JJ Redick reveals Lakers' efforts to get Austin Reaves back for NBA Playoffs

JJ Redick reveals Lakers' efforts to get Austin Reaves back for NBA Playoffs originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Los Angeles Lakers are in a very rough spot.

Their guard depth has suddenly vanished because both Austin Reaves and Luka Doncic went down with injuries. These two will be out for the remainder of the regular season. But, it looks like Coach JJ Redick has a plan so that he would be able to get at least one of them back in time for the NBA Playoffs.

Redick knows Lakers' data will help them get Reaves back for NBA Playoffs The Lakers are beginning to lose after not having both Doncic and Reaves. They have now suffered a horrific 139-96 blowout to the Oklahoma City Thunder and also dropped a 134-128 game to the tanking Dallas Mavericks . Both of these losses have raised concerns about how Coach Redick will face the challenges of the NBA Playoffs without his two best guards.

But, he does know that their medical staff would at least get Reaves back soon. The Lakers head coach did seem to worry at first but those faded away because he knew that Reaves will try to make it back, via Dan Woike of The Athletic. "I think, for both those guys, the nature of playing heavy minutes, that’s certainly a part of, like any equation when you’re trying to manage workloads.