A Los Angeles Lakers rookie shooting guard has incurred a major ankle injury and will likely sit out at least the rest of the preseason.

LA can’t stay healthy in the build-up to the 2025-26 regular season.

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Per Khobi Price of The Orange County Register, second-year Lakers president JJ Redick has revealed that two-way guard Chris Manon incurred a Grade 2 ankle sprain, and considers it “very unlikely” he will play at all during the end of LA’s exhibition slate.

JJ Redick says Chris Mañon suffered a Grade 2 ankle sprain and it’s “very unlikely” he’ll play during the preseason.

— Khobi Price (@khobi_price) October 13, 2025

Manon, a 6-foot-5 first-year wing, went undrafted out of Vanderbilt, but was quickly snagged by the Lakers on a two-way deal.

As a two-way signing, the 23-year-old will be toggled between Los Angeles and its El Segundo-based G League affiliate, the South Bay Lakers. He will be limited to 50 games with the Lakers proper, unless the team opts to promote him to its 15-man standard roster.

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Across seven Summer League games, Manon averaged 9.0 points on .442/.286/.676, 4.3 rebounds, 1.9 assist, 1.6 steals and 1.4 blocks in 17.1 minutes per. But he hadn’t gotten off the bench at all in the preseason yet, and now we have a better sense as to why.

Following a successful All-Ivy career at Cornell, Manon used his fifth and final season of collegiate eligibility to transfer to a bigger program at Vanderbilt in 2024-25. In 33 games, he averaged 6.6 points on .533/.235/.783 shooting splits, 1.7 steals, 1.3 assists and 1.0 blocks per.

Joining Manon in the Lakers’ three two-way slots this year are returning center Christian Koloko and combo guard Nick Smith Jr.

Koloko, 25, returned to the NBA last year and a season-long blood clot absence. In 37 games with the Lakers, the 7-footer out of Arizona averaged 2.4 points on 60.6 percent shooting from the field and 71.4 percent shooting from the charity stripe, 2.5 rebounds and 0.5 assists per.

Smith was selected with the No. 27 pick by the Charlotte Hornets out of Arkansas in the 2023 NBA Draft. Last year with Charlotte, Smith averaged a career-high 9.9 points on .391/.340/.935 shooting splits, 2.4 assists, and 2.1 rebounds in 60 games, while also logging time with Charlotte’s NBAGL affiliate, the Greensboro Swarm.

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