The Los Angeles Lakers are expected to get a frontline boost after their current four-game trip that winds up in Milwaukee on Thursday, March 13, and in Denver on Friday, March 14, in a grueling back-to-back schedule against the East’s No.

Guard Austin Reaves left Friday's game early with calf soreness, and forward Rui Hachimura sat out due to a left knee injury he sustained in Thursday's win over the Minnesota Timberwolves. Hachimura's injury was initially called a knee strain.

The Los Angeles Lakers have recently been one of the top teams in the NBA. Over the past month and a half in 25 games, they have a 20-5 record and rank sixth in offensive rating and first in defensive rating.

The Los Angeles Lakers are dealing with a list of injuries to some of their key players as they go down the stretch of the season, and many are looking for updates. Rui Hachimura suffered a knee injury at the end of February during the third quarter of their game against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Lakers forward Rui Hachimura missed a fifth consecutive game on Saturday due to patellar tendinopathy affecting his left knee, but he’s doing “well,” according to head coach J.J.