{"id":475860,"date":"2025-12-26T08:13:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T07:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=475860"},"modified":"2025-12-26T08:13:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T07:13:02","slug":"los-angeles-lakers-austin-reaves-exits-at-halftime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/los-angeles-lakers-austin-reaves-exits-at-halftime\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers&#8217; Austin Reaves exits at halftime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1660\" data-end=\"1939\">The <strong data-start=\"1678\" data-end=\"1719\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/span><\/span><\/strong> lost <strong data-start=\"1725\" data-end=\"1766\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Austin Reaves<\/span><\/span><\/strong> during their 119-96 Christmas Day defeat to the <strong data-start=\"1815\" data-end=\"1856\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Houston Rockets<\/span><\/span><\/strong>. Reaves was <strong data-start=\"1871\" data-end=\"1896\">ruled out at halftime<\/strong> with a sore left calf, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1941\" data-end=\"2247\">\u201c<strong data-start=\"1942\" data-end=\"1975\">Austin clearly felt something<\/strong>,\u201d coach <strong data-start=\"1984\" data-end=\"2025\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">JJ Redick<\/span><\/span><\/strong> said, noting the staff made the call as the Lakers left the locker room.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1941\" data-end=\"2247\">Reaves had recently missed three games with what L.A. called a mild left calf strain and returned Tuesday with 17 points in 22 minutes vs Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2249\" data-end=\"2552\">He had 12 points in 15 first-half minutes against Houston before exiting, and Marcus Smart replaced him to start the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2249\" data-end=\"2552\"><strong data-start=\"2383\" data-end=\"2424\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Luka Don\u010di\u0107<\/span><\/span><\/strong> advised patience: \u201c<strong data-start=\"2444\" data-end=\"2484\">Take your time\u2026 calves are dangerous<\/strong>,\u201d while Redick reiterated he believes Reaves should be an All-Star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Reaves was ruled out at halftime of the Lakers\u2019 119-96 Christmas loss to Houston with a sore left calf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[179],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-475860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-injury"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Los-Angeles-Lakers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475860"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=475860"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=475860"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=475860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}