Austin Reaves dropped 51 points on Sunday night to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to an upset win over the Sacramento Kings, and he’ll look to continue his strong

The Los Angeles Lakers (1-1) host the Portland Trail Blazers (1-1) at crypto.com Arena on Monday.

The Blazers are an explosive young team that has played some solid basketball to start the year, even in the midst of losing their head coach to gambling allegations, with a 1-2 record. Like the Lakers, they are also on the second night of a back-to-back after a 114-107 loss to the Clippers on Sunday.

Sacramento was a far less formidable foe than this rising Portland squad, even if it has lost head coach Chauncey Billups to an FBI indictment for the indefinite future. The Trail Blazers are far more cohesive in their construction than the Kings, and are an athletic, defensive juggernaut where Sacramento is anything but.

Austin Reaves averaged a career-best 20.2 points per game last season, and he ramped it up to 22.8 points per game from February 1 through the end of the regular season. In three games played with Luka and without LeBron, he posted totals of 28, 30, and 22.