On Saturday evening, the Los Angeles Lakers picked up their most thrilling win of the 2025-26 season with a home victory over the Denver Nuggets. Austin Reaves and Luka Doncic were both heroes of this game, with Reaves saving the day down the stretch of regulation to get the contest into overtime, and Doncic winning […] The post Lakers’ Austin Reaves, Luka Doncic react to mind-blowing game-saving play vs. Nuggets appeared first on ClutchPoints .
The Los Angeles Lakers didn’t just beat the Denver Nuggets on Saturday night; they outsmarted them. While Luka Doncic grabbed the headlines with his game-winning block, the reason the Lakers even had that lead was thanks to a high-IQ play by Austin Reaves and some veteran mentorship from Marcus Smart. With the game hanging in […] The post Lakers’ Marcus Smart gives props to Austin Reaves for game-saving play vs. Nuggets appeared first on ClutchPoints .
Luka Doncic described Austin Reaves’ late-game rebound and floater as “kind of amazing,” adding, “JJ told me to tell AR to miss right, so he missed left. So, it was a good play. That gave us a win basically.” He called the execution “perfection” and praised Reaves for maintaining focus under pressure. On the team’s […] The post ‘Perfection’: Luka Doncic praises Austin Reaves, LeBron in Lakers’ OT win appeared first on TalkBasket.net .
Trailing 118-116 with 5.2 seconds remaining in regulation, the Los Angeles Lakers knew Austin Reaves would intentionally miss his second free throw attempt against the Denver Nuggets on Saturday night. Recovering it himself to hit a game-tying floater with 1.9 seconds to go, propelling the Lakers to a vital 127-125 overtime victory, that was something else entirely. “Yeah, it’s the perfect miss,” Lakers forward LeBron James said.
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