{"id":358272,"date":"2025-11-05T21:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T21:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/358272\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T21:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T21:06:11","slug":"lakers-guard-austin-reaves-to-miss-game-tonight-vs-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/358272\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers guard Austin Reaves to miss game tonight vs. Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Guard <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/newsletter\/2025-10-27\/austin-reaves-lakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Austin Reaves<\/a> will miss a second consecutive game because of right groin soreness, <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Lakers<\/a> announced Wednesday, since he will be sidelined for the game against the San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>Reaves started to feel discomfort in the first quarter of the team\u2019s <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2025-11-02\/lakers-miami-heat-luka-doncic-austin-reaves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">win over Miami<\/a> on Sunday, coach JJ Redick said Monday, and sat out of the second game of back-to-back nights in Portland. He was a full participant in the team\u2019s shootaround Wednesday morning, even joining star guard <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2025-10-31\/los-angeles-lakers-memphis-grizzlies-game-recap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luka Doncic<\/a>, forward Maxi Kleber and staff members in a half-court shooting competition.<\/p>\n<p>Reaves is averaging 31.1 points per game with a team-leading 9.3 assists. Doncic, who missed the Portland game while managing a left leg contusion, will be available Wednesday as the team hosts the Spurs and star center Victor Wembanyama.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Austin Reaves (groin soreness) was a full participant at shootaround this morning and is still questionable for tonight against the Spurs. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sao5mKjjPe\">pic.twitter.com\/sao5mKjjPe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Thuc Nhi Nguyen (@thucnhi21) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thucnhi21\/status\/1986149766783549538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The French superstar is averaging 26.7 points, 13.7 rebounds and 4.7 blocks per game in his third year in the NBA. The still-growing 7-foot-4, 21-year-old has turned heads with his unique combination of perimeter skill, shooting and defense that Lakers center Deandre Ayton compared to the Space Jam villians \u201cThe Monstars\u201d on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s unbelievable,\u201d Ayton said. \u201cHe\u2019s truly a once in a generational player. And he can do everything. A dude his size so nimble and so fast and quick with or without the ball. It takes a whole team to guard him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers will have center Jaxson Hayes to help. Hayes was listed as probable on the initial injury report with a right ankle sprain, but was upgraded to available after the shoot-around.<\/p>\n<p>LeBron James (right sciatica), Adou Thiero (left knee surgery recovery), Gabe Vincent (left ankle sprain) and Kleber (abdominal muscle strain) remain out.<\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guard Austin Reaves will miss a second consecutive game because of right groin soreness, the Lakers announced Wednesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":358273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[29243,1582,276,262,174476,2961,38269,8604,224,5337,121575,174480,449,23077,174479,174478,174477,101,7199,3007],"class_list":{"0":"post-358272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-austin-reave","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-defense","12":"tag-game-tonight","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-laker","15":"tag-lakers","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-maxi-kleber","19":"tag-perimeter-skill","20":"tag-point","21":"tag-portland","22":"tag-right-ankle-sprain","23":"tag-second-consecutive-game","24":"tag-shootaround-wednesday-morning","25":"tag-shooting","26":"tag-spurs","27":"tag-team"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115499131735674138","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}