Getty Head coach Ime Udoka of the Houston Rockets is ready for Austin Reaves to return to the Lakers for Game 5. On Wednesday night in Los Angeles, with the Lakers bringing a 3-1 lead in their first-round series against the Houston Rockets , the good news the team had been waiting for over the past week or so finally arrived: Austin Reaves is ready to return to action, 27 days after he injured his oblique in a loss to the Thunder just ahead of the NBA playoffs. That’s a big boost for a Lakers