Austin Reaves: “I mean, I always had delusional confidence. The weirdest story was, like I said, I’m from a town of a thousand people, so there’s nothing to do. You hunt, you fish, you do all the country stuff. I remember my mom’s best friend at the time took me hunting one day, and we were sitting there talking. I was probably nine years old, and she asked me, ‘What do you want to do when you get older?’ And I said, ‘Oh, I want to play in the NBA.’ And she was like, ‘You mean the MLB?’ And I said, ‘No, I want to play in the NBA.’ And she thought it was the craziest thing, because I played, but I didn’t really actually play like that yet. But when it really came to reality, I was at Oklahoma, and Lon Kruger followed me out of practice one day and told me, ‘I think you could be a first-round pick.’ And, you know, he’s been around basketball forever. So once he said that, I was like, ‘Oh, I’ve got a chance.’”
