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Lakers guard Austin Reaves will miss the remainder of the regular season after being diagnosed with a Grade 2 left oblique strain, the team announced. Reaves is expected to be sidelined four to six weeks, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania, placing a potential return in the second or third round of the playoffs.
Austin Reaves will not be seeing action for several weeks. The Los Angeles Lakers guard has been diagnosed with an oblique injury and is expected to miss not only the rest of the regular season but also games in the playoffs, according to Shams Charania of ESPN.
The Los Angeles Lakers head into the final week of the regular season with an opportunity to sew up home-court advantage for the first round of the NBA Playoffs, but they begin the final push Sunday at Dallas with Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves sidelined.
The Los Angeles Lakers released their injury report for Sunday’s game against the Dallas Mavericks and Marcus Smart (right ankle contusion) remains out while Jarred Vanderbilt (right calf soreness) is questionable.
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The Los Angeles Lakers announced that guard Austin Reaves has been diagnosed with a Grade 2 left oblique muscle injury and will be out for the remainder of the regular season.
The Los Angeles Lakers announced that Austin Reaves will miss the remainder of the regular season after being diagnosed with a Grade 2 left oblique muscle injury.
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If Luka Doncic’s injury wasn’t enough, JJ Redick has now put the Lakers in dire straits with a worrying update on two more players. The Lakers were flying in March as they reclaimed the third seed in the Western Conference.
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The Los Angeles Lakers are entering an era of uncertainty. After Luka Doncic’s Grade II hamstring injury, he will miss the playoffs. Unfortunately, trouble isn’t coming to an end for the team.
So, now what? It’s the uncomfortable question that Lakers fans have or will come to this weekend in the aftermath of both a blowout loss to the Thunder and, more importantly, the loss of Luka Dončić to a Grade 2 hamstring strain.
Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Doncic has been ruled out indefinitely with a left hamstring injury. Because of the injury setback, the Slovenian guard will miss the rest of the regular season and faces uncertainty about his return beyond that.
Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Doncic had been playing at an MVP level, but disaster struck in Thursday’s loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder. Doncic was forced out of the game due to a left hamstring injury, and an MRI later revealed a Grade 2 strain that will keep him out for the remainder of the 2025-26 regular season and potentially beyond.
The Los Angeles Lakers just took a 139-96 beating from the Oklahoma City Thunder, with Luka Doncic leaving in the third quarter with a left hamstring injury.
Well, that escalated quickly. The Lakers had been rolling. Sixteen wins in 18 games. Luka Doncic playing like an MVP. Everything trending the right way.