DHJ Quick Take: Nets\u2019 Potential Austin Reaves Pursuit<\/p>\n
Brooklyn Interest: The Brooklyn Nets are a potential suitor for Los Angeles Lakers guard Austin Reaves, who is widely expected to decline his player option and enter unrestricted free agency this summer.<\/p>\n
Expected Lakers Return: Despite potential outside pursuit, the prevailing belief across the NBA is that the standout guard will ultimately re-sign with the Lakers to stay on his current trajectory.<\/p>\n
Key Los Angeles Ties: Reaves\u2019 strong desire to remain in Los Angeles is reinforced by his close relationships with Luka Don\u010di\u0107 and head coach JJ Redick.<\/p>\n
The Brooklyn Nets could pursue Los Angeles Lakers guard <\/a>Austin Reaves<\/a> in free agency this offseason, according to Tim Bontemps of ESPN<\/a>. <\/p>\n Reaves is expected to decline his player option for next season and enter unrestricted free agency this summer. The Arkansas native signed a four-year, $53 million contract with the Lakers in July 2023. <\/p>\n \u201cOne potential bidder to watch this summer, sources said, is the\u00a0Brooklyn Nets, who will enter the offseason with more than enough salary cap space to accommodate a max-type player,\u201d Bontemps wrote. <\/p>\n Reaves averaged 23.3 points, 4.7 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game this season while shooting 49.0% from the field, 36.0% from 3 and 87.1% from the free-throw line. He\u2019s considered one of the best undrafted players in NBA history.<\/p>\n Most people around the NBA expect Reaves to re-sign with the Lakers. Reaves has a close relationship with Luka Don\u010di\u0107<\/a> and head coach JJ Redick<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d be pretty surprised if the first year starts with a 3 instead of a 4,\u201d an East scout told Bontemps. \u201cBut the Lakers need to keep him, and by all accounts he wants to be there, so I think they make it work.\u201d<\/p>\n Reaves holds career averages of 15.8 points, 3.9 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game in the regular season and 17.3 points, 4.4 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game in the playoffs. He helped the Lakers reach the Western Conference Finals in 2023. <\/p>\n \u201cSeveral scouts and executives predict something in the range of five years, $200 million, but below his five-year max of $239 million, per ESPN\u2019s Bobby Marks,\u201d Bontemps wrote. <\/p>\n The Lakers went 53-29 this season. They beat the Houston Rockets in the first round of the playoffs in six games but lost to the Oklahoma City Thunder in the second round in four games. Reaves missed Games 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the Rockets series with an oblique injury, while Don\u010di\u0107 missed the entire playoffs because of a severe hamstring injury. <\/p>\n Brooklyn had the third-worst record in the East this season at 20-62. The franchise is in deep rebuild mode, so it would be shocking to see Reaves leave the Lakers for the Nets. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DHJ Quick Take: Nets\u2019 Potential Austin Reaves Pursuit Brooklyn Interest: The Brooklyn Nets are a potential suitor for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-247399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}