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Los Angeles Lakers forward Pau Gasol has a tear in the plantar fascia of his right foot, an MRI revealed Wednesday.
The Lakers did not say how long Gasol will be out, but CBS Sports reported that the 7-footer will miss miss six-to-eight weeks.
Gasol was injured in Tuesday night's loss to the Brooklyn Nets.
"I tweaked my fascia in the first half, so I was dealing with quite a bit of soreness in the second half," Gasol said Tuesday while explaining his injury. "So I couldn't do certain things.
"I was dealing with it, but that play when I tried to jump off of it and try go block the shot (by Brooklyn's Brook Lopez), just as I took off, I felt a pop in the bottom of my foot on my fascia and I couldn't get up. I'm worried about it."
The Lakers, in Boston to play the Celtics on Thursday, said Gasol will fly back to Los Angeles on Thursday to be examined by the team's medical staff.
Gasol initially tried to play through the injury that occured with 3:50 left in the game. But after one trip up and down the floor, he asked coach Mike D'Antoni for a sub and went to the locker room with Lakers trainer Gary Vitti.
"It felt kind of OK a little bit putting my weight on it without walking or running, but once I started running, I was limping and it was really sore," Gasol said Tuesday. "Even if I tried, I couldn't go."
Gasol finished with 15 points, four rebounds and two blocks in the Lakers' 92-83 win over the Nets.
The Lakers were granted a disabled player's exception for Jordan Hill last week after the backup center went out with season-ending hip surgery. The exception will allow the Lakers to spend a little more than half of Hill's salary, about $1.78 million, in order to sign a free agent or to absorb a player's contract acquired in a trade.
Despite Gasol's foot injury, the Lakers are not dead set on using the exception, a team source told ESPNLosAngeles.com's Dave McMenamin, and are hopeful the situation will prompt Dwight Howard to return and play through his sore right shoulder "sooner than later."
Gasol already has missed 13 games this season because of tendinitis in both knees and a concussion.
The Lakers did not say how long Gasol will be out, but CBS Sports reported that the 7-footer will miss miss six-to-eight weeks.
Gasol was injured in Tuesday night's loss to the Brooklyn Nets.
"I tweaked my fascia in the first half, so I was dealing with quite a bit of soreness in the second half," Gasol said Tuesday while explaining his injury. "So I couldn't do certain things.
"I was dealing with it, but that play when I tried to jump off of it and try go block the shot (by Brooklyn's Brook Lopez), just as I took off, I felt a pop in the bottom of my foot on my fascia and I couldn't get up. I'm worried about it."
The Lakers, in Boston to play the Celtics on Thursday, said Gasol will fly back to Los Angeles on Thursday to be examined by the team's medical staff.
Gasol initially tried to play through the injury that occured with 3:50 left in the game. But after one trip up and down the floor, he asked coach Mike D'Antoni for a sub and went to the locker room with Lakers trainer Gary Vitti.
"It felt kind of OK a little bit putting my weight on it without walking or running, but once I started running, I was limping and it was really sore," Gasol said Tuesday. "Even if I tried, I couldn't go."
Gasol finished with 15 points, four rebounds and two blocks in the Lakers' 92-83 win over the Nets.
The Lakers were granted a disabled player's exception for Jordan Hill last week after the backup center went out with season-ending hip surgery. The exception will allow the Lakers to spend a little more than half of Hill's salary, about $1.78 million, in order to sign a free agent or to absorb a player's contract acquired in a trade.
Despite Gasol's foot injury, the Lakers are not dead set on using the exception, a team source told ESPNLosAngeles.com's Dave McMenamin, and are hopeful the situation will prompt Dwight Howard to return and play through his sore right shoulder "sooner than later."
Gasol already has missed 13 games this season because of tendinitis in both knees and a concussion.
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