Rick Fox hopes to return from a torn tendon in his left foot that he sustained during last year's playoffs prehaps in two weeks.

He is targeting the Lakers' home game on Jan 9. to make his season debut.

"I could play if I had to right now," Fox said Thursday, before the Lakers played a Christmas Day game he originally intended to be part of. "The last two weeks have been very heartening in the sense that two weeks ago, I was still in that realm of uncertainty. But I feel way beyond the point of uncertainty now, and it's just a matter of continued strength building."