Los Angeles Lakers’ big man Maxi Kleber has been sidelined for the regular season with an oblique strain and is set to be re-evaluated within the next week.

The setback is the third in a string of injuries for the German international, who missed over three months last season with a foot fracture and then dealt with a quadriceps injury in the preseason prior to picking up this oblique strain.

Let’s take a closer look at the oblique injury and then delve into why he might be picking up successive injuries.

The oblique refers to a group of muscles on the sides of the torso from the rib cage to the hips. They’re part of the “core” that you’ve probably heard so much about and are responsible for rotation and stabilization. There are actually two different subsets of the muscle, the “externa

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