AUSTIN REAVES

Sometimes it’s best not to question madness!

 

Reaves seems like an overrated Lakers player to me. They always have these guys that Lakers fans love but they arent that good in reality. As soon as they leave LA they fall off a cliff for years then emerge somewhere as a decent role player lol

 

What kind of world do we live in where Austin flipping Reaves gets offered the max and he turns it down? Wow.

 

Of course he turned it down, just like Spree, he's got to feed his family.

 

This sounds like a topic First Take would create ..

 

would it matter? He said ‘Not, today.’ One year on his increase becomes huge. Even, and particularly, with Cap and extendability.

So, LAL keeps their darling.

 

And feed them well, my friend.

 

I think the NBA community has to start finding new ways to describe these contracts because all these "max" contracts are different. KD's next max contract will be around $60M/year. Jaylen Brown's "biggest contract ever" at the time starts at $49M while the max contract that Scottie Barnes just signed starts at $39M. In this case, the "max" that the Lakers offered Reeves was $89.2/4 years so around $22M/year. All of these contracts are technically "max" by some definition but very very different things.

 

Austin Reaves is a guy who should avoid ever signing. He's good right now cuz he gets a favorable whistle being in LA. Once he comes to Houston he won't get any calls and then he's not even an average player. I've never seen a more mediocre player get as many free throws as him. If Jalen had his whistle we all woulda wanted him to stick around.

 

Holy overpay batman.

 

Like THT, who’s more of a garbage time player now.

 

No thank you. Did you see him dissappear in the playoffs? Not a great defender either, would rather have Reed develop into a similar player.

 

Let's hope the Lakers pay him this next summer.

 

We can trade Durant for Reaves.

 

He's not really a winning player. Jalen Green is a better defender than him. And he's not as good of a shooter as you probably think he is. And like someone else said, he wouldn't get the whistle he gets now if he played in Houston. We should stay far away from him.

 

Man, KD is so old he knows everyone in the NBA. If we go around making threads about whoever he mentions on social media, this place will become impossible.

I can see it now: KD posts a Happy Birthday greeting to some old locker room maintenance guy in the Milwaukee arena and we get a thread about how Tilman is angling to fire the TC crew for no reason.

 

lol

 

The Lakers would be D-O-N-E if they give Reaves $50 mil per year. He’s no where near that good.And I like Austin Reaves.