While the 2023-24 season ended in disappointment for Davis on a team level, it was a good one from an individual standpoint. He averaged 24.7 points, 12.6 rebounds, 3.5 assists, 1.2 steals, and 2.3 blocks per game.
Following all the talk about his inability to stay healthy in recent seasons, Davis also played a career-high 76 games in this campaign. The Lakers went 2-4 in the six games he missed and he was easily their most important player.
Even in that playoff series against the Nuggets, Davis played fairly well. He averaged 27.8 points, 15.6 rebounds, 4.0 assists, 0.4 steals, and 1.6 blocks per game.
The only knock on Davis was that he wasn’t effective on offense down the stretch in a lot of those contests. That, though, was largely down to him not having much gas left in the tank after spending so much energy on the defensive end. It is not ideal by any means, but he certainly wasn’t the one to blame for the Lakers bowing out early.
