{"id":589847,"date":"2026-04-08T08:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/589847\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T08:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:26:07","slug":"mavs-deny-they-botched-austin-reaves-mri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/589847\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavs Deny They Botched Austin Reaves&#8217; MRI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mavericks denied Lakers coach JJ Redick\u2018s claim that they botched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/r\/reaveau01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-07_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Austin Reaves<\/a>\u2018 MRI, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7179502\/2026\/04\/07\/austin-reaves-mri-mavericks-no-error\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Christian Clark of The Athletic<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Reaves underwent an MRI on his left oblique\/rib area on Saturday ahead of Sunday\u2019s game in Dallas after suffering the injury against Oklahoma City on Thursday. Redick <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/04\/austin-reaves-to-miss-rest-of-regular-season-with-oblique-muscle-injury.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told the media<\/a> that Reaves had to get two MRIs done because the first one didn\u2019t focus on the correct portion of his body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know where the chain of command lies with Dallas imaging, but they scanned the wrong area,\u201d Redick\u00a0said. \u201cNot on our end. We made it explicit what was supposed to be scanned, but they scanned the wrong area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks issued an official statement that they didn\u2019t make a mistake administering an MRI on Reaves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur medical team followed standard imaging protocols based on the information provided at the time,\u201d the statement read. \u201cThere was no error in the scan performed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reaves was eventually diagnosed with a Grade 2 oblique strain, which is expected to sideline him for four-to-six weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mavericks denied Lakers coach JJ Redick\u2018s claim that they botched Austin Reaves\u2018 MRI, Christian Clark of The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[45842,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-589847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-austin-reaves","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589847","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=589847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}