{"id":110216,"date":"2025-12-27T03:19:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T03:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/110216\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T03:19:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T03:19:18","slug":"lakers-austin-reaves-out-for-at-least-a-month-with-calf-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/110216\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers’ Austin Reaves out for at least a month with calf injury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lakers<\/a> guard Austin Reaves<\/a> will miss at least a month with a grade 2 strain in his left calf, the team announced Friday, one day after he left the game against the Houston Rockets at halftime.<\/p>\n

Reaves, averaging career highs in points (26.6), assists (6.3) and rebounds (5.2), had already missed three games with what the team called a \u201cmild\u201d calf strain. He returned off the bench while playing on a minutes restriction against Phoenix on Dec. 23 and reprised his starting role on Christmas Day in a loss to the Rockets<\/a>. But after scoring 12 points in 15 minutes in the first half, he was ruled out for the second half with \u201cleft calf soreness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Calf injuries have been major concerns across the NBA since three stars \u2014 Tyrese Haliburton, Damian Lillard and Jayson Tatum \u2014 suffered Achilles tears during last year\u2019s playoffs. Haliburton and Lillard have previously dealt with calf injuries. <\/p>\n

Lakers star guard Luka Doncic<\/a> suffered a calf injury on Christmas Day last year while with the Dallas Mavericks and missed two months, during which he was traded to the Lakers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know how it is to go to a calf injury. It\u2019s not fun at all,\u201d Doncic said Thursday after the game. \u201c[I\u2019ll] just be there to support him. Take your time. Calves are dangerous so take your time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Lakers (19-10) are losing their second-leading scorer at a critical time of the season. They have lost three consecutive games, their only losing streak of the season, and their defense in the last 15 games has been among the worst in the league. <\/p>\n

After the third consecutive blowout loss, coach JJ Redick questioned how much his players cared<\/a>. He promised an \u201cuncomfortable\u201d film session and team meeting at practice on Saturday before the Lakers face Sacramento at Crypto.com<\/a> Arena on Sunday.<\/p>\n

After a difficult stretch of the schedule that included eight out of 10 games against teams with winning records, the Lakers have four of their next five against teams in the bottom of the Western Conference standings. Outside of a home game against the Eastern Conference-leading Detroit Pistons on Tuesday, the Lakers play the Sacramento Kings, the Memphis Grizzlies (on Jan. 2 and 4) and at New Orleans on Jan. 6. <\/p>\n

Reaves\u2019 absence could extend until the beginning of the Lakers\u2019 Grammy road trip that begins on Jan. 20 against Denver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lakers guard Austin Reaves will miss at least a month with a grade 2 strain in his left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[19538,59141,43668,24093,423,7006,7217,48,52,51,10356,1415,47,50,49,59142,3906,1417,121,427,315],"class_list":{"0":"post-110216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-austin-reaves","9":"tag-calf-injury","10":"tag-christmas-day","11":"tag-dec","12":"tag-game","13":"tag-houston-rockets","14":"tag-jan","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-la-headlines","17":"tag-la-news","18":"tag-laker","19":"tag-lakers","20":"tag-los-angeles","21":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","22":"tag-los-angeles-news","23":"tag-minute-restriction","24":"tag-month","25":"tag-point","26":"tag-sacramento","27":"tag-team","28":"tag-time"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110216","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=110216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}