Jerry West Shares His Sleeper Pick to Breakout in 2022
Heat Check with Trysta Krick
The 8 Side
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🗓️ 21 September 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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During part three of Trysta's sit down interview with "The Logo" Jerry West they discuss the top rookies and young NBA future stars at NBA Summer League. West gives his sleeper pick to breakout and become a household name in 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.2 | Austin Reeves may be one of the best decisions that the Los Angeles Lakers locked into. |
| 0:11.2 | Undrafted guy, undrafted rookie that surprised almost everyone last year except for Jerry West, |
| 0:18.1 | who had him on his radar pretty much the entire time because of his relationship |
| 0:22.3 | with Bob Huggins, who actually told Jerry that Austin Reeves was the best player in the |
| 0:28.8 | conference. Jerry thinks Austin has a very high ceiling. Why? Listen in. Who do you think is the |
| 0:36.1 | sleeper, like a player that maybe people aren't talking about now |
| 0:41.1 | that could really be not only make a splash next year? |
| 0:44.3 | I mean, this year's Herb Jones or like a Jose Alvarano. |
| 0:48.3 | Well, as I say, I don't know how it looked out like that. Me? |
| 0:56.7 | There's so many games here. |
| 0:58.8 | There's two different venues. |
| 1:04.0 | I've been over there every day, and you try to watch the people you're going to watch, |
| 1:06.5 | and some of them, for some reason, don't play. But I'm missing two players, even though they were drafted higher, I think most decent and also |
| 1:13.6 | Daniels are two players that I think, have a person who's big upside. |
| 1:19.6 | There's some kids that I like in the second round that are, I think, are interesting. |
| 1:25.6 | Um, um, um, the watching can, uh, I think you're interested. |
| 1:33.9 | You're watching Ken, I think he was drafted in the second round, |
| 1:35.0 | and maybe like close. |
| 1:41.0 | I think he's really interesting, but his ability to guard and very athletic. |
| 1:47.0 | I think he's got a future in a player that we like, our scouts like to lot. But there were we players that stand out that we, you know, a year ago, |
| 1:53.0 | the Lakers signed an undrafted a player. |
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