The Los Angeles Lakers have been without their key offseason acquisition, Marcus Smart.

Lately, Smart is dealing with a back-related setback, which has forced him to miss consecutive games at this point.

Before the Lakers and the Phoenix Suns tipped off on Monday night, Lakers head coach JJ Redick explained what happened to Smart, and detailed the state of his injury.

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“He was feeling a little tightness, I guess it was three games ago now,” Redick told reporters. “Before the game, played through it, tightened up after, and was really tight the next day—the day before Thanksgiving.”

The head coach confirmed that Smart had an MRI done to confirm the severity of the setback. Fortunately for the Lakers, everything came back

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