{"id":698524,"date":"2026-04-04T22:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/698524\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T22:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:02:18","slug":"lakers-lose-austin-reaves-to-injury-in-second-major-injury-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/698524\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers Lose Austin Reaves to Injury in Second Major Injury Blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Lakers star Austin Reaves is out for the remainder of the regular season for the Lakers as he has suffered a serious oblique injury. <\/p>\n<p>He has a Grade 2 left oblique muscle injury that was picked up during the Lakers\u2019 blowout loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder. <\/p>\n<p>According to head coach JJ Redick, Reaves had to get a second MRI in Dallas because the team didn\u2019t scan the right area the Lakers requested. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, I don\u2019t know where the chain of command lies with Dallas imaging, but they scanned the wrong area,\u201d coach JJ Redick said. \u201cNot on our end. We made it explicit what was supposed to be scanned but they scanned the wrong area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img data-od-unknown-tag=\"\" data-od-xpath=\"\/HTML\/BODY\/DIV[@class='elementor elementor-246438 elementor-location-single post-252443 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-lakers tag-austin-reaves tag-lakers tag-los-angeles-lakers tag-luka-doncic mv-content-wrapper']\/*[2][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[4][self::DIV]\/*[5][self::FIGURE]\/*[1][self::IMG]\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-dominant-color=\"433f42\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #433f42;\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/austin-reaves-lakers-guard-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA; Los Angeles Lakers guard Austin Reaves (15) shoots a three point basket against the Oklahoma City Thunder during the first quarter at Paycom Center. 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Mandatory Credit: Alonzo Adams-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Reaves is the second key player the Lakers are losing to injury, after Luka Doncic was diagnosed with a left hamstring injury. <\/p>\n<p>Doncic also picked up the injury against the Thunder, a game that was meant to cement the Lakers as a serious title contender in a loaded Western Conference. <\/p>\n<p>However, the Lakers were run out of the gym early on by a Thunder team that is growing in confidence and health as the season progresses. <\/p>\n<p>With the two top options out for the Lakers, LeBron James will be tasked with carrying a massive offensive load as the focal point of the offense and the only true ball-handler left on the team. <\/p>\n<p>Reaves is expected to need three to four weeks to recover, while Doncic\u2019s timeline is unclear. If either is not available for the postseason, the Lakers\u2019 chances are slim to none. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers star Austin Reaves is out for the remainder of the regular season for the Lakers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3790],"tags":[1013,7,4034,1698,300,4044,251,150,4033,4043,368,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-698524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-lakers","8":"tag-austin-reaves","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-lakers","12":"tag-lakers","13":"tag-lalakers","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangeleslakers","18":"tag-luka-doncic","19":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116348699158296650","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698524","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=698524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}