{"id":482018,"date":"2026-02-02T15:59:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=482018"},"modified":"2026-02-02T15:59:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:59:58","slug":"los-angeles-lakerss-austin-reaves-on-the-verge-of-returning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/los-angeles-lakerss-austin-reaves-on-the-verge-of-returning\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers&#8217;s Austin Reaves on the verge of returning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1567\" data-end=\"1824\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/span><\/span> are nearing Austin Reaves\u2019 return after he missed 19 games with a strained left calf.<br data-start=\"1690\" data-end=\"1693\" \/>He was close to playing Sunday against the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">New York Knicks<\/span><\/span>, but was downgraded to out shortly before tip-off.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1826\" data-end=\"1988\">Redick described the situation as \u201cday-to-day,\u201d with no firm timeline attached.<br data-start=\"1905\" data-end=\"1908\" \/>The Lakers\u2019 target is Tuesday in Brooklyn, provided Reaves is fully comfortable.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1990\" data-end=\"2163\">Before the injury, Reaves was averaging 26.6 points, 5.2 rebounds and 6.3 assists.<br data-start=\"2072\" data-end=\"2075\" \/>He was also shooting 50.7% from the field and 36.5% from three on 7.4 attempts per game.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2165\" data-end=\"2243\">Source: <em data-start=\"2173\" data-end=\"2196\">ESPN (Dave McMenamin)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Reaves is close to coming back from a left calf strain<\/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-482018","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\/482018","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=482018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482018\/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=482018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482018"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=482018"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=482018"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=482018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}