JJ Redick wants to move on after Mavs contradict his claim on MRI error on Austin Reaves

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Lakers coach JJ Redick says he just wants to move forward after the Dallas Mavericks contradicted his contention that their medical staff mistakenly conducted an MRI on Austin Reaves last weekend.

Reaves will be out for the rest of the regular season after straining his oblique during the Lakers’ loss to Oklahoma City last Thursday. He was visited in Dallas, where the Lakers had subsequently traveled for their next game, by the Mavericks’ medical team in a courtesy typically extended by home NBA teams to their visitors.

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At the Lakers’ practice in Dallas on Saturday, Redick said the Mavs’ medical team “scanned the wrong area” and had to perform two MRIs to identify Reaves’ Grade 2 left oblique strain.

The Mavericks released a statement to DLLS Sports on Tuesday saying “their medical team followed standard imaging protocols based on the information provided at the time. There were no errors in the scan performed.”

When Redick was asked why he said otherwise before the Lakers hosted the Thunder on Tuesday, he was brief.

“Look, I think we finally got the picture we needed,” Redick said. “Obviously very grateful, because it’s happened throughout the season, every time the home team has been accommodating to us, just as we would be to them. And we’ll move forward.”

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The Lakers also lost Luka Doncic for the remainder of the regular season during that loss to Oklahoma City. The NBA’s leading scorer has a Grade 2 strain in his left hamstring.

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