{"id":494205,"date":"2026-04-24T22:04:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=494205"},"modified":"2026-04-24T22:04:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:04:01","slug":"austin-reaves-targets-game-3-return-with-game-4-as-fallback-if-warmups-do-not-go-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/austin-reaves-targets-game-3-return-with-game-4-as-fallback-if-warmups-do-not-go-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Reaves targets Game 3 return, with Game 4 as fallback if warmups do not go well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2287\" data-end=\"2645\"><strong data-start=\"2287\" data-end=\"2304\">Austin Reaves<\/strong> is targeting a return in <strong data-start=\"2330\" data-end=\"2340\">Game 3<\/strong> of the series between the <strong data-start=\"2367\" data-end=\"2389\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2394\" data-end=\"2413\">Houston Rockets<\/strong>. According to the latest update attributed to <strong data-start=\"2460\" data-end=\"2468\">ESPN<\/strong>, Reaves plans to try to play tonight, but if he cannot get through warmups, the expectation is that he would return in <strong data-start=\"2588\" data-end=\"2598\">Game 4<\/strong> instead.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2647\" data-end=\"2929\">The latest reporting had already pointed in that direction. Reaves was <strong data-start=\"2718\" data-end=\"2757\">upgraded to questionable for Game 3<\/strong>, the clearest sign yet that he is nearing a comeback after missing the opening playoff games because of a <strong data-start=\"2864\" data-end=\"2890\">Grade 2 oblique strain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2931\" data-end=\"3262\">It would be a significant boost for the Lakers, even with the team already holding a <strong data-start=\"3016\" data-end=\"3028\">2-0 lead<\/strong> in the series. Reaves\u2019 return would give <strong data-start=\"3070\" data-end=\"3083\">JJ Redick<\/strong> another major backcourt option at a time when <strong data-start=\"3130\" data-end=\"3145\">Luka Doncic<\/strong> is still sidelined and Los Angeles continues to manage its rotation carefully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers guard plans to try to play tonight against the Houston Rockets<\/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-494205","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\/494205","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=494205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494205\/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=494205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494205"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=494205"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=494205"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=494205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}