Lakers’ Luke Walton Continues to Recover from Back Injury

Lakers’ Luke Walton is back at practice after taking one-and-a-half weeks off due to  a back injury, and told the Los Angeles Times that he lost stamina but is anxious to get back on the court whenever Lakers Coach Phil Jackson will let him. Said Walton at practice Wednesday (Oct. 21), “I lost some of my stamina that I had built up in the first couple of weeks, but that’ll come back. Having to shut it down pretty much completely for a week made the legs get a little heavy.”

This isn’t the first time Walton has sustained an injury during the Lakers’ training camp (he has also had issues with his ankle and hamstring). Jackson told the Times, “His injury was somewhat of a fluke. That kind of thing happens to him. None of them have really been contact issues. They’ve been [from] running, [an] ankle, pulling up [a] hamstring. This one was the back. So we’re not too worried about this taking him out of rhythm.” Walton did not play in last night’s exhibition game against the Denver Nuggets at Anaheim’s Honda Center but may play tonight when the Lakers face off against the Nuggets again in Walton’s San Diego hometown.

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Posted in General on October 23, 2009

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