{"id":1866071,"date":"2026-04-04T21:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1866071"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T18:22:12","slug":"lakers-austin-reaves-out-for-rest-of-regular-season-with-oblique-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1866071","title":{"rendered":"Lakers\u2019 Austin Reaves out for rest of regular season with oblique injury"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DALLAS \u2014 Los Angeles Lakers guard Austin Reaves will miss the rest of the regular season with a grade 2 left oblique muscle injury, the team announced Saturday. A league source told The Athletic\u00a0<\/em>that Reaves is expected to miss 4 to 6 weeks with the injury.<\/p>\n

The injury news comes one day after the Lakers learned Luka Don\u010di\u0107 would miss the remainder of the regular season \u2014 at least \u2014 with a Grade 2 hamstring strain.<\/p>\n

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Reaves suffered the injury in the first half of the Lakers\u2019 blowout loss to Oklahoma City when he reached back to tap a loose ball to himself. Immediately after grabbing the rebound, Reaves reached for his left side in pain.<\/p>\n

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He remained in the game despite being noticeably uncomfortable. He went back to the locker room minutes later after checking out, only to return in the second quarter. He was taken out of the game in the third quarter shortly after Don\u010di\u0107 suffered his hamstring injury.<\/p>\n

The Lakers will be without Reaves\u2019 23.3 points, 5.5 assists and 4.7 rebounds in addition to the 33.5 points, 8.3 assists and 7.7 rebounds they lost with Don\u010di\u0107\u2019s injury.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DALLAS \u2014 Los Angeles Lakers guard Austin Reaves will miss the rest of the regular season with a grade 2 left oblique muscle injury, the team announced Saturday. A league source told The Athletic\u00a0that Reaves is expected to miss 4 to 6 weeks with the injury. The injury news comes one day after the Lakers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,241],"class_list":["post-1866071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-nytimes-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1866071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1866071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1866071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1866071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}