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Austin Reaves goes off for career-high 45 points in wire-to-wire win over Pacers

February 8, 2025 by Hoops Hype

Dave McMenamin: The Lakers hit the 50-game mark with a 31-19 record by beating Indy 124-117 on Saturday. LAL’s now won 11 out of 13 games. With LeBron & Luka sitting out, Austin Reaves scored a career-high 45 points on 14-of-25 shooting. AR is the 19th undrafted player in history to top 40
Source: Twitter @mcten

What’s the buzz on Twitter?

StatMuse @statmuse
Austin Reaves has as many 45-point games as Magic Johnson. pic.x.com/1p58U7YmMV – 6:59 PM

Khobi Price @khobi_price
Final: Lakers 124, Pacers 117.
Austin Reaves with a career-high 45 points to go with 7 assists and 7 rebounds, leading the LeBron and Luka-less LAL to its fifth straight win and 11th in their last 13 games.
Rui Hachimura: 24p/94. Gabe Vincent: 12p/7a. Jordan Goodwin: 10p/4r. – 6:55 PM
StatMuse @statmuse
Austin Reaves tonight:
45 PTS (career-high)
7 REB
7 AST
3 STL
13/13 FT
The Lakers are 3-1 without LeBron this season. pic.x.com/pDyrSLbNN4 – 6:54 PM

Dave McMenamin @mcten
The Lakers hit the 50-game mark with a 31-19 record by beating Indy 124-117 on Saturday. LAL’s now won 11 out of 13 games. With LeBron & Luka sitting out, Austin Reaves scored a career-high 45 points on 14-of-25 shooting. AR is the 19th undrafted player in history to top 40 – 6:53 PM
Mike Trudell @LakersReporter
Austin Reaves becomes the first Laker to join Kobe, LeBron and AD in the last 20 years to score 45+ points.
Perhaps Luka Doncic will be next. – 6:53 PM
Mike Trudell @LakersReporter
Austin Reaves hit the 41-point mark with a slick dribble move that got him to his right hand at the rim, as he continues to improve upon his new career-high. – 6:41 PM
Dave McMenamin @mcten
Austin Reaves scores on a layup high off the glass to give him 41 points. A new career high and the second straight Laker to have 40 in a game after LeBron James’ 42 against GSW on Thursday. – 6:40 PM
Khobi Price @khobi_price
Austin Reaves with the first 40-point game of his career, reaching 41 with that layup. – 6:39 PM
Mike Trudell @LakersReporter
Austin Reaves, doing everything today, just took a charge on Siakim to stop a fast break off LA’s turnover.
The Pacers challenged the call, however, and won it with Reaves having a foot on the restricted circle. Pacers ball out of bounds, down 113-100 with 4:51 left. – 6:34 PM
Scott Agness @ScottAgness
Pacers are getting cooked at the rim. Seems like the Lakers are able to get to the basket and score whenever they want.
And Austin Reaves has gone off – a career-high 39pts and still 8mins left.
Pacers got to within 4pts in the 3Q, but have mostly trailed by double digits. – 6:24 PM
Mike Trudell @LakersReporter
The new career-high of 39 points for Austin Reaves comes off a transition dunk, after he picked off a Pacer pass and sprinted ahead of the pack.
He’s 12 of 20 from the field, 4 of 6 from 3 and 11 of 11 at the FT line. – 6:22 PM
Khobi Price @khobi_price
Austin Reaves sets a new career-high of 39 points with that two-handed dunk, giving the Lakers a 108-93 lead over the Pacers. – 6:22 PM
Mike Trudell @LakersReporter
Indiana’s 30 made free throws are the most LA have allowed this season. Previous was Washington with 28.
They lead 106-93 with 8 minutes to play, nonetheless, with Austin Reaves up to 37 points and 6 assists. – 6:20 PM
Dave McMenamin @mcten
Austin Reaves is putting on a show. He’s up to 37 points on 11-for-19 shooting early in the 4th Q – one off his career high – 6:19 PM
Mike Trudell @LakersReporter
Austin Reaves is approaching his career high of 38 points, hitting a 3 to start the 4th Q that has him up to 34, with the Lakers up 97-86. – 6:16 PM
Dave McMenamin @mcten
The Lakers lead the Pacers 66-50 at the half. Austin Reaves 20p; Rui 16p 8r; Vincent 10p 5a; Jaxson 7p 10r. – 5:17 PM
Mike Trudell @LakersReporter
With the Pacers trying to cut into LA’s lead, Rui Hachimura hit a 3, and Austin Reaves a contested 2 in the paint to push the margin back to 22 at 64-42 late in the 2nd Q.
Reaves has 20 points. – 5:13 PM
Jovan Buha @jovanbuha
Lakers’ starters vs. Indiana:
Austin Reaves
Gabe Vincent
Dorian Finney-Smith
Rui Hachimura
Jaxson Hayes
Record as starters: 0-0 – 3:35 PM
Dave McMenamin @mcten
Austin Reaves is cleared to play today, the Lakers say. – 3:19 PM
Mike Trudell @LakersReporter
JJ Redick said Austin Reaves (elbow) will give it a go in warm ups to see if he’s able to play tonight.
Redick acknowledged that in an ideal world, LA would have LeBron, Doncic and Williams (trade still pending) available for Monday’s game. – 2:25 PM
Khobi Price @khobi_price
Austin Reaves remains questionable for today vs. Indiana.
Trade is still pending for Mark Williams, per JJ Redick. – 2:21 PM
Scott Agness @ScottAgness
Myles Turner has been ruled out for Saturday at Lakers due to neck strain suffered in 1Q v Clippers.
Luka, Maxi Kleber, Christian Wood are also out. LeBron, Austin Reaves, and Mark Williams are questionable. – 8:08 PM

More on this storyline

Mike Trudell: LeBron called Austin Reaves last night, letting him know he’d be out today, as JJ Redick relayed. Redick then told Reaves pregame that he’d probably need something like 38-8-8 for LA to win. Reaves responded with 45-7-7, plus 3 steals. -via Twitter @LakersReporter / February 8, 2025
Mike Trudell: Austin Reaves has been upgraded to available, and Mark Williams downgraded to out. -via Twitter @LakersReporter / February 8, 2025
Dan Woike: Luka Doncic officially will not play for the Lakers Saturday against Indiana. Mark Williams is “questionable” along with LeBron James (ankle) and Austin Reaves (elbow). Reaves’ elbow was fairly swollen postgame Thursday. -via x.com / February 7, 2025

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