Report: Austin Reaves rehabbed his oblique strain with the Dodgers

Ever since officially purchasing a majority share of the Los Angeles Lakers several months ago, Mark Walter has been revamping their front office. He has also, according to at least one report, been looking to model their front office after that of the Los Angeles Lakers, a team he has owned since 2012 and has made into Major League Baseball's model franchise. That has meant that the Lakers and Dodgers franchises have become intermingled a little.

According to a Yahoo Sports report written by Yaron Weitzman, when Austin Reaves was recovering from an oblique strain in April, he did so with the help of the Dodgers' resources. “Bolstering the performance staff appears to be [Andrew] Friedman’s and [Farhan] Zaidi’s other priority,” Weitzman wrote. “'We’re working in collaboration with some of the Dodgers folks to bring in a biomechanics lab,' [Rob] Pelinka told reporters.

Until then, players may have to get used to working with the baseball group at Dodger Stadium. That, according to two league sources, is what the Lakers told Austin Reaves to do while he was rehabbing from an oblique injury during the playoffs. ” One thing Walter has been looking to do with the Lakers is modernize their operations.

With their G League affiliate moving from UCLA Health Training Center in El Segundo to the Coachella Valley over an hour away in the desert, the franchise will have more space to utilize labs for biometrics, movement and recovery. Reaves suffered his oblique injury during a blowout loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on April 2, which was the same game where Luka Doncic sustained his season-ending hamstring strain. He was expected to miss roughly four to six weeks, but he returned for Game 5 of the first round of the playoffs versus the Houston Rockets on April 29.