NBA Season 2025-26

[Phantom255x]

Speaking of the Lakers on this page, Reaves may miss a while, more than a month. That's a tough loss for them, he's been great alongside Doncic to start the season.

https://x.com/ShamsCharania/status/2004729613759775111

Los Angeles Lakers guard Austin Reaves has been diagnosed with a grade 2 left gastrocnemius strain and will be reevaluated in four weeks.

This is where my med school knowledge helps lol, the gastrocnemius is an important calf muscle, more so the upper half while soleus is lower half. It's basically a pulled muscle, maybe partially torn. Grade 2 is a 4-6 week timeline, although he's got to be careful because calf injuries are obviously tricky, one wrong move or major setback and it could be Achilles next.

Honestly he could end up missing 6+ weeks overall. Makes life harder for LAL.

[slamtheking]

Speaking of the Lakers on this page, Reaves may miss a while, more than a month. That's a tough loss for them, he's been great alongside Doncic to start the season.

https://x.com/ShamsCharania/status/2004729613759775111

Los Angeles Lakers guard Austin Reaves has been diagnosed with a grade 2 left gastrocnemius strain and will be reevaluated in four weeks.

This is where my med school knowledge helps lol, the gastrocnemius is an important calf muscle, more so the upper half while soleus is lower half. It's basically a pulled muscle, maybe partially torn. Grade 2 is a 4-6 week timeline, although he's got to be careful because calf injuries are obviously tricky, one wrong move or major setback and it could be Achilles next.

Honestly he could end up missing 6+ weeks overall. Makes life harder for LAL.

is it wrong that brought a smile to my face.

[slightly biased bias fan]

I saw an interesting Austin Reaves comparison online recently. They basically called Reaves a Zach LaVine clone.

There may be something to that, as both are roughly the same height, both are score first shooting guards, both are extremely talented offensively and both are turnstiles defensively.

If you look at both players breakout seasons, there are similarities.

2020-21 LaVine: 27.4 PPG, 5.0 RPG, 4.9 AST

2025-26 Reaves: 26.6 PPG, 5.2 RPG, 6.3 AST