Plaschke: Lakers finishing with headache, nausea and dimming hopes [Video]

Headache. Nausea.

The two words were uttered Tuesday night to describe the condition of a certain Laker.

The two words could also describe the reaction of their fans.

Headache. Nausea.

In the final hours before tipoff against the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday night at Crypto.com Arena, the Lakers announced that Anthony Davis was going to miss the game because of a headache and nausea.

Davis is their most important player. This was going to be, thus far, their most important game.

It was an absence of monumental proportions. It became a loss of dreadful ramifications.

The Warriors’ 134-120 victory was thus defined by the symptoms that scuttled the mission.

The two words have placed the season on a tightrope.

Headache. Nausea.

The Lakers now enter their final two games precariously balancing above disaster, needing to win on the road at Memphis and New Orleans while hoping for help to avoid ending as …