The absence of all three players was a factor in the Lakers losing 131-119 to Utah on Wednesday. They hold a 32-20 record and are in fifth place in the Western Conference, and they're just half a game behind the fourth-place Houston Rockets and three games behind the second-place Memphis Grizzlies.

It has been a wild calendar month of February for Mark Williams thus far. Williams, at one point, was headed to the Los Angeles Lakers, with the Charlotte Hornets trading away their young budding center for a package headlined by Dalton Knecht and a 2031 first-round pick.

Find out if the Charlotte Hornets star LaMelo Ball is playing against the Los Angeles Lakers for their Wednesday matchup.