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Los Angeles stars LeBron James and Anthony Davis were both ruled out of Monday's game against the Brooklyn Nets, the Lakers announced on Sunday, ...

Davis is resting with a right foot stress injury after playing in the Lakers' past two games. [Kareem Abdul-Jabbar](https://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/4145/kareem-abdul-jabbar) for No. [LeBron James](https://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/1966/lebron-james) and [Anthony Davis](https://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/6583/anthony-davis) were both ruled out of Monday's game against the [Brooklyn Nets](/nba/team/_/name/bkn/brooklyn-nets), the [Los Angeles Lakers](/nba/team/_/name/lal/los-angeles-lakers) announced Sunday.

The Los Angeles Lakers aren't getting along with NBA officials this season. Los Angeles ranks third in the league in restricted area field goal attempts, ...

"It's bullshit," Davis [said](https://twitter.com/jovanbuha/status/1619558445459570688). [said](https://twitter.com/i/lists/1049905405911023617). [Los Angeles Clippers](https://www.cbssports.com/nba/teams/LAC/los-angeles-clippers/) currently hold the No. 12 double overtime loss to the [Mavericks](https://www.cbssports.com/nba/teams/DAL/dallas-mavericks/) -- the game in which [Troy Brown Jr](/nba/players/2938055/troy-brown-jr/). [Jaylen Brown](/nba/players/2202365/jaylen-brown/) made a layup that cut the Lakers' lead to one. [Jayson Tatum](/nba/players/2268018/jayson-tatum/) clearly whacks him on the arm. [Los Angeles Lakers](https://www.cbssports.com/nba/teams/LAL/los-angeles-lakers/) aren't getting along with [NBA](/nba/) officials this season. [was seemingly fouled](https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/lakers-mavericks-both-gripe-about-officiating-in-controversial-double-overtime-slugfest/) on a game-winning 3-point attempt, but did not get a whistle -- once again, the Lakers are defeated because of a bad missed call. Between the fourth quarter and overtime, he somehow got his hands on a camera and perhaps was trying to show it to Lewis. The crew missed the play." Seemingly out of nowhere, [Patrick Beverley](/nba/players/1685200/patrick-beverley/) was called for one of the latest fouls you'll ever see. And against the [Celtics](https://www.cbssports.com/nba/teams/BOS/boston-celtics/) Saturday night in Boston, the situation hit a new low.

After a controversial loss to Boston, Lakers announce LeBron James and Anthony Davis will miss game against the Brooklyn Nets on Monday with injuries.

The refs were bad. Lonnie Walker IV (left knee tendinitis) is listed as probable. … Bron gets smacked across the arm” and the officials don’t call a foul. “Like everyone else, referees make mistakes,” the union wrote on Twitter. James had made five of six free throws to that point in the game. “We made one at the end of last night’s game and that is gut-wrenching for us.

Los Angeles Lakers stars LeBron James and Anthony Davis will miss Monday night's game against the Nets in Brooklyn.

Davis missed 20 games with the foot injury before returning Wednesday to play in the Lakers’ 113-104 win against the San Antonio Spurs. [‘We got cheated’: Lakers fume over missed foul call in loss to Celtics](https://sports.inquirer.net/495208/we-got-cheated-lakers-fume-over-missed-foul-call-in-loss-to-celtics) [NBA head referee admits missed call in Lakers-Celtics game](https://sports.inquirer.net/495202/nba-head-referee-admits-missed-call-in-lakers-celtics-game) [125-121 overtime loss to the Boston Celtics](https://sports.inquirer.net/495033/jaylen-browns-ot-surge-lifts-celtics-over-lakers) on Saturday.

The Los Angeles Lakers will be without their two superstars when they play the Brooklyn Nets on Monday.

7 against the Oklahoma City Thunder. [Los Angeles Lakers](/basketball/nba/teams/los-angeles-lakers/) will be without their two superstars when they play the Brooklyn Nets on Monday. 16 against the Denver Nuggets.

The NBA office also confirmed for the second time that a foul should have been called. “Like everyone else, referees make mistakes,” the union wrote in its ...

The crew missed the play,” crew chief Eric Lewis told a pool reporter — and reaffirmed that Sunday in the report detailing calls made and missed in the final two minutes of regulation and overtime. Injuries are the reason; James has left ankle soreness and Davis continues to deal with a right foot stress injury. But the Lakers have also spent virtually the entire season on the outside of the playoff picture. James laid the ball up with his left hand, Tatum clearly made contact with James’ shooting arm, no foul was called and the game went to overtime. James got the ball about 35 feet from the basket, with 4.1 seconds remaining in what was a tied game at Boston on Saturday night. “Like everyone else, referees make mistakes,” the union wrote in its tweet.

Jaylen Brown scored 37 points, completing a tying three-point play with 4.1 seconds left in regulation and adding 11 more in overtime as the NBA-leading ...

… Brown picked up his fifth foul on the first possession of the fourth quarter. The Lakers had a chance to win it in regulation, and James drove to the basket. Beverly hit a 3-pointer to give the Lakers the lead with 52 seconds left and then, after Boston tied it, scored on a putback dunk that made it 104-102 with 19 seconds to play. An enraged James gesticulated wildly, and Beverly picked up a technical foul in the ensuing hubbub. But they were out-shouted by the locals when Tatum, who scored 15 in the third, including three 3-pointers, helped erase an 11-point deficit. Patrick Beverly had 15 points, twice giving the Lakers the lead in the final minute of the fourth.

This call was bad even the officials admitted they got it wrong after the game.

The Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics added another chapter to their historic rivalry, only this time, the referees were heavily involved... as well as ...

"There was contact," referee Eric Lewis said in a pool report after the game. "The best player on earth can't get a call. Before overtime tipped off, the veteran took a camera from someone on the sidelines and showed it to referee Eric Lewis in hopes of proving he missed the call. "And for it to fall on someone else's judgement, or non-judgement, it's ridiculous." The four-time MVP, who is no stranger to dramatics on the court, even fell to his knees in response to what he believed was a missed call. The crew missed the play."

The Lakers said Davis will be out with a right foot stress injury, while James will sit with left ankle soreness. The Nets matchup is the first game of a back- ...

It would be a fitting scenario for James to pass Abdul-Jabbar's record against the team that drafted Kareem back in 1969. [Boston Celtics](https://www.cbssports.com/nba/teams/BOS/boston-celtics/) Saturday night, in which a no-call foul at the end of regulation [left the Lakers furious](https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/lakers-lebron-james-stunned-after-not-getting-game-altering-foul-vs-celtics-league-confirms-missed-call/) with the officials, the team [announced](https://official.nba.com/nba-injury-report-2022-23-season/) that [LeBron James](/nba/players/400553/lebron-james/) and [Anthony Davis](/nba/players/1992786/anthony-davis/) would sit out of Monday's game against the [Brooklyn Nets](https://www.cbssports.com/nba/teams/BKN/brooklyn-nets/). The Nets matchup is the first game of a back-to-back for the Lakers, which concludes with a primetime matchup against the [New York Knicks](https://www.cbssports.com/nba/teams/NY/new-york-knicks/) on Tuesday at Madison Square Garden. James is just 117 points away from becoming the league's all-time leading scorer, and right now he's on track to This shouldn't be viewed as anything other than a rest day for both stars after a hard-fought matchup against the Celtics over the weekend. For it to come against one of the league's top teams, during a nationally televised contest would just be icing on the cake.