{"id":544048,"date":"2026-01-18T03:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T03:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/544048\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T03:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T03:21:14","slug":"will-deandre-ayton-jaxson-hayes-play-versus-trail-blazers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/544048\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Deandre Ayton, Jaxson Hayes play versus Trail Blazers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-lakers\/13\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Lakers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> take on the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/portland-trail-blazers\/22\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Portland Trail Blazers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> on Saturday at Moda Center in Oregon, they will be without Austin Reaves and Luka Doncic, their starting guards. Reaves is still out with a gastrocnemius strain, while Doncic is dealing with groin soreness.<\/p>\n<p>Both of the Lakers&#8217; true rotational centers \u2014 Deandre Ayton and Jaxson Hayes \u2014 were listed as questionable due to knee soreness and a hamstring ailment, respectively. With the opening tip approaching, both were also ruled out, which means that the team will be very short-handed against the Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It will return home to play the Toronto Raptors on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles has lost four of its last five games and 11 of its last 20. It currently has a 24-15 record, which puts it in sixth place in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on LeBron Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/lebronwire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2026\/01\/17\/will-deandre-ayton-jaxson-hayes-play-versus-trail-blazers\/88239036007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Will Deandre Ayton, Jaxson Hayes play versus Trail Blazers?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Will Deandre Ayton, Jaxson Hayes play versus Trail Blazers?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the Los Angeles Lakers take on the Portland Trail Blazers on Saturday at Moda Center in Oregon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[1013,7,601,1586,70626,32,20729,251,150,368,6,687,471,3967,476,1617],"class_list":["post-544048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-portland-trail-blazers","tag-austin-reaves","tag-basketball","tag-blazers","tag-deandre-ayton","tag-gastrocnemius-strain","tag-jaxson-hayes","tag-knee-soreness","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-luka-doncic","tag-nba","tag-portland","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-portlandtrailblazers","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-trail-blazers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115913954756819050","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}