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Los Angeles — Austin Reeves He returns from a nine game injury layoff on Wednesday night Los Angeles Lakers with an attempt to end their first-round playoff series Houston Rockets At game 5.
Reaves has been sidelined since April 2 with a strained oblique muscle, missing the Lakers’ final five games of the regular season and the first four games of the postseason. But Reaves returned to practice last week, and warmed up for the previous two games of the series in Houston before being sidelined.
Reeves was injured in the same game in which the NBA scoring champion Luka Doncic Strained his right hamstring. Doncic doesn’t seem close to a comeback just yet.
The Lakers won the first three games of the series without their top two scorers, but The Rockets took Game 4 to bring the series back to Los Angeles.
Reaves averaged 23.3 points, 5.5 assists and 4.7 rebounds this season, but played in just 51 games because of an oblique injury and a strained left cuff that sidelined him for 19 straight games from Christmas through February.
