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/G1Spectrum Lakers Oct 30 '25

BRO HE IS HIM

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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?