Mavericks dispute Lakers' claim that Austin Reaves' MRI was botched
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One day after Luka Doncic was diagnosed with a Grade 2 hamstring strain on Friday, Austin Reaves received an injury diagnosis of a strained oblique. Both Los Angeles Lakers stars are expected to miss at least the next few weeks of action, and depending on how the playoffs go for the team, they could be done for the season.
Reaves underwent an MRI in Texas a day before the Lakers' 134-128 loss to the Dallas Mavericks. There was one problem, however: The MRI was done on the wrong side of his body, and thus a second MRI needed to be done.
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The Mavericks issued a statement in which they disputed the Lakers' claim that the first image was done incorrectly, per ESPN.
"Our medical team followed standard imaging protocols based on the information provided at the time," the Mavericks said in a statement first issued to DLLS Sports on Tuesday and later provided to ESPN. "There was no error in the scan performed."
Lakers coach JJ Redick made it clear that the wrong part of Reaves' body was initially scanned.
"I don't know where the chain of command lies with Dallas imaging, but they scanned the wrong area," Redick said. "So [the mistake was] not on our end. We made it explicit what was supposed to be scanned, but they scanned the wrong area."
Los Angeles had won 16 of its previous 18 games and was starting to look like a team no one wanted to face in the playoffs before both injuries were sustained during a 139-96 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday. Since then, it has dropped from third to fourth place in the Western Conference, and its outlook for the postseason has gone from cautiously optimistic to very gloomy.
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