“I'd sneak out and work on my game at midnight. The neighbors would call and say, turn the lights off. I went from the worst player to the first guy off the bench to the best player on my ninth-grade team, and then it took off.”

American former professional basketball player and sports analyst

Austin Rivers is an American former professional basketball player, now a sports analyst for ESPN and NBC Sports. Born in 1992, he played 11 seasons in the NBA and is the son of coach and former player Doc Rivers. Selected 10th overall by the New Orleans Hornets in the 2012 NBA draft, Rivers spent three seasons there before moving on to the Los Angeles Clippers. He later played for the Washington Wizards, Houston Rockets, New York Knicks, Denver Nuggets, and Minnesota Timberwolves. His career spans several teams, and his public profile comes both from his years on the court and his work in sports media.