{"id":369197,"date":"2025-12-26T03:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T03:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/369197\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T03:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T03:21:08","slug":"lakers-austin-reaves-exits-vs-rockets-due-to-calf-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/369197\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers&#8217; Austin Reaves exits vs. Rockets due to calf injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The breakout guard has been ruled out for the remainder of Thursday&#8217;s contest against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/houston-rockets\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"houston-rockets\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Houston Rockets<\/a> due to left-calf soreness, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-lakers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"los-angeles-lakers\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> announced.<\/p>\n<p>Reaves recently missed three straight games due to the lingering issue before making his return to L.A.&#8217;s lineup on Tuesday in a loss to the Suns.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old is averaging career-best numbers this season, putting up 27.3 points (11th in the NBA), 5.4 rebounds, 6.5 assists and 1.0 steals through 21 games entering Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>Reaves left Thursday&#8217;s matchup against Houston just under 15 minutes of action, racking up 12 points on 5-of-8 shooting, one rebound, one assist and one block.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear when Reaves re-aggravated the calf injury, but the undrafted guard did not start the second half before eventually being ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>His absence will undoubtedly be felt by the Lakers as Reaves ranks top five on the team in points (second), assists (third) and rebounds (fourth).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The breakout guard has been ruled out for the remainder of Thursday&#8217;s contest against the Houston Rockets due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-369197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}