Lakers Get Rare Injury News Ahead of Matchup With Pelicans

After going through a rough stretch last week, the Los Angeles Lakers have seemingly gotten back on track for the time being, winning two games in a row in convincing fashion, crushing the Golden State Warriors and Sacramento Kings in consecutive games over the weekend.

JJ Redick's squad will try to keep up this much-needed momentum on Tuesday night when the team will go head-to-head against Zion Williamson and the visiting New Orleans Pelicans

Lakers Will Be at Full Strength Against Pelicans

Everyone is available for the Lakers tomorrow against the visiting Pelicans: pic.twitter.com/Mkh4TzLNfY
— Ryan Ward (@RyanWardLA) March 3, 2026

Throughout the 2025-26 NBA season, the Lakers have dealt with injury after injury to some of their key players, with stars LeBron James, Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves all spending time in street clothes on the bench during different times.

Fortunately, as the Lakers head into the final 22 regular-season games, Los Angeles are healthy and looking to move up the Western Conference standings in hopes of clinching one of the higher seeds.

Following Tuesday's game against the Pelicans, who have one of the worst records in the league coming into this matchup at 19-43, the Lakers will head into a brutal stretch of their regular-season schedule, facing some of the elite teams in the NBA for the rest of the month of March.

The challenging stretch begins on Thursday, with the Lakers traveling to the Mile High City to take on Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets at Ball Arena. Even though Doncic and company got the best of the Nuggets in Denver back in January, this is always a tough matchup for JJ Redick's squad, which will likely be the case once again later this week.

After Thursday's game in Denver, things won't get any easier for the Lakers, as they'll face the New York Knicks, Minnesota Timberwolves, Nuggets (in Los Angeles), Houston Rockets (twice), Orlando Magic, Detroit Pistons and Cleveland Cavaliers the rest of the way in March.

As if the rest of March won't be challenging enough for the Lakers, they'll face the defending NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder twice in the final weeks of the 2025-26 campaign in April.

There will be no margin for error for this Lakers team moving forward, as they'll be challenge day after day against some of the best teams in the league before heading into the NBA playoffs, where there's a real possiblity of Los Angeles falling to the Play-In Tournament.

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