L.A. Lakers: Steve Blake's Chicken Pox Add More Trouble for the Lakers

Los Angeles Lakers Suffer Another Set Back As Steve Blake Contracts Chicken Pox

It’s getting almost comically for the Lakers as the regular season winds down.

Andrew Bynum hyper-extended his knee against the Spurs on Tuesday night and Matt Barnes has a sore right knee and will be a game-time decision in tonight's must win against Sacramento.

Now word has come out that backup point guard Steve Blake has been diagnosed with chicken pox.

Yeah that’s right, a disease five-year old’s usually contract has infected a key piece of a team that is trying to win a third straight championship.

Blake will miss at least a week as he sits in oatmeal baths. Chicken pox is extremely contagious for anybody that has never had them before. Three players on the roster have never had the disease:

Kobe Bryant, Ron Artest and Andrew Bynum.

Wow.

Three starters could potentially contract chicken pox and one of them is Kobe?

This is a small story that has the potential to explode if Kobe is diagnosed with it. Imagine how hated Blake would be in the city of LA if he was the guy that got Kobe infected with chicken pox a mere three days before the postseason.

Blake’s wife Kristen doesn’t even know how Steve contracted chicken pox according to her Twitter account:

"And before anyone asks NO my kids didn't give it to him. They were vaccinated and are healthy. No clue where or how Steve got chicken pox.”

Hot read on the Lakers Andrew Bynum.

It’s a very bizarre story that makes you wonder how in the world Blake got it. For all the Laker fans out there, cross your fingers Blake never coughed on Bryant, Bynum or Artest in the past few days.

It can take two weeks to get the symptoms...that noise you hear are the Laker fans cursing out Blake as their teams playoff hopes hinge on a kids illness.

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