{"id":759412,"date":"2026-07-13T00:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T00:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/759412\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T00:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T00:21:07","slug":"austin-reaves-played-a-round-of-golf-while-on-the-phone-with-agents-in-nba-free-agency-frenzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/759412\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Reaves played a round of golf while on the phone with agents in NBA free agency frenzy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fresh off re-signing with the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>, Austin Reaves finally found some refuge on the golf course this weekend in the American Century Championship.<\/p>\n

Even the links had been stressful recently for Reaves, an avid golfer who was consumed by the frenzy of NBA free agency.<\/p>\n

As among the most coveted available stars, Reaves said he was \u201con the phone with my agents probably five, six, seven hours a day\u201d for a week when free agency reached a fever pitch.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was kind of annoying because it was interrupting my golf,\u201d Reaves said during an NBC Sports interview in Sunday\u2019s final round. \u201cBut I did play one full round with them on the phone, and I just put them on speaker. I\u2019d throw (the phone) on the ground and hit and pick it up and keep talking.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"NBA:<\/p>\n

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Reaves returns to the Lakers on the richest contract ever signed by an undrafted player.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old from Arkansas is a golf content creator when he\u2019s off the court. Reaves founded the \u201cHillbilly Bogey\u201d brand with his friend Trent Swaim.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a YouTube channel devoted to \u201cHillbilly Bogey,\u201d<\/a> which is a reference to Reaves\u2019 nickname (\u201cHillbilly Kobe\u201d) as a high school basketball star.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just try to have fun with it,\u201d Reaves said of his social media. \u201cWe play so much golf that we just wanted to document it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reaves joked that he made so many bogeys the first day of the American Century Championship that he was ready to shed the \u201cHillbilly Bogey\u201d hat he was sporting.<\/p>\n

But he was at least happier with his game now that the madness surrounding his NBA future had quieted down.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been good,\u201d Reaves said. \u201cI haven\u2019t hit it the way I wanted to all week, but it\u2019s good to be out here. My brother\u2019s on the bag. It\u2019s good to see all the fans and just have fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"NBA:<\/p>\n

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Austin Reaves joined The Dan Patrick Show from Lake Tahoe, Nevada at the American Century Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh off re-signing with the Los Angeles Lakers, Austin Reaves finally found some refuge on the golf course…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-759412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}