Lakers’ Anthony Davis out of Game 5 vs. Suns with groin injury

Los Angeles Lakers forward Anthony Davis. (Mark J. Terrill/AP)

Los Angeles Lakers forward Anthony Davis is officially out of Game 5 in his team’s playoff series against the Phoenix Suns.

Markieff Morris is expected to start the game in Davis’s place.

Davis left Game 4 in the second quarter after sustaining a left-groin injury and was eventually ruled out of the remainder of that contest, which the Suns won to tie up the series at two games apiece.

The 28-year-old is averaging 21.8 points, eight rebounds and three assists through the first four games of the series.

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