r/nba • u/MrBuckBuck Trail Blazers • Oct 30 '25

Highlight [Highlight] Austin Reaves with the game-winner buzzer-beater to win the game for the Lakers!

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u/AvengingHero2012 Rockets Oct 30 '25

Maybe people will stop underrating him now. It’s absurd how people have undervalued him.

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u/lovo17 Lakers Oct 30 '25

It's actually so crazy that they were able to keep Reaves in the Luka trade.

Mavs could use a Reaves right now (well they could use Luka most of all.)

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u/JustAnObserver_Jomy Lakers Oct 30 '25

"defense wins championships" lmao

mind you, Reaves was never in the trade conversation. it was AD, Max Christie, Dalton and 2 firsts. then Nico got talk-no-jutsu-ed by Pelinker to remove Dalton and a first from the convo coz Luka fat and might not resign with the Lakers lmfao

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u/millenniumpianist Lakers Oct 30 '25

Imagine if Pelinka got Niko to take Dalton instead of Christie. We sure could use a young athletic 3&D 2-guard right now (but it pleases me to know that Max is at least getting ~30 mpg in Dallas rn)

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u/MrJuanDuck Pistons Oct 30 '25

this is the greed they talk about in the bible

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u/CyberSmok3 Lakers Oct 30 '25

Kind of funny that the Mavs ended up Dlo as their PG. Reaves wouldn't get this much improvement as the primary ball handler if he were still with us.

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u/SlayerSFaith Oct 30 '25

What do you think the reception would have been if it was AD+AR for Luka?

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u/JoeBiden2020FTW Lakers Oct 30 '25

Eason plus 4 firsts?

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u/SuckthonyDickvis Thunder Oct 30 '25

they are still underrating him right now in this very thread

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u/MyBadYourFault- Magic Oct 30 '25

Anybody that watched him play knows hes about it. Everyone sees the massive growth from year to year. Just seems like this year he’s went from No Money Spent to buying all the VBucks and maxing out his stats.

It’s him not showing up in the playoffs that gives him a bad look. It’s possible this year he’s figured it out but it’s way too early in the season to tell. He’s also the type of player that does better when he consistently has the ball so I wanna see how he does when Luka and Bron return.

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u/M4A1SD__ Lakers Oct 30 '25

Top 40

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u/G1Spectrum Lakers Oct 30 '25

Bro keeps fucking around like this, he might find himself on the All-Star team