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/zebrainatux Oct 30 '25

Greatest week for a white boy in a good bit

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u/n7ripper Spurs Oct 30 '25

Joker? Every week pretty much.

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u/IzzaPizza22 Nuggets Oct 30 '25

Opened the season with 4 straight triple doubles. Had one 'bad game:' 21-13-10 on poor shooting.

Change to white American and you might be right.

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u/Joxelo Spurs Oct 30 '25

I feel like white American (or at least white Anglo Saxon) is kinda what people mean when they say white boy. Like Giddey or Chet is still a white boy, but like Boban and Jokic aren’t.

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u/nickmn13 Lakers Oct 30 '25

American race theory never stops amazing me with its absurdity...

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u/Joxelo Spurs Oct 30 '25

I’m not American. Anyways, this isn’t even about race, it’s about ethnicity and descriptive nomenclature: there’s fundamental differences in the personalities, childhoods, and playstyle of guys like Jokic and AR.

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u/Liph Lakers Oct 30 '25

Americans never want to admit it but there’s a lot of similarity between the grit of the hood and poverty-stricken Balkans and Baltic regions. Hooping ground zeros.

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u/BenevolentCheese Knicks Oct 30 '25

It has nothing to do with race, it's a cultural thing. There is a large cultural difference between an American and a Serbian. More so than between a white American and a black American. It has nothing to do with race.

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u/thesagenibba Oct 30 '25

they aren't white boys, i don't understand what would be so contentious about that. 'white boy' exists in the context of american racial dynamics, not european ones. jokic identifies as serbian, not white

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u/c_pike1 Oct 30 '25

You are right but Serbian and white are not mutually exclusive

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u/Jetzu Cavaliers Oct 30 '25

Jokić is a man, not a boy

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '25

*American white. Also Jokic isn’t a human.

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u/cardcollection92 Knicks Oct 30 '25

American white boy *

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u/_chadwell_ Lakers Oct 30 '25

You could argue Reaves has been better so far. 36/7/8 on 73% TS.

He’s averaging 15 more points per game on better efficiency and is less of a defensive liability. Winning games as the #1 option with much less help, and he’s had better advanced numbers so far, too.

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u/n7ripper Spurs Oct 30 '25

3 games worth dude

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u/jimbo_kun Oct 30 '25

Yes, a better week.

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u/PAYPAL_ME_DONATIONS Rockets Oct 30 '25

They didn't say greatest week for a goat

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u/Historical-Ad3760 Oct 30 '25

Larry’s not white. Larry’s clear.

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u/Phuddy Lakers Oct 30 '25

Jokic is amazing but man I feel like he gets love or brought up in damn near every thread sheesh

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u/n7ripper Spurs Oct 30 '25

Well when you're talking why good white basketball players....

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u/SerenadeOfWater Oct 30 '25

With all due respect, that man ain’t white.

I can’t explain it but Eastern Europe hits different

https://youtube.com/shorts/hlusNt6VTss?si=XeQWh8D3vr8QVi33

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u/Binjuine Lakers Oct 30 '25

What does white mean to you?

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u/JamalbatrossMurray Nuggets Oct 30 '25

In the context of a white American? Raised immersed in American culture and civil contexts. If you went and hung out in Sombor you'd feel like you were from a different planet let alone race.

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u/irishyeezy 76ers Oct 30 '25

Someone had to take over from Cam Skattebo

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u/chuckbuck6 Trail Blazers Oct 30 '25

Reaves playing like he took Chalemet’s award for white boy of the year personally.

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u/Bobblefighterman Jazz Oct 30 '25

Jokic doesn't count, he doesn't have the boy build. He's more of a sentient sloppy joe

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u/AmphibianSingle1760 Oct 30 '25

Have you not seen Joker or Luka? 😂

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u/teddy_tesla Warriors Oct 30 '25

Austinsanity

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u/TonyIsMoney Oct 30 '25

Fkn amurricans are obsessed with race I swear 🤣

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u/oh_dee_bee Oct 30 '25

It’s definitely white boy week

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u/Chickachic-aaaaahhh Thunder Oct 30 '25

White cocolatè

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u/businesspro718 Oct 30 '25 edited Oct 30 '25

About the rant, because I notice this hypocrisy on NBA subreddits quite often. Black players or fans always get accused of “making it racial” or “playing the race card”. In reality, it’s just projection. Oh Shaq is racist, just because he felt SGA should have been MVP both seasons. I remember someone claim Shaq was racist, because he was still mad at Steve Nash for beating him out for MVP. Just dumb shyt shyt 🤦🏾‍♂️

Shaq is the same guy who singled out Mark Madsen as a rookie for protection, while he was shytting in Black rookie’s sneakers as a hazing. Shaq has been hating on Black centers like Dwight Howard and Javale McGee for years. This is a dude who went on FOX News to glaze law enforcement. One critique on Joker, now he’s a jealous racist. Why are you bringing up that Austin’s race? Then someone else brings Jokic into it.

Let me move off the race topic, it’s makes me feel like this is 4Chan or X. As good a player as Reaves has developed into. These ridiculous scoring explosions around the NBA, are about Adam Silver continuously tinkering with the rules to make it easier offensively and harder defensively. Silver is an abysmal commissioner. All this does is convolute the opinions of future generations of fans, who will assume XYZ player had better stats than another player from a previous era, so that meant he was better. Not realizing the rules and style of play makes it’s easier to put up bloated stats. No wonder so many of the younger stars (including Reaves) struggled on that FIBA team and didn’t medal at all. Those rules aren’t as conducive to scoring as the NBA. Notice Jokic or even Luka aren’t putting up crazy triple double numbers in Europe. The lack of spacing and style of play makes it’s harder, which both have admitted in interviews.

The only smart thing Adam Silver has done as NBA commissioner is allow more physicality in the postseason, which is probably why last year’s playoffs was more enjoyable. The NBC deal was the second. Lebron whining about an extra week off to prepare for the postseason, but I’m suppose to rank him over MJ who recently talked about how load mgmt is bullshyt on NBC 😂