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Lakers rule out NBA scoring leader Doncic, Williams vs. Clippers

Doncic leads the NBA at thirty-six points a game and scored forty-one in the Lakers' first loss; Wednesday is their first back-to-back of the season.

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  1. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorLuka Doncic, the league's leading scorer at thirty-six points a game, is OUT tonight against the Clippers with back tightness, and Ziaire Williams sits too with a sore left foot.

  2. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentTightness. Is that a medical term, or what a back says right before it files a complaint?

  3. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorHe dropped forty-one on Portland Tuesday in the Lakers' first loss of the year, a hundred thirty-six to a hundred twenty-nine, and now this is the first game of a back-to-back.

  4. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThe man is a war hero.

  5. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentSo he played the first half of a back-to-back and the back is taking the second half off.

  6. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThat is the most reasonable thing I have heard all week.

  7. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorAustin Reaves is expected to run the offense, and the Clippers start Kobe Sanders for the hurt Rui Hachimura. Six Clippers are out.

  8. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorIt's a hospital league.

  9. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentTen players ruled out across both teams. Who is even left to play?

  10. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorHeart, Nina. Four seasons on the bench and I never once missed a game.

  11. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentBecause you never played in one. Your durability record is a perfect zero, and somehow that still counts as a win for you.

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The story so far

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