Austin Reaves exited the Los Angeles Lakers’ sport in opposition to the visiting Houston Rockets on Thursday evening because of left calf soreness, and he’s headed for MRI examination on Friday, in accordance with The Athletic and ESPN.
Reaves, the group’s second-leading scorer this season behind Luka Doncic, scored 12 factors on 5-of-8 capturing in quarter-hour in the course of the first half.
Reaves missed a 3-point try on the first-half buzzer, then he didn’t come out of the locker room after intermission.
The Lakers trailed 63-53 at halftime and fell behind even additional in the course of the third quarter en path to a 119-96 defeat.
Reaves is averaging 26.6 factors, 6.3 assists and 5.2 rebounds by 23 video games (22 begins) in his fifth NBA season, all with Los Angeles. He missed three video games earlier this month because of a pressure to the identical calf, and he was in his second sport again.
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