Austin Reaves scores career-high points as Lakers outlast Kings in NBA

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Austin Reaves poured successful 51 points arsenic the Los Angeles Lakers triumph against Sacramento without Luka Doncic and Lebron James.

Published On 27 Oct 2025

Austin Reaves exploded for a career-high 51 points, Deandre Ayton complemented 22 points with a game-high 15 rebounds and the Los Angeles Lakers, playing without injured stars Luka Doncic and LeBron James, downed the big Sacramento Kings 127-120 connected Sunday night.

Taking the starring relation aft Doncic was a precocious scratch owed to digit and lower-leg injuries, Reaves surpassed his erstwhile NBA champion of 45 points acceptable past February against the Indiana Pacers.

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He besides recovered clip for 11 rebounds and 9 assists, missing what could person been his 4th vocation triple-double by a azygous assist.

Reaves drilled six 3-pointers, including 3 during a 4th fourth tally that allowed the Lakers to flip a four-point shortage into an 11-point lead.

Seeking a 2nd consecutive triumph aft a season-opening nonaccomplishment to Golden State, the Lakers trailed 101-97 aft a Domantas Sabonis 3-pointer with 9:50 remaining earlier scoring 20 of the game’s adjacent 25 points to widen into a 117-106 vantage astatine the 4:18 mark.

Reaves triggered the uprising with consecutive 3-pointers, past added a 3rd pursuing an Ayton hoop to implicit an 11-0 burst that produced a 108-101 lead.

Rui Hachimura added 2 hoops, Ayton different and Jake LaRavia a 3-pointer to decorativeness disconnected the flurry, which created a shortage from which the Kings ne'er afloat recovered.

Zach LaVine’s 3-pointer got the hosts arsenic adjacent arsenic 122-119 with inactive 1:30 to play, but Reaves kept the Kings astatine arm’s magnitude with 4 precocious escaped throws that capped a 21-for-22 nighttime astatine the line.

Getting 28 much opportunities, the Lakers outscored the Kings 41-12 from the stripe.

Hachimura finished with 18 points, portion LaRavia and Marcus Smart chipped successful with 11 apiece for the Lakers, who played a 3rd consecutive crippled without James, retired with a backmost issue.

LaVine paced Sacramento with 32 points, portion Sabonis (10 points, 14 rebounds) and Dennis Schroeder (18 points, 12 assists) posted double-doubles.

DeMar DeRozan added 21 points, Russell Westbrook 18 and Malik Monk 15 for the Kings, who mislaid contempt outscoring the visitors 54-24 from beyond the arc.

Wembanyama, Davis predominate successful Texas

In different fixtures connected Sunday, Victor Wembanyama totalled 31 points and 14 rebounds and keyed a precocious tally arsenic big San Antonio bushed Brooklyn 118-107 to enactment undefeated.

Anthony Davis had 25 points and 10 rebounds to pb Dallas to their archetypal triumph of the caller NBA play with a 139-129 triumph implicit visiting Toronto.

Kawhi Leonard scored 30 points with 10 rebounds and Ivica Zubac added 21 points with 8 boards arsenic Los Angeles won for the 2nd clip successful 2 location games with a 114-107 triumph implicit Portland.

Cade Cunningham had 25 points and 8 assists arsenic Detroit won its location opener, downing Boston 119-113.

Norman Powell scored 29 points to pb Miami to a home-opening 115-107 triumph implicit the New York Knicks.

Donovan Mitchell scored 10 of his 24 points successful the 4th fourth and Evan Mobley collected 23 points, 8 rebounds and six assists arsenic Cleveland won its location opener against Milwaukee 118-113.

LaMelo Ball scored 38 points arsenic portion of a triple-double, and Charlotte rode a immense 2nd fractional to a 139-113 roadworthy triumph implicit Washington.

Julius Randle scored 31 points and Minnesota weathered the aboriginal exit of injured prima Anthony Edwards to bushed winless Indiana successful Minneapolis 114-110.