Sources: Lakers' Davis (foot) could return in Jan.

LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles Lakers prima Anthony Davis has had a subsiding of symptom successful his close ft accent wounded and is expected to re-evaluate the anticipation of resuming play aft different seven-to-10 days of rest, sources told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski connected Friday.

The Lakers announced connected Friday that Davis remains retired with a "stress injury," but sources said that determination remains anticipation that Davis tin debar country connected the accent wounded and could beryllium successful presumption to resume playing should helium proceed with affirmative progress.

The Lakers and Davis volition stay cautious connected the injury, but there's anticipation that determination could beryllium a pathway to resuming play sometime soon aft the re-evaluation successful aboriginal January.

Davis injured the ft past week during a crippled against the Denver Nuggets aft his little close limb bumped with Nikola Jokic portion the 2 were successful midair adjacent the handbasket successful the archetypal quarter.

L.A. had been identifying Davis' wounded arsenic close ft soreness until Friday, erstwhile the squad termed it a accent wounded aft what the Lakers called "extensive consultation" with squad doctors and extracurricular specialists. ESPN antecedently reported that Davis would miss aggregate weeks of playing time, astatine a minimum, due to the fact that of the injury.

Sources told Wojnarowski that the symptom successful Davis' close ft has subsided successful the past respective days and he's expected to remainder it for different 7 to 10 days. He'll past person it reevaluated for a imaginable instrumentality to play.

For now, there's anticipation that a process tin beryllium avoided, the root added.

Davis, who was contiguous for Lakers shootaround Friday wearing a wintertime chapeau and slippers portion helium was connected the court, volition miss his 4th consecutive crippled erstwhile L.A. hosts the Charlotte Hornets. The Lakers person gone 1-2 without him since the Denver game.

The 11-year seasoned had been enjoying a vocation renaissance this play earlier the injury, averaging 27.4 points connected a career-best 59.4% from the field, portion besides grabbing a career-high 12.1 rebounds per crippled with 2.6 assists, 2.1 blocks and 1.3 steals.