Austin Reaves | Ep 192 | ALL THE SMOKE Full Episode | SHOWTIME BASKETBALL
All The Smoke
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4.7 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Summer league was a MOVIE and ALL THE SMOKE had a chance to sit down with some of the biggest names in the sport. On the first episode of ATS's Vegas run, Matt and Stak sat down with Laker's breakout star Austin Reaves. The 25-year-old reflected on the teams up and down 2023 season, Lebron breaking the all-time scoring record, his new contract and guarding Steph in the playoffs. Plus, he explains what it was like playing with Russell Westbrook and what it is like playing with Lebron and joining the United State FIBA team.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back all the smoke NBA summer league out here in the blue wire studio |
| 0:29.9 | the beautiful wind hotel beautiful in a minute man my brother we back in the mix we got a good |
| 0:34.8 | little guest here today man I've been a big fan of this guy you know got a chance to know him |
| 0:41.4 | briefly through DM and kind of talking back and forth but he was gracious enough to bless us with |
| 0:46.1 | his time for he has back home today welcome to the show Austin Reeves appreciate it new bag |
| 0:50.7 | Reeves is what they call him back home now man crazy run you guys 13th at one point during the |
| 1:03.2 | season you guys make some moves at the deadline you guys make a run all the way to the Western conference |
| 1:09.2 | finals you were one of the most consistent performance throughout the season average 17 points of |
| 1:13.7 | game in the playoffs talked to us just about kind of the marathon of the season where you guys ended |
| 1:19.6 | yeah I mean it was a long season like you said we were 13th and you know but not much you know |
| 1:26.3 | upside to look forward to but then at the trade deadline made some you know moves and you know |
| 1:31.4 | really just become a team and that was really the main thing is we got closer on and off the court |
| 1:36.8 | and I really just carried over to the court everybody really just wanted to win and that was it |
| 1:41.7 | how did that chemistry because he and I were we're joined in 2007 when we made a mid season trade |
| 1:49.9 | we made a you know a crazy run made NBA history but we were literally on and off the court |
| 1:55.4 | smoking watching film kicking it not you don't have to tell us what you were doing but that how |
| 2:00.9 | how was it tough to get kind of that chemistry with you guys got like four new guys that like we're |
| 2:06.0 | in rotation how did that chemistry develop and and and how did it help along the way oh there was |
| 2:11.3 | a lot of booray played I'm sure y'all know about that but now it was playing rise on the way home |
| 2:18.3 | was you know more active really just getting to know one another being able to trust one another |
| 2:23.6 | was really the main thing and it just like I say carried over to the court |
| 2:27.2 | avid golfer your as soon as you leave here you're back home for golf event when did golf come |
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