Austin Reaves revealed the Lakers inspiration to beat the Celtics

On Thursday night the LA Lakers did the unthinkable, without their two superstars they went to Boston and faced the Celtics, the current number one team in the NBA, and beat them, the best player for the purple and gold was Austin Reaves who scored 32 points and had a career-high on 3-pointers scoring seven of them.

The win over Boston is huge for the Lakers, not only did they get to defeat their biggest rival in the franchise history, but got to break a 2-game losing streak following the painful loss to the Atlanta Hawks that created a lot of controversy after their players were busy on social media.

Following the loss to the Hawks, LeBron said that he didn't have a message for his teammates and he was just hoping for them to give their job and their 100%. Then Austin Reaves and the rest of the team played to win vs. the Celtics without LeBron James and Anthony Davis.

Reaves had a career-high seven shots from 3, and led the team with 32 points to take the win, in the post-game presser gave the key for the victory inspired by LeBron: “That’s a great message coming from the greatest player ever in my opinion…we gotta go out there and compete at 110% every game”

The Lakers have lost Jarred Vanderbilt for several weeks

ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski recently announced that Vanderbilt is expected to miss several weeks with a right foot injury, now has added: "There’s more evaluation that needs to be done on right mid-foot area for Vanderbilt and possibility his absence could be more significant than several weeks, sources said. Vanderbilt’s played some of his best ball as a Laker lately and certainly is one of team’s best defenders."