Bucks' Monroe late scratch vs. Lakers with sore left knee

Greg Monroe will not be in the lineup for the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday night when his team goes against the 3-21 Los Angeles Lakers at Staples Center.

"Moose" was made a late scratch less than an hour before tipoff due to a sore left knee, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal's Charles Gardner reports.

John Henson will see his first start of the season in place of Monroe.

This will be the first game of the 2015-16 campaign that Monroe, 25, misses. He's averaging a team-high 16.2 points and 9.8 rebounds on 52.5 percent shooting in 31.4 minutes per game after signing a three-year, $53-million contract with the Bucks in the offseason.

Milwaukee has been one of the bigger disappointments in the Eastern Conference with a 10-15 (13th) record.