INSIDE THE VISITING locker room of the Target Center in downtown Minneapolis, Lakers wing Austin Reaves had just been presented with his second game ball in four nights.

It was late in the evening on Oct. 29. A short time earlier, with seconds left in regulation, he had split a Wolves double-team at the top of the key and sunk a floater to steal the game for the Lakers.

With ice bags wrapped around both of his knees, and his feet submerged in an ice bath, Reaves looked up from his phone and turned to teammate Jarred Vanderbilt to present a simple, but perhaps illustrative, question.

"What day is it?" he asked.

No one could fault Reaves for losing his bearings. It had been a dream week in which he scored a career-high 51 points in a win in Sacramento; dropped 41 points in L.A. on t

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