Milwaukee Bucks Game Preview: Feb. 10 vs Los Angeles Lakers

The Milwaukee Bucks don’t have much time to figure out how to move past Jabari Parker’s injury, thanks to a game against the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night.

The Milwaukee Bucks‘ season went from bad to much, much worse this week, as the team found out that Jabari Parker will miss 12 months because of an ACL tear in his left knee suffered in the Bucks loss to the Miami Heat on Wednesday.

It was pretty easy for Bucks fans to look on the bright side of things this year, even when the team was struggling. After all, with Giannis Antetokounmpo and Jabari around for the long haul, how bad could it really be in Milwaukee?

This injury changes the answer to that question massively. There are lots of long-term impacts to discuss here. Adam McGee did a great job of tackling some of them already, but this piece is more about the very short term–namely, the Bucks game tonight against the Los Angeles Lakers.

With Khris Middleton slowly coming back to Milwaukee’s rotation and Jabari suddenly leaving it, there are lots of questions head coach Jason Kidd will have to answer by Friday night, the most obvious being who will start next to Giannis against the Lakers?

We’ll get there soon when major keys for both the Bucks and Lakers are broken down. After that the most dangerous Laker (in terms of how an effective player is dangerous, not a Metta World Peace kind of danger) will be identified, followed by score predictions for the game.