Ramona Shelburne May 11, 2026, 07:00 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN.com Spent seven years at the Los Angeles Daily News THERE ARE HYPERBARIC chambers and then there is the giant hyperbaric chamber at the UCLA Medical Center. Lakers star Austin Reaves spent the better part of four weeks in this enormous tube as he tried to recover from a Grade 2 oblique muscle tear he had suffered April 2 during a game in Oklahoma City. Initially doctors told Reaves he would be out 4-6 weeks with the injury, but probably on the longer end of that timeline. The Lakers initially assumed he would be out until the conference finals, team sources told ESPN, but Reaves was determined to get back for at least some of the Lakers' playoff run. "I left my house every day around 7:30 in the morning to get treatment and didn't come home until about 8 at night," Reaves told ESPN. "I was going crazy trying to get back. ...…