{"id":162855,"date":"2026-02-04T01:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/162855\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T01:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:47:09","slug":"lakers-guard-austin-reaves-to-play-tonight-against-the-nets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/162855\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers guard Austin Reaves to play tonight against the Nets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW YORK\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2025-12-26\/lakers-austin-reaves-out-for-at-least-month-calf-injury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Reaves<\/a>, who missed the last 19 games because of a left calf strain, will play for <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Lakers<\/a> on Tuesday night against the Brooklyn Nets.<\/p>\n<p>Lakers coach <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2025-12-25\/austin-reaves-calf-injury-lakers-rockets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JJ Redick<\/a> said Reaves will come off the bench and will have a minutes restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, he\u2019ll be in,\u201d Redick said. \u201cHe\u2019ll have a minutes restriction, but he\u2019ll be in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reaves has been out since injuring his calf on Christmas Day against the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>In 23 games this season, Reaves is averaging career highs in points (26.6), assists (6.3) and rebounds (5.2). Reaves is shooting 50.7% from the field and 36.5% from three-point range.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019ve missed him in every facet,\u201d Redick said of Reaves. \u201cBoth as an on-ball player, off-ball player, a connector, leadership on the court, competitive spirit \u2014 competitive spirit defensively. So, he\u2019s an All-Star level player and, of course, you\u2019re going to miss him in a number of ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The most recent Lakers starting lineup had Jake LaRavia and Marcus Smart as starters alongside Luka Doncic, LeBron James and Deandre Ayton.<\/p>\n<p>Redick was asked how the group has fared together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I mean, that group has not performed well from a net rating, an offensive\/defensive rating,\u201d Redick said. \u201cSo, we\u2019ve got to figure all this out. And we\u2019ve had two games all season with our full health. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, hopefully, with Austin coming back, we can just have a healthy stretch here and figure out what lineups work best.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Austin Reaves, who missed the last 19 games because of a left calf strain, will play for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[19538,78922,423,7244,2496,48,52,51,10356,1415,6131,47,50,49,7551,1420,31957,2190,1414,278,23611],"class_list":["post-162855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-austin-reaves","tag-competitive-spirit","tag-game","tag-group","tag-jake-laravia","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-laker","tag-lakers","tag-lineup","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-luka-doncic","tag-marcus-smart","tag-nets","tag-reaves","tag-redick","tag-season","tag-tonight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162855","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=162855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}