LOS ANGELES — The Dallas Mavericks pushed back Wednesday against Los Angeles Lakers coach JJ Redick's assertion that the team's medical staff scanned the wrong area when administering an MRI for Lakers guard Austin Reaves over the weekend.
In a statement first issued to DLLS Sports and later provided to ESPN, the Mavericks said their medical personnel "followed standard imaging protocols based on the information provided at the time" and added, "There was no error in the scan performed."
Redick, speaking after a Lakers practice Saturday on Southern Methodist University's campus in Dallas, said Reaves required two MRIs to identify a Grade 2 left oblique strain and blamed the initial scan's execution on the Mavericks. "I don't know where the chain of command lies with Dallas imaging, but they scanned the wrong area," Redick said then. "So [the mistake was] not on our end. We made it explicit what was supposed to be scanned, but they scanned the wrong area."
A Lakers spokesperson declined to comment to ESPN on Tuesday about the sequence of events surrounding the MRI. Redick later took a softer tone before L.A.'s game versus Oklahoma City, saying, "In the end, we got the image we ne
