32-21<\/a>).<\/p>\nFor LeBron James, missing the game meant the Lakers\u2019 All-Star became ineligible for NBA postseason awards, ending his streak of making the All-NBA team at 21 seasons. The league\u2019s threshold to be eligible for postseason awards is 65 games. The most James can reach is 64 if he does not sit out another game.<\/p>\n
James, playing in his NBA-record 23rd season, missed the first 14 games of the season because of sciatica, making it difficult to meet the threshold. <\/p>\n
Redick said James has been \u201cdealing with the history of injuries he\u2019s had and to start the year.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJust depends on how he wakes up the next day and as he goes through his treatment in the morning,\u201d Redick added. \u201cBut we ruled him out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Doncic missed his third straight game with his injury. The Lakers next play Thursday night here against the Mavericks, Doncic\u2019s former team. Redick said Doncic was listed as \u201cday to day\u201d when asked if his All-Star would play against the Mavericks.<\/p>\n
Doncic, the leading-vote getter for Sunday\u2019s All-Star Game, has been working out and playing some five-on-five action to get ready.<\/p>\n
\u201cLuka continues to progress,\u201d Redick said.<\/p>\n
Before playing in the past four games, Reaves had missed the previous 19 with his calf injury.<\/p>\n
Redick said Reaves \u201cwas coming back from a tissue injury\u201d and was \u201conly going to play in one of these games.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Lakers forward Drew Timme tries to fend off Spurs guard Dylan Harper in the first half.<\/p>\n
(Gina Ferazzi \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n
Redick said Smart tweaked his ankle in the fourth quarter of Monday night\u2019s game and had a \u201cpretty high level of soreness\u201d when he woke up Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Ayton had been listed as questionable and was being called a game-time decision before the game because Redick said Ayton is dealing with \u201chis knee again.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, it was left up to the rest of the healthy Lakers to deal with Wembanyama and the Spurs.<\/p>\n
The Lakers lost Monday night to the Thunder, the defending NBA champions who also have the best record in the league, and then had this back-to-back game against the tough Spurs.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always a good test,\u201d Redick said. \u201cLast night was a great test for us. Tonight will be a great test. There\u2019s a lot of similarities between the two teams. Their mentality is no different than OKC\u2019s, which is find foot angles and attack the paint.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even with essentially his entire starting lineup unavailable because of injuries, Lakers coach JJ Redick still looked forward…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":581688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5133],"tags":[252286,5229,38124,17378,1910,28459,8604,3363,25873,252287,252285,24566,10201,7202,7203,5950,7199,358,14065,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-581687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-all-nba-team","tag-america","tag-assist","tag-austin-reaves","tag-game","tag-kobe-bryant","tag-lakers","tag-lebron-james","tag-marcus-smart","tag-nba-award","tag-postseason-award","tag-rebound","tag-run","tag-san-antonio","tag-sanantonio","tag-season","tag-spurs","tag-texas","tag-tim-duncan","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116050762797452192","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581687","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=581687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}