Lakers Beat the Bucks 123-112 for a Seventh Straight Win, but Austin Reaves Leaves With a Heel Injury
Luka Doncic scored 32 and the Lakers became the league's first team to 11 wins. The cost came in the second half: Reaves out with a left heel injury in the third, and a Doncic ankle scare in the fourth.
MILWAUKEE — The Los Angeles Lakers are the first team in the league to 11 wins, and Wednesday night in Milwaukee showed both why they are rolling and how thin the margin under the roll is. The Lakers beat the Bucks 123-112 for their seventh straight win, Reuters reported, behind Luka Doncic's 32 points — 16 of them in the first quarter — and 23 from Sandro Mamukelashvili.
Los Angeles led just 30-28 after one, then won the second quarter 31-22 to lead 61-50 at halftime as Milwaukee shot 2-for-11 from three-point range, and won the third 33-23 behind 7-for-11 shooting from beyond the arc and eight points from Matisse Thybulle. Walker Kessler added 10 points and a game-high 11 rebounds. For Milwaukee, Tyler Herro — back from the knee injury that cost him one game — led the Bucks with 27 points and seven assists, and Jaime Jaquez Jr. added 25 points and five rebounds in the Bucks' eighth straight loss, their ninth double-digit defeat of the season against a single win.
The win came with two holds of breath. Austin Reaves, who scored 18, left the game in the third period with a left heel injury and did not return. Then in the fourth, Doncic sank a long 3-pointer while being fouled by Kyle Kuzma and was holding his ankle after the make; he hit the free throw and came out of the game with Los Angeles up 24 and 4:25 to play, Reuters reported. The report carries no further update on either player, and the desk claims none — their statuses belong to the Lakers' next injury report.
The Lakers have now won on four of their past five visits to Milwaukee. They leave with the league's best win count and two ankles and a heel to check before the next one — the part of a seven-game winning streak that does not show in the standings.
