{"id":109229,"date":"2025-12-26T03:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T03:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/109229\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T03:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T03:29:07","slug":"lakers-lose-austin-reaves-then-fall-to-rockets-for-another-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/109229\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers lose Austin Reaves, then fall to Rockets for another loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2025-12-11\/lakers-austin-reaves-offense-defene-struggles-nba-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Reaves<\/a> did not play in the second half of the Lakers\u2019 119-96 Christmas Day loss to Houston Rockets because of left calf soreness.<\/p>\n<p>Reaves missed three games with a left calf strain before returning against Phoenix on Tuesday. He scored 17 points off the bench in the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2025-12-23\/austin-reaves-return-cant-save-lakers-from-blowout-loss-suns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lakers\u2019 loss to the Suns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Against the Rockets at Crypto.com Arena, Reaves started and played 15 minutes in the first half, scoring 12 points on five-for-eight shooting. <\/p>\n<p>With Reaves out, the Lakers scored just 21 points in the third quarter before going on to drop their third consecutive game for the first time this season.<\/p>\n<p>Reaves entered Thursday averaging 27.3 points per game, ranking him 11th in league scoring.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/newsletter\/2025-12-23\/lebron-james-starting-to-look-like-his-old-self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lakers coach JJ Redick<\/a> said earlier this week that Reaves wasn\u2019t on a minutes restriction, but the team would monitor his workload \u201cin real time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin Reaves did not play in the second half of the Lakers\u2019 119-96 Christmas Day loss to Houston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[19538,58718,43668,58719,28684,423,48,52,51,10356,1415,58721,47,50,49,63,1417,28471,58720,135,7553],"class_list":["post-109229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-austin-reaves","tag-calf-soreness","tag-christmas-day","tag-cm-arena","tag-crypto","tag-game","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-laker","tag-lakers","tag-left-calf-strain","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-point","tag-rockets","tag-rockets-thursday","tag-shooting","tag-three-pointer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}