Los Angeles Lakers @ Sacramento Kings
Sunday, October 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM ET
Golden 1 Center, Sacramento, CA | Game ID: 22500113
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
SAC 27 35 28 30 120LAL 36 26 33 32 127
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Reaves has career night as Lakers beat Kings without Luka, 127-120
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- — Austin Reaves scored a career-high 51 points including four clutch free throws in the final 32 seconds, and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Sacramento Kings 127-120 without Luka Doncic on Sunday.
Reaves made 12 of 22 from the field and sank six 3-pointers including the 500th of his career. Reaves also had nine assists and 11 rebounds.
Reaves is just the fourth player in the last 40 years with at least 50 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists in a game, joining Doncic, Russell Westbrook (twice) and James Harden (twice). The last time a Lakers player had 50-plus points, 11-plus rebounds and nine-plus assists was Feb. 13, 1963, when Elgin Baylor had 50 points, 15 rebounds and 11 assists against the Boston Celtics .
DeAndre Ayton had 22 points and 15 rebounds for the Lakers. Rui Hachimura scored 18 points.
Doncic was ruled out before the game due to a sprained finger on his left hand and a bruised lower left leg. He’s expected to be reevaluated in about a week, according to the Lakers.
That’s another blow for Los Angeles, which isn’t expected to have LeBron James (sciatica) back until mid-November.
Against the Kings it hardly mattered the way Reaves played.
Reaves scored 15 points in the fourth quarter after the Kings took a four-point lead, including a clutch jumper that gave the Lakers a 122-116 lead with 1:48 remaining.
Zach LaVine scored 32 points to lead six players in double figures for the Kings.
DeMar DeRozan scored 21 points, Domantas Sabonis had 10 points and 14 rebounds, while Dennis Schroder added 18 points and 12 assists.
Even without their top two scoring options, the Lakers got going early and took a 10-point lead in the first quarter.
Hachimura had 10 points in the first nine minutes of the game while Ayton and Marcus Smart each scored seven points as Los Angeles led 31-21.
The Kings made seven 3s in the second quarter – three from Westbrook – to tie the game at halftime.
Up next Lakers: Face the Trail Blazers in Portland on Monday.
Kings: Play the Thunder in Oklahoma City on Tuesday,
Who is who
the initials in the Players column
SACDC D. Cardwell
DC D. Carter
DD D. DeRozan
DE D. Eubanks
DS D. Sabonis
DS D. Schröder
DŠ D. Šarić
KE K. Ellis
MM M. Monk
RW R. Westbrook
SC Schroder
ZL Z. LaVine
LALAR A. Reaves
CM C. Mañon
DA D. Ayton
DK D. Knecht
GV G. Vincent
JL J. LaRavia
JV J. Vanderbilt
MS M. Smart
RH R. Hachimura
SAC/LAL the team itself, not a player
-- the feed named nobody
What
What happened
the codes in the Events column
M2 / M3 made 2 / made 3
X2 / X3 missed 2 / missed 3
FT / X1 free throw made / missed
AST assist
OR / DR offensive / defensive rebound
STL steal
BLK block
TO turnover
FL foul
OF offensive foul — ends the possession
VIOL violation
JUMP jump ball
TM timeout
IR instant replay
HE heave at the buzzer, filed to the team
Where
Where a shot came from
the middle field of M3.LW.25
RM at the rim inside 4 ft
RC right corner
RW right wing
SO straight on
LW left wing
LC left corner
M3.LW.25 made 3, left wing, 25 ft
X2.RM.01 missed 2, at the rim, 1 ft
When
When it happened
the Offset column
one number per event, in the Events order:
whole seconds from the start of the
possession to that event
Events FL X3.RC.23 OR M2.RM.01
Offset 0 18 22 24
the foul opens the possession at 0s;
the putback ends it at 24s, which is
the possession's own Dur