A biography for Austin Reaveshasn’t been written yet.
“You know, as a white guy in the NBA, I sometimes look at white players and I'm like, 'They're not very good.' So, it's a stigma that I think is real.”
“You want high-pressure moments and you really want to play under the lights.”
“Now, because I want to sustain what I'm doing and have a long career, I know my body is an investment. I really try to watch what I put in it. I fall short every now and then, but it's mostly a lot of fruits, vegetables, and clean foods.”
“I learn from everybody.”
“If you're pure to the game, the game will be pure to you back eventually.”
“Baseball was really my first sport, and that's what everybody thought I was going to do. But I played too much, kinda got burnt out on it.”
“I like Kobe.”
“The one thing I will say about Russ is that he was probably one of my favorite teammates I've ever had. Always in a good mood to me.”
“LeBron throws me good passes, Luka throws me good passes and I just shoot it with confidence.”
“I'm going to do dumb things. I'm going to mess up. I'm going to do dumb things and I'm going to learn from them. That's all I can really do.”
“You really just have to find the things you can do to help be successful. If it's playing defense, taking charges, offensive rebounding - you really just apply yourself to it.”
“My whole life, I've been too skinny. Not athletic enough. At one point I wasn't skilled enough. Everybody found excuses for me not to It was always, 'We're gonna find something about him that he can't do good enough to make it.'”
“Don't have a mentality where scoring is all that matters, getting assists are all that matters.”
“My mom is usually the first one I text after every game. She definitely gives me some constructive criticism but also tells me how proud of me she is and how much she loves me. It means a lot that every game good or bad, I get a text from her.”
“My grandma was a diehard Kobe fan.”
“I got good vets to learn from.”
“It's all about winning for me.”
“Losing sucks.”
“I played basketball in fourth, fifth and sixth grade because it was what my friends did. But in seventh grade, I decided I wanted to quit baseball, start playing basketball and really just try to get my school paid for.”
“Five seconds is a long time when it comes to basketball.”