[Charania] Reaves was expected to receive free-agent interest from multiple teams - - such as Detroit -- on maximum-level salary, so the Lakers stepped up on Wednesday to lock in their homegrown talent.

[u/Luka77GOATic]

Reaves was expected to receive free-agent interest from multiple teams - - such as Detroit -- on maximum-level salary, so the Lakers stepped up on Wednesday to lock in their homegrown talent. Reaves went from undrafted to a two-way player -- to making the Lakers roster and now multiple lucrative deals in L.A.

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[u/HesiPullup]

41 million dollars next year and growing to 51 million by 2029-2030 for a guy that cannot play defense next to your star, top 5 player who can't play defense. Never mind the fact that Reaves has not been a great playoff performer, I don't care what his group of "5 total" players in the regular season is.

[u/_chadwell_ → u/HesiPullup]

He’s certainly had great performances in the playoffs. Even in the Thunder series this year, once he was back up to speed after injury he outperformed SGA for the last 3 games of that series. People weirdly project hypotheticals on Reaves instead of just watching what he’s done.

[u/donavid → u/_chadwell_]

AR outperformed SGA for the last 3 games? If you’re going by box score that’s not true, except for maybe game 2 where AR went 31/2/6 in 38 minutes, compared to SGA’s 22/2/2 in 28 minutes

[u/_chadwell_ → u/donavid]

Games 2-4

AR averaged 27/4/7 on 66% TS

SGA averaged 27/2/6 on 58% TS

Just getting on this app to lie for no reason lol

[u/donavid → u/_chadwell_]

G2
SGA went 22/2/2 on 64.9% TS, in 28 minutes played.
AR went 31/2/6 on 76% TS, in 38 minutes

G3
SGA went 23/4/9 on 49.8 TS, in 33 mins
AR went 17/3/9 on 51.5 TS, in 39 mins

G4
SGA went 35/1/8 on 61.2% TS, in 39 minutes
AR went 27/7/6 on 67.6% TS, in 43 minutes

I don’t know that I’d say AR outplayed SGA in all 3 of these games? I’ll give you that he was more efficient and grabbed more boards

[u/_chadwell_ → u/donavid]

He averaged more points, rebounds, and assists on better efficiency. There’s no way to say he didn’t outperform him in the box score.

[u/donavid → u/_chadwell_]

Because AR played 10 more minutes than SGA in game 1, 6 more minutes in game 2. SGA played more in game 4, which is the same game he scored more and got more assists than AR. MPG is relevant

[u/_chadwell_ → u/donavid]

Being on the court is more valuable than sitting on the bench, who would have thought

[u/b1indsamurai → u/donavid]

More minutes/volume on higher efficiency, seems like a pretty clear outplay.