{"id":491376,"date":"2026-04-05T08:26:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=491376"},"modified":"2026-04-05T08:26:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:26:58","slug":"los-angeles-lakers-lose-austin-reaves-too-grade-2-oblique-injury-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/los-angeles-lakers-lose-austin-reaves-too-grade-2-oblique-injury-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers lose Austin Reaves too: Grade 2 oblique injury confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1930\" data-end=\"2281\">Another major setback has hit the <strong data-start=\"1964\" data-end=\"1986\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong>: <strong data-start=\"1988\" data-end=\"2005\">Austin Reaves<\/strong> will be out for the remainder of the regular season after Saturday\u2019s exams revealed a <strong data-start=\"2092\" data-end=\"2130\">Grade 2 left oblique muscle injury<\/strong>. The issue began during the loss to <strong data-start=\"2167\" data-end=\"2184\">Oklahoma City<\/strong>, a game he still managed to finish despite the discomfort.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2283\" data-end=\"2602\">According to ESPN, Reaves is expected to miss <strong data-start=\"2329\" data-end=\"2342\">4-6 weeks<\/strong>, although the team did not provide an official return timetable. It is another huge blow for the Lakers, who had already lost <strong data-start=\"2469\" data-end=\"2484\">Luka Doncic<\/strong> through at least the end of the regular season because of his hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2604\" data-end=\"2975\">Even with the roster short-handed, coach <strong data-start=\"2645\" data-end=\"2658\">JJ Redick<\/strong> said the mission remains securing the <strong data-start=\"2697\" data-end=\"2723\">No. 3 seed in the West<\/strong> and getting ready for the playoffs. Los Angeles still holds an edge over <strong data-start=\"2797\" data-end=\"2830\">Denver, Houston and Minnesota<\/strong>, but the closing stretch has clearly become much more difficult without two of its main offensive engines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Luka Doncic, the Los Angeles Lakers will also be without Austin Reaves for the rest of the regular season<\/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-491376","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","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491376","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=491376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491376\/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=491376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491376"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=491376"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=491376"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=491376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}