WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Imagine you decide to change up your workout routine. After months of not doing any lat pulldowns, you decide, for some odd reason, to do 10,000 of them.

That’s how Pablo López described the soreness that he was feeling after being diagnosed with a Grade 2 teres major strain, which will keep him sidelined for the next eight to 12 weeks.

“It’s like a weird soreness, which is why I was hopeful early on,” López said. “It just feels like it’s sore.”

Because he didn’t hear a pop, because he wasn’t experiencing immense pain, López — who left Tuesday night’s game with the injury — held out hope that the results of his magnetic resonance imaging, taken on Wednesday might yield more positive results.

“I hate it,” the starter said. “It’s not what I want to be dealing wi

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