The New Orleans Pelicans received some bad news on Tuesday night during their game against the Portland Trail Blazers. About midway through the first quarter, Anthony Davis suffered a knee injury while setting a screen on Damian Lillard that caused him to leave the game and head back into the locker room.
While it looked like a pretty standard screen, Lillard’s knee and Davis’ knee bumped into one another. It wasn’t anything malicious, but it was bad enough that it caused Davis some discomfort.
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After this happened, Davis went into the locker room and was ruled out for the remainder of the game. According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, Davis will need to get an MRI on his knee to figure out what happened.
New Orleans' Anthony Davis is undergoing an MRI on his left knee in Portland, league source tells ESPN. He bumped knees with Harkless.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) October 25, 2017
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Hopefully this ends up being the type of thing that Davis can recover from pretty quickly, as he came into Tuesday’s game averaging 31.7 points and 16.7 rebounds per game on 53.5 percent shooting from the field and 45.5 percent shooting from three. Those numbers are difficult to sustain over the course of an entire season, obviously, but Davis really has looked fantastic this year alongside DeMarcus Cousins and it would be a shame if this caused him to be sidelined for an extended period of time.
