Lakers’ JJ Redick hopes Deandre Ayton will rejoin lineup by end of week

LOS ANGELES — Lakers starting center Deandre Ayton was not available for Tuesday night’s home game against the Clippers, but the team hopes to have him back by the end of the week.
Coach JJ Redick said during his pregame media availability that Ayton, who sat out Tuesday because of a right knee contusion, was experiencing swelling and had a bruise but that imaging on the knee came back “clean.”
Ayton suffered the injury when he got hit in the knee during the first half of