"Especially on a night where you don't have Luka, you don't have Bron, you don't have Jaxson [Hayes], you got to go out there and be big for the team,"
"I wasn't in my head thinking, 'You got to go score 50.' It was, 'Do whatever you can do to help the team win.'"
"I was telling AR, like, s---, we're going to need 50 from you tonight,"
"As you can see, he did it."
Austin Reaves scored a career-high 51 points, added 11 rebounds and 9 assists as the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Sacramento Kings 127-120 in Sacramento. Reaves celebrated with a water-bottle shower, marking the second major celebration of his NBA career after a rookie-season, buzzer-beating 3-pointer in Dallas. LeBron James and Luka Doncic were unavailable for the game; Doncic was ruled out with a left finger sprain and a left lower-leg contusion and will be reevaluated in about a week. Doncic texted Reaves urging him to score 60, and teammate Jarred Vanderbilt had told Reaves they would need 50. Vanderbilt contributed 9 points, 5 rebounds and 2 steals off the bench.
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