{"id":471994,"date":"2025-12-26T03:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T03:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/471994\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T03:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T03:23:13","slug":"lakers-austin-reaves-exits-vs-rockets-because-of-calf-soreness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/471994\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers&#8217; Austin Reaves exits vs. Rockets because of calf soreness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lakers<\/a> guard <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2025-12-11\/lakers-austin-reaves-offense-defene-struggles-nba-cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Austin Reaves<\/a> will not play in the second half against the Houston Rockets because of left calf soreness, the team announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Reaves missed three games with a left calf strain before coming back to play at Phoenix on Tuesday night. He scored 17 points off the bench in the <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/story\/2025-12-23\/austin-reaves-return-cant-save-lakers-from-blowout-loss-suns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lakers\u2019 loss to the Suns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Against the Rockets at Crypto.com Arena, Reaves started and played 15 minutes in the first half, scoring 12 points on five-for-eight shooting. <\/p>\n<p>With Reaves out, the Lakers struggled in the third quarter, scoring just 21 points to trail 92-74 heading into the fourth. The Lakers are trying to avoid losing three consecutive games for the first time this season.<\/p>\n<p>Reaves entered Thursday averaging 27.3 points per game, ranking him 11th in league scoring.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\/newsletter\/2025-12-23\/lebron-james-starting-to-look-like-his-old-self\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lakers coach JJ Redick<\/a> said earlier this week that Reaves wasn\u2019t on a minutes restriction, but the team would monitor his workload \u201cin real time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lakers guard Austin Reaves will not play in the second half against the Houston Rockets because of left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":471995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[17378,1582,214109,276,203672,214110,6362,1910,2961,38269,8604,214112,224,2444,5337,449,5565,214111,101,78355],"class_list":{"0":"post-471994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-austin-reaves","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-calf-soreness","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-christmas-day","13":"tag-cm-arena","14":"tag-crypto","15":"tag-game","16":"tag-la","17":"tag-laker","18":"tag-lakers","19":"tag-left-calf-strain","20":"tag-los-angeles","21":"tag-los-angeles-times","22":"tag-losangeles","23":"tag-point","24":"tag-rockets","25":"tag-rockets-thursday","26":"tag-shooting","27":"tag-three-pointer"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115783729406427624","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471994","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=471994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}