LOS ANGELES — After sitting out for most of the home Lakers’ win over the Clippers on Friday, starting guard Austin Reaves won’t play in tonight’s rematch with the Clippers because of a calf injury.
The Lakers ruled out Reaves, along with two-way guard Jordan Goodwin (sprained right ankle), because of a strained right calf.
Reaves left Friday’s game late in the first quarter, heading to the locker room after being subbed out as part of his normal rotation pattern after scoring six points and blocking a shot in nine minutes.
The team said during the second quarter that Reaves would not return because of right calf soreness.
“Don’t have anything other than he was experiencing some tightness in the calf, some soreness,” Coach JJ Redick said after the game on Friday, which was the second night of a back-to-back set. “Was held out as a precaution.”
ESPN’s Shams Charania first reported on Saturday that Reaves’ status will be day-to-day after an MRI on the right calf didn’t reveal a serious injury.
Reaves entered Sunday playing in 53 of the Lakers’ 58 games.
He sat out of five games in early December because of a bruised left pelvis.
Reaves is averaging 19.1 points, six assists and 4.2 rebounds this season – one of 15 players to meet the 19 point-six assist-four rebound statistical threshold, along with Lakers teammates Luka Doncic and LeBron James.
Doncic (left calf injury management) and James (left foot injury management) were listed as questionable for the rematch against the Clippers as of Sunday afternoon.
More to come on this story.
