{"id":916507,"date":"2026-11-13T23:57:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T23:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/916507\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T23:57:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T23:57:32","slug":"lakers-austin-reaves-considered-day-to-day-with-heel-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/916507\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers’ Austin Reaves considered day-to-day with heel injury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the day the Lakers<\/a> hosted their annual Thanksgiving Feast event to kick off their \u201cSeason of Giving<\/a>\u201d at the team\u2019s practice facility, they were able to give some thanks for dodging serious injuries.<\/p>\n

Austin Reaves<\/a> didn\u2019t have to get further imaging on his injured left heel, coach JJ Redick said after practice Friday, and the star guard will be listed as day-to-day.<\/p>\n

Redick also said that All-Star guard Luka Doncic<\/a> was \u201cfine\u201d after injuring his ankle in a win over the Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> on Wednesday night, that a concussion was ruled out for guard Collin Sexton<\/a> after he received stitches to his forehead following a collision with Milwaukee\u2019s Ryan Rollins, and that guard Quentin Grimes<\/a> worked out in the stay-ready-game against coaches after missing two games because of a finger injury.<\/p>\n

Reaves left Wednesday\u2019s win in the third quarter and didn\u2019t return. His X-rays after the game were negative and by Thursday morning, when the team had returned to L.A. after going 3-0 on the four-day trip, Reaves felt well enough that he and team personnel opted against getting more imaging.<\/p>\n

Redick said Reaves has a bruise on his heel and described it as \u201cminor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doncic, who leads the NBA in scoring (38.6 points) and is ninth in assists (7.6), is doing OK after he injured his right ankle in the fourth quarter Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe expectation would be he\u2019s available,\u201d Redick said.<\/p>\n

Sexton had to get stitches above his right eye after the collision with 6:51 left in the fourth quarter Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Redick said Sexton also will be day-to-day.<\/p>\n

\"Lakers <\/p>\n

Lakers guard Collin Sexton, preparing to defend Hawks guard Kingston Flemings, is listed as day-to-day after getting stitches above his right eye following a collision during a win over the Bucks.<\/p>\n

(Mike Stewart \/ Associated Press)<\/p>\n

Grimes, who missed two games because of a sprained finger on his right hand, participated in the live portion of the stay-ready game Wednesday and expects to play Sunday. Grimes wore a wrap on his right pinky finger while speaking with reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a really good day just playing with a little wrap over it,\u201d Grimes said. \u201cJust seeing how it felt the first time, but it felt really good. We got a lot of wins out there in them games, at least. But it felt really good out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Lakers will have three days off before they play again Sunday to Phoenix.<\/p>\n

Even though the Lakers have the best record in the NBA (11-2), are the top scoring team (122.2 points) in the league and rank first in offensive rating (121.6), Redick wanted to let his group know there is room for improvement.<\/p>\n

During the film session Friday he told his team they \u201cwere 17th in defense\u201d rating at 113.6. And the Lakers are 27th in rebounding.<\/p>\n

Redick said he and his staff talked about \u201c20 things\u201d that they can clean up.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe filtered through our offensive stuff based on our identities of who we want to be offensively: organized, unselfish and advantage-based,\u201d Redick said. \u201cThen we went through the stats on that. <\/p>\n

\u201cThen we went to our defense and our three identities: organized, physical as hell and relentless. And we went through the stats on those things. So, it\u2019s a very clean thing. We\u2019ve done that for the last 2\u00bd seasons. It\u2019s just everything that we present to the team lines up with who we\u2019re trying to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Redick got his message through to his players.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing first in the West, with the stuff that they showed us, you would think we were almost last, you know?\u201d forward Ziaire Williams said. \u201cBut it\u2019s gotta keep us honest. But you know, it\u2019s good to know that there\u2019s still room for growth as good as we\u2019re doing. So yeah, it was great, it was great. So yeah, hopefully we\u2019ll clean that up going into the next game against Phoenix.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the day the Lakers hosted their annual Thanksgiving Feast event to kick off their \u201cSeason of Giving\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":916508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[11654,382900,102207,40691,5460,382899,6306,355,382902,382901,7627,66657,99,79374,1599,6601,4200],"class_list":["post-916507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-austin-reaves","tag-coach-jj-redick","tag-day-to-day","tag-first-time","tag-game","tag-heel-injury","tag-lakers","tag-nba","tag-positive-injury-news","tag-practice-friday","tag-quentin-grimes","tag-reaves","tag-sports","tag-sunday-afternoon","tag-team","tag-wednesday","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}