J.D.

The only good thing for the Lakers is that they're not in the play-in tournament, so they get an extra week.

Yep.

for Luka to heal before he would need to come back for a first round series.

So yeah, the timing, I mean, we talked about how bad of the timing was for Cade Cunningham getting injured.

That was like a couple of weeks ago at this point, the second to last week of the season when you're gearing up for the playoffs and the Lakers have been playing great, got smacked last night, but have been playing really well.

in March.

Bad start to April after a great month for them.

Yeah.

His 64th game of the season.

That's what Luca was playing in last night.

Everybody knows you got to play 65 to hit the threshold.

Lakers have five games remaining.

There is an exception for players who reach 62 games and play at least 85% of their team's games at the time of the season ending injury.

but that would not apply to Luka.

He's played in 64 of the Lakers' 77 games, which is 83%.

And if it's considered a season-ending injury, it means he can't play before...

May 31st or something like that.

So I was like, I didn't even know there was a loophole to the loophole.

But that's what you find out when a guy gets hurt this late in the season and the games played requirement is a thing.

And you said already he missed four games earlier this season with that pesky left hamstring injury.