MINNEAPOLIS — The Los Angeles Lakers‘ snake-bit season continued Tuesday with Metta World Peace receiving an MRI exam in Minneapolis that showed a cartilage tear in the lateral meniscus of his left knee.

World Peace will return to Los Angeles, where he was examined Wednesday by team doctor Steve Lombardo, forcing him to miss six weeks. World Peace had been the only member of the Lakers’ season-opening starting lineup yet to miss a game because of injury this season.

World Peace has played in 70 of L.A.’s 71 games (sitting one due to suspension) and averaged 12.8 points, 5.1 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.7 steals per game.