October 28, 2025—The Los Angeles Lakers’ 2025-26 season has been a veritable emotional odyssey, a tapestry of transcendent triumphs and trying tribulations, and Sunday night’s 127-120 stunner against the Sacramento Kings encapsulated the chaos in crystalline fashion: Austin Reaves unleashed a career-high 51 points in a virtuoso virtuoso that vaulted the Lakers to their third consecutive victory, only for the jubilation to be jarred by the sobering update on Luka Dončić’s worsening injury