{"id":330655,"date":"2025-12-06T02:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T02:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330655\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T02:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T02:41:10","slug":"austin-reaves-lakers-disappoint-nba-fans-in-loss-to-celtics-with-lebron-luka-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330655\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Reaves, Lakers Disappoint NBA Fans in Loss to Celtics with LeBron, Luka Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Los Angeles Lakers struggled to be competitive without LeBron James and Luka Doncic on Friday night against the Boston Celtics. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Lakers fell behind by 22 points in the first quarter, and despite 36 points from Austin Reaves, they put in an overall disappoint performance in the 126-105 defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Reaves produced 36 points, eight assists and three rebounds before J.J. Redick emptied the lakers bench halfway through the fourth quarter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Gabe Vincent was the only other Lakers player to score over 15 points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Deandre Ayton was especially disappointing with just six points to go along with 10 rebounds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Lakers will be back in action on Sunday in Philadelphia, their last game before the NBA Cup semifinal clash with the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Lakers struggled to be competitive without LeBron James and Luka Doncic on Friday night against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-330655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}