Luka Doncic, Austin Reaves joins LeBron in the lateral line with injuries when the Lakers receive Bucks

Los Angeles (AP) – Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves are sitting with right ankle sprains when the Lakers receive the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday night in the sixth game of Los Angeles in eight days.

The Lakers announced the decision to rest to Doncic and reissued with their fellow injured holders LeBron James and Rui Hachimura about six hours before the notice against the Bucks.

The Lakers also declared that Dorian Finney-Smith Rotation players (left ankle) and Vanderbilt (right groin tension) are doubtful to play against Milwaukee. That means that Los Angeles will be without their four best scorers and could be without five of the first six when the Bucks visit.

Los Angeles is in a brutal section of their schedule with 20 games in a period of five weeks. The Lakers They have won three consecutive home games During the previous four days, but they also have six more games in the last 10 days of March after receiving Milwaukee.

Doncic scored 31 points and Reaves had 22 in the victory of the Lakers over Denver on Wednesday night.

Los Angeles has won nine consecutive houses since February 19 and 16 of the 17 games at home in general.

Doncic has played through his persistent ankle injury, but also He sat last Friday at Denver To rest the problem. Reaves had not lost a game since March 4 despite its own ankle injury.

James will miss his seventh consecutive game with an injury to the groin, while Hachimura has not played since February 27 due to a knee injury.

The schedule already full of people from Los Angeles this month is even worse because The Lakers beat San Antonio On Monday in a rescheduled game from January due to forest fires that devastated parts of the southern California. This reprogramming meant that the Lakers are playing five games at home in a period of seven days this week before starting a road trip in Orlando on Monday.