{"id":343190,"date":"2025-10-30T13:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T13:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/343190\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T13:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T13:15:14","slug":"austin-reaves-oklahoma-highlights-have-nba-fans-baffled-that-lakers-star-went-undrafted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/343190\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Reaves&#8217; Oklahoma highlights have NBA fans baffled that Lakers star went undrafted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/ncaa-basketball\/news\/austin-reaves-oklahoma-highlights-nba-fans-baffled-lakers-star-undrafted\/f6737efdda6fa0a9ed6b40fc?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Austin Reaves&#039; Oklahoma highlights have NBA fans baffled that Lakers star went undrafted;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Austin Reaves&#8217; Oklahoma highlights have NBA fans baffled that Lakers star went undrafted<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Austin Reaves is in the midst of one of the best runs of play in the history of the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He just hit a game-winner Wednesday for the Los Angeles Lakers, and that wasn&#8217;t even the best night the former Oklahoma Sooners standout has had recently.<\/p>\n<p>These are his stats in the five games to start this season, with Luka Doncic missing the last three and LeBron James missing all five:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>\n<p>26 points, 5 rebounds, 9 assists, 9-16 FG (7-10 FT)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>25 points, 7 rebounds, 11 assists, 9-15 FG (5-5 FT)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>51 points, 11 rebounds, 9 assists, 12-22 FG (21-22 FT)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>41 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists, 13-22 FG (12-14 FT)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>28 points, 1 rebound, 16 assists, 9-24 FG (7-7 FT)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/minnesota-timberwolves\/news\/timberwolves-anthony-edwards-hilarious-unawareness-who-lakers-no-12\/f0699b6bc236a49016dfa69d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Anthony Edwards has hilarious unawareness of who Lakers&#039; No. 12 is;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Anthony Edwards has hilarious unawareness of who Lakers&#8217; No. 12 is<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those would be remarkable numbers for any player in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>And then basketball fans remember that Reaves went undrafted.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, it feels quite astonishing. Reaves&#8217; Oklahoma highlights have been making the rounds on social media, and they&#8217;re certainly quite impressive:<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/chicago-bulls\/news\/michal-jordan-impassioned-take-load-management-shouldnt-be-needed\/0b3dc23c3bf197a65b7cc2ba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Michael Jordan gives an impassioned take on load management;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Michael Jordan gives an impassioned take on load management<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Reaves&#8217; college journey was a long one, though. He&#8217;s the kind of lengthy-tenured college player that NBA teams often overlook.<\/p>\n<p>He started his career at Wichita State, and even in his second season, he started only a third of the games and averaged 8.1 points.<\/p>\n<p>He sat out a year after transferring to Oklahoma (remember when players had to do that?).<\/p>\n<p>By the time he took the floor for OU, he had clearly improved tremendously. In 2019-20, he put up 14.7 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p>And in his last season with the Sooners, in 2020-21, Reaves averaged 18.3 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4.6 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>His shooting wasn&#8217;t there yet, at just 30.5% from 3, another knock on his NBA potential.<\/p>\n<p>But the story of Reaves is of a guy who never stopped getting better. That&#8217;s been true in the league, too, and it&#8217;s why he&#8217;s on such a historic run despite being a player that had doubters all the way along his journey.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Austin Reaves&#8217; Oklahoma highlights have NBA fans baffled that Lakers star went undrafted originally appeared on The Sporting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":343191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[8613,169038,17378,169037,3363,3141,3365,1260,5847,21286,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-343190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-anthony-edwards","9":"tag-assists-per-game","10":"tag-austin-reaves","11":"tag-fg","12":"tag-lebron-james","13":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","14":"tag-luka-doncic","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-oklahoma","17":"tag-oklahoma-sooners","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115463305699566308","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}