The Los Angeles Lakers can be with out one of many NBA’s breakout stars this season for the foreseeable future.
Beginning guard Austin Reaves is anticipated to overlook one week as a result of a light left-calf pressure, the group introduced on Friday.
Reaves, 27, has missed simply three video games thus far, whereas averaging career-highs throughout the board. His 27.8 factors per sport rank eleventh within the NBA and are second on the Lakers, solely to MVP candidate Luka Doncic. In the meantime, Reaves’ 6.7 assists per sport rank twentieth throughout the league.
All of which has come whereas the undrafted guard has averaged a career-high 36.9 minutes per sport by means of 21 appearances — usually performing as L.A.’s go-to choice all through the sporadic absences of working mates Doncic and LeBron James.
Reaves is taking a career-high 16.9 field-goal makes an attempt per sport and has maintained a powerful 66.5 per cent true taking pictures by means of that uptick in scoring quantity.
He final performed within the Lakers’ NBA Cup quarterfinal loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday, logging 15 factors, eight rebounds and 7 assists in just below 40 minutes of motion.
Reaves’ robust play has helped Los Angeles to a 17-7 regular-season document, good for fourth place within the Western Convention.
The Lakers return to motion on Sunday, visiting the Phoenix Suns to tip off a four-game West Coast street journey.
