Los Angeles Lakers forward Anthony Davis left Saturday’s game against the Golden State Warriors with a corneal abrasion. And although any eye injury is an obvious concern, Davis’s ailment sounds nothing short of miserable.
Davis suited up roughly 48 hours later and put together a solid game in a win over the Atlanta Hawks. But his detailed description of precisely how the eye injury is affecting him reveals it’s a impressive he played at all Monday night.
“I just couldn’t see,” Davis told reporters after Monday’s game. “It’s right in the middle of my eye. It wasn’t off to the side, so anytime I’d look, it was just blurry. My eye was swollen. I thought my eye was open, but it wasn’t. It kept watering.
“… It was just better closed. I couldn’t really see,” Davis added.
Anthony Davis details his corneal abrasion, which sounded pretty gnarly: “[It] was actually right in the middle of my eye … I thought my eye was like, [torn] open” pic.twitter.com/MFOwGncQGd
— Dave McMenamin (@mcten) March 19, 2024
The Lakers big man went on to explain that the eye started to feel better later Saturday night, and his vision came back. Somehow, Davis managed to score 22 points on 10-of-14 shooting with 15 rebounds in the win over Atlanta on Monday.
