago

Okay I no longer believe these are flukes

NotTheMamba | Lakers

395 | 13 hours ago

They’re not lol. It happens every fucking week 😂

ThomasFurke | Lakers

38 | 11 hours ago

There needs to be a wikipedia page about it

Greenwalrus72 | Nuggets

21 | 10 hours ago

Damn why ain’t you guys heal Jokic

kaygeeboo | Lakers

10 | 9 hours ago

TBF I think Jamaal hates LA more than Jokic so if Murray were injured he’d definitely rush back at a Lakers matchup

BKNas

265 | 13 hours ago

Los Angeles Healers

LetgomyEkko

77 | 13 hours ago

Start sending all the kids at St. Jude’s up against the Lakers…

preptime | Trail Blazers

17 | 11 hours ago

Lakers wouldn’t be able to D up on them either.

lebryjamy | Lakers

140 | 12 hours ago

Herb Jones last 16 games - X, X, X, X, X, X, X, LAKERS GAME 7, X, X, X, X, X, X, X, X

IIRC Norm Powell pulled the same stunt last year

Tekshi- | Lakers

35 | 12 hours ago

Norman Powell’s situation was a bit different: he missed 3 weeks, came back, and then went to the locker room in the first quarter (or really early in the 2nd quarter), and then missed the next 2 weeks.

Herb played a full game, no minutes restriction (35 minutes), seemingly without any setbacks, and then proceeded to miss the next 2 weeks anyways.

Still comes up as missing a bunch of games, play vs Lakers, and then miss the next bunch. But Powell you can point to him leaving really early as “yeah he came back too hastily and it unfortunately led to another injury”. Herbs’ just looks funky with him playing 35 minutes after missing 2 weeks, into missing 2 more weeks.

Magnus-Methelson-m3

4 | 10 hours ago

That’s actually fucking insane

Musa_2050 | Lakers

21 | 12 hours ago

Shits been happening for years

trimble197

16 | 12 hours ago

A player admitted this last season, i think

RufusPFunkerdale | Lakers

1 | 4 hours ago

This has been going on since I first started watching back in 2010. Even happened during our tanking years, its wild.

LongTimesGoodTimes

499 | 13 hours ago

Classic

This-Top-8691

298 | 13 hours ago

😂This entire thread has me in tears everybody is starting think the lakers fans aren’t crazy anymore.

schadkehnfreude | Lakers

202 | 13 hours ago

Oh we are crazy but not about this.

You know how Lazarus in the Bible came back from the dead? He was a reserve forward for Jerusalem’s basketball team which was slated to play an exhibition against Lakers and he came back from the dead in time for the game.

retrospects | Minneapolis Lakers

21 | 12 hours ago

Probably the least crazy thing tbh. 😂

Hyderabadi__Biryani | Minneapolis Lakers

2 | 4 hours ago

Ikr! Left knee contusion doesn’t exist against the Gold and Purple. We all Lakers fans should get a collective Nobel Prize in Medicine for this hypothesis.

TimeDielation

31 | 13 hours ago

Why wouldn’t he want to get free buckets against the leagues worst d

BearShark8 | Lakers

24 | 12 hours ago

I feel like he shoots 80% against the Lakers every game

cletoreyes01 | Heat

4 | 12 hours ago

Hmm gee I wonder why the guy who marketed himself as the antithesis of lebron where MJ fans can vicariously live through him brings his A+ game against the lakers

DamnImAss

2 | 12 hours ago

Dick?

Ilikesporks_ | Lakers

462 | 13 hours ago

dr lakers is here to treat your injury

No-Salary5449

46 | 13 hours ago

LeJesus

dmavs11 | NBA

410 | 13 hours ago

Honestly we gotta apologize to Lakers fans, this is just an objective truth that players always come back to play them at this point

Ok_Daikon_7726 | Lakers

100 | 13 hours ago

Exactly, this is why the league gifts us everything. It’s repayment for never having stars sit against us /s

username10400

4 | 6 hours ago

Realistically I would imagine that the league/owners urge teams to not sit or rest players against the Lakers when possible. The Lakers are the league’s biggest product, it makes sense for all parties involved to circle those games as far as not missing those games

fignewtonattack | Knicks

14 | 12 hours ago

People do this with us and the Garden.

Lmao1903 | NBA

1 | 5 hours ago

It’s natural, not to this extent but I feel like I’d be more hyped to play in a game with a lot more eyeballs, than like against the Pels. Because you know no one’s gonna watch a Clippers-Pels game

Candid-Boss6534 | POR

3 | 6 hours ago

i’m pretty sure players have admitted this. it’s always a spotlight game.

Radalek | Nuggets

1 | 10 hours ago

Well Jonas came back tonight and fixed our rebounding issues (having an actual C helps with that lol) instead of 2 days earlier against Lakers…Shame cause I think we win that one too with him even with Jokic and 2 more starters out.

NightSleepStars | Lakers

361 | 13 hours ago

pretends to be shocked

iRockaflame | NBA

264 | 13 hours ago

I remember thinking Lakers fans always saying some bs

Then I remember Colin Sexton being active after being out for weeks for the Lakers game and then never playing again the rest of the season lmao

BigTonkaTroy | Lakers

226 | 13 hours ago

Just go look at herb jones didn’t play for 2 weeks plays against the lakers and hasn’t played since which was the 7th of January lol.

Relatively_Cool | Lakers

177 | 13 hours ago

Mind you he played 35 minutes that game too lol

LividDay7500

30 | 13 hours ago

Seems pretty odd considering his season average is 22 and his average for the 5 previous games was only 20.

dmavs11 | NBA

89 | 13 hours ago

Herb Jones has something similar this year too lol. Came back for one game and injured right after.

claydavisismyhero | Lakers

20 | 13 hours ago

that was a danny ainge thing. he stops the tank for the lakers

trimble197

15 | 12 hours ago

Mark Williams last season too. He made damn sure he wasn’t gonna miss that Lakers game

Stepsis24 | Lakers

9 | 12 hours ago

That one’s understandable

DontFollowMyAdvices

31 | 13 hours ago

r/nba says its not true tho

Shadoken-TYPE0 | Canada

259 | 13 hours ago

Lakers match-up do miracles against injured players

Aliboomayuh

78 | 13 hours ago

COMPLETELY HEALED

suckerpunch085 | Lakers

3 | 12 hours ago

What injury?

iamjeseus | Knicks

254 | 13 hours ago

Bro it’s funny every time

LilBradXD | Charlotte Bobcats

34 | 12 hours ago

happens to yall too lmao

Mood_Academic | Lakers

189 | 13 hours ago

lol of course he was gonna return for the Lakers. Everyone always returns for the Lakers

Herb Jones missed 7 games prior to playing LA, played 34 min against them…. Hasn’t played since

abc4357 | Lakers

90 | 13 hours ago

Kawhi will probably be out for a couple of weeks after today

AshenSacrifice | Clippers

-21 | 13 hours ago

Rebuke 🙅🏾‍♂️

AshenSacrifice | Clippers

-52 | 13 hours ago

Or because the game is in LA where he was sent back to, to wait for the next LA game

OverallGeneral7129 | Cavaliers

48 | 13 hours ago

I’ll be honest dude, players returning only against the Lakers is like a real stat. Like the prime example is Herb Jones was out for two weeks, played 34 minutes against the Lakers, didn’t experience any other kind of injury, and then didn’t play for the rest of the month

Harleytk24 | Lakers

114 | 13 hours ago

Of course he is

Past-Ad7339 | Mavericks

54 | 13 hours ago

like clockwork lmfao

Frodounchainedd | Lakers

40 | 13 hours ago

lol

Several_Hour_347

38 | 13 hours ago

Lmao of course

iPcFc

38 | 13 hours ago

Every motherfucking time someone is injured, they magically come back as healthy once they played the Lakers then gets re-injured again after.

JettS117 | Lakers

37 | 13 hours ago

if you genuinely still dont believe it just look up Herb Jones recent games

CitrusA | Canada

34 | 13 hours ago

Steve Ballmer threatened Kawhi’s tree money if he doesn’t play against the Lakers

JayDee62 | LAL

30 | 13 hours ago

surprise, surprise

LumpySpaceGunter | Warriors

18 | 13 hours ago

Kawhi Leonard will return in Avengers Doomsday.

Bamboozled101 | Lakers

13 | 13 hours ago

Like clockwork

redpancab | Lakers

14 | 13 hours ago

Of course he is. We’re everyone’s Finals

SwizzGod | Lakers

12 | 13 hours ago

Shocker

McKnightmare24 | Lakers

12 | 13 hours ago

Of course he will, because everyone returns to face the Lakers. They could be out a month, return for the Lakers then be out another Month. We heal all wounds and injuries but our own.

GeorgeLichen | Lakers

12 | 13 hours ago

Against the Lakers? WHAAAAT

Nxc06 | MIN

11 | 13 hours ago

Did he finish planting those trees already?

bbaIla | Lakers

12 | 13 hours ago

I know us Lakers fans can be bitchy about a lot of shit. This isn’t one of them. I swear this has happened like 3 or 4 times with Kawhi alone as a Clipper.

ReasonableMusic350

1 | 9 hours ago

Kawhi takes games off before playing the Lakers.

RunDatTriangle | Lakers

5 | 13 hours ago

Shhh nah it’s all in our heads

steeepphheeen

5 | 13 hours ago

It’s the clippers Super Bowl tonight they’re going all in

Diortheking | NBA

4 | 13 hours ago

Lmao just giving laker fans ammo

Optimal-Kitchen6308

4 | 13 hours ago

his dark money must have come through

anliony

3 | 13 hours ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/NBATalk/s/RrBM9pCt1F

Called it.

Spaghettibeach | Lakers

6 | 13 hours ago

you might as well have called water wet

Complete_Chocolate_2 | Clippers

3 | 13 hours ago

Omg is a miracle!!

RiversofJell0 | Lakers

3 | 13 hours ago

Fans of other teams hate Lakers but gotta admit it’s nice they get to watch their best players actually play when the Lakers are on the schedule. Other teams who haven’t won crap great the Lakers like it’s their championship game

merriweather_pp

3 | 13 hours ago

Lakers truly have the hardest road, playing them is everyone’s Finals, etc etc

LividDay7500

3 | 13 hours ago

If you are a make a wish candidate and you have one shot, just ask to play the lakers and science will come to your aid

siggyjack | Nuggets Bandwagon

3 | 12 hours ago

People be getting up like the Undertaker vs the Lakers lmao

w33b2 | NBA

3 | 11 hours ago

Ight, Lakers fans might be right lmao

platinumgriffin107v2

2 | 13 hours ago

of course he is!!

donivantrip

2 | 13 hours ago

the ole Los Angles are Acute

bermitthefrog | Lakers

2 | 13 hours ago

Well well well

BbyRodney99

2 | 13 hours ago

Lol like clock work. Dudes ALWAYS suit up against the Lakers. Also play like it’s game 7 in the Finals against them especially when the Lakers are Home. Shit is crazy.

Valuable-Reading-154

2 | 13 hours ago

He’s gonna kill the Lakers then announce a season ending injury lmfao

coldtrashpanda

2 | 12 hours ago

Yo can the make -a-wish foundation get a sick kid a ten-day on a team that’s playing the Lakers? We gotta leverage these miraculous recoveries for good

EthanHuntBroMichael | LAC

1 | 13 hours ago

69 Point 5x5 incoming

CoachDT | CHI

1 | 13 hours ago

Kawhi think he slick, dude just wants to pad them stats.

kyleyle | Raptors

1 | 13 hours ago

The robot has woken from his slumber

Adraf45 | Heat

1 | 13 hours ago

Unstoppable force vs immovable object

emielaen77

1 | 13 hours ago

Jesus would resurrect to play the Lakers.

itsnotlikeyou | Hawks

1 | 12 hours ago

Even the dead would rise were they to play the Lakers

-jide- | Lakers

1 | 12 hours ago

Go figure

Yellow_blackjack

1 | 12 hours ago

Classic

TheRancid_Baboon

1 | 12 hours ago

Maybe Jimmy heals up for the Lakers game

tylerjhoole

1 | 12 hours ago

Been a lakers fan since the 90s & this somehow still shocks me lmao it ALWAYS HAPPENS

14MySterY-

1 | 11 hours ago

Of course 🤣

teenagetwat | Spurs

1 | 11 hours ago

COMPLETELY HEALED

D4dbod

1 | 10 hours ago

Sign up the niners to play the lakers

Human-Veterinarian61 | Clippers

-5 | 13 hours ago

Lakers are cooked

[Haynes] Los Angles Clippers star Kawhi Leonard (knee contusion) will return tonight against the Los Angeles Lakers, league sources tell me.