{"id":345127,"date":"2025-12-13T10:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T10:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/345127\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T10:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T10:14:09","slug":"lakers-austin-reaves-out-at-least-a-week-with-calf-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/345127\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers\u2019 Austin Reaves out at least a week with calf injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1951768\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1951768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Austin-Reaves-784x523.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"784\" height=\"523\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1951768\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles will be without Austin Reaves for the next week.<\/p>\n<p>EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Los Angeles Lakers guard Austin Reaves will miss at least one week with a mildly strained left calf.<\/p>\n<p>Reaves will miss at least the Lakers\u2019 next two games, according to the timeline set out by the team Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Reaves is the NBA\u2019s ninth-leading scorer this season with 27.8 points per game during a breakout start. The former undrafted free agent has played his way into genuine stardom during his five seasons with the Lakers, and he is earning All-Star buzz this year while forming a prolific backcourt with Luka Don\u010di\u0107, who is averaging 35.0 points.<\/p>\n<p>Reaves is also contributing 6.7 assists and 5.6 rebounds per game for the Lakers, who are off to a 17-7 start despite injury absences for all three of their best players.<\/p>\n<p>LeBron James missed the first 14 games of his unprecedented 23rd NBA season due to sciatica. Don\u010di\u0107 has missed six games with minor injury management and a quick trip to Europe for the birth of his second child, while Reaves missed three games earlier this season as well.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers\u2019 next game is at Phoenix on Sunday, and they don\u2019t play again until Thursday at Utah.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Austin Reaves has a mild left calf strain, per the Lakers. Will be reevaluated in approximately one week.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave McMenamin (@mcten) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcten\/status\/1999629249922367911?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles will be without Austin Reaves for the next week. EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Los Angeles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,190984,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-345127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-austin-reaves-injury","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345127","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=345127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}