{"id":241994,"date":"2026-05-06T05:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/austin-reaves-endures-historically-poor-playoff-shooting-game-in-lakers-loss\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T05:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:02:38","slug":"austin-reaves-endures-historically-poor-playoff-shooting-game-in-lakers-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/austin-reaves-endures-historically-poor-playoff-shooting-game-in-lakers-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Reaves endures historically poor playoff shooting game in Lakers&#8217; loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Without a co-star to rely on, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/players\/lebron_james\/4544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LeBron James<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/los_angeles_lakers\/89\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> suffered a 108-90 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/oklahoma_city_thunder\/85\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> in the first game of their second-round series.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, unlike most of the first round, James did have one on the court with him, just one who could never get going.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Austin Reaves sunk only three shots all game long\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Unable to provide James and his team what they needed, Austin Reaves only put up eight points in the game. Reaves&#8217; eight-point output also came off a historically poor shooting night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reaves, a 49.0% shooter from the regular season, connected on only 3-of-16 shots from the field and went 0-of-5 from three. His 18.8% shooting clip became the single lowest of any Laker in a playoff game in the last 35 years (minimum 15 field-goal attempts).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He did help out with six rebounds and five assists, but he was a -10 overall.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/austin_reaves_endures_historically_poor_playoff_shooting_game_in_lakers_loss\/s1_13132_43811376\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without a co-star to rely on, LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers suffered a 108-90 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder in the first game of their second-round series.\u00a0 However, unlike most of the first round, James did have one on the court with him, just one who could never get going.\u00a0 Austin Reaves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-241994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}