Austin Reeves discusses NBA career and Lakers

The man to my right, fresh off a brand new extension with the Los Angeles

Lakers and the headband assassin himself right next to me, Austin Reeves.

Austin, good to see you. Good to meet you. Nice to meet you as well. You go

from an individual who's just clawing his way, trying to get into the NBA,

make a name for himself to now a brand new multimillion dollar extension with

the Lakers. You're gonna be a Laker for the long term. What is it like going

from that side of the fence to here, where it's like you've made a name for

yourself. Obviously, you're still working hard, but you're gonna be a

Laker, which people kill for. Yeah, I mean, that was the main goal at the

start of everything was, uh, to continue my career with the Lakers and

whatever that look like. Uh, but as far as the contract basketball, I mean,

that's it's all great. But at the end of the day, I love basketball and I

want to compete and I want to win. It's gonna be a new look for you guys.

LeBron James exit stage, right? Obviously, you still have Luca Walker

Kessler coming into the fold. Rob Polinka making some moves. How excited

are you to get into camp and just see what this new group can do? Very

excited. Um, you know, obviously, you never want to see, you know, people

that you've been with for years, you know, leave. Uh, obviously, I don't

have all the time in the world to talk about how great LeBron is and how much

you know he means to me in my career. Um, but, you know, I miss all those

guys, but it's a good opportunity for us to, you know, kind of turn the page

and see what's next. You play in the National Basketball Association. I'm

captain obvious in that situation right there. But as a fan of the game,

this offseason, so many trades and free agencies going crazy left and right for

you as a person who's in the NBA watching all this from afar. What do

you make of all the moves? They're crazy. I don't really be on social

media, though, so I kind of hear through my friends. But I mean, that's

kind of the nature of the business. Now you see, you know, guys that are top

five and MVP voting getting traded. So, um, it's definitely a wild, crazy

timing right now. One final question, though. In recent years, you have

the headband, the leg sleeve. I mean, for you, tell the people what inspired

the headband. What? You thinking of something new? What was struggling as

a team? I think we had lost three or four in a row and we were in a bad

spot, so I just wanted to brighten the mood, lighten the mood a little bit

and put a headband on. I look crazy and we started winning games. I was like,

you know what? I'll at my expense, you know, I'll keep the headband if we

can keep the vibes high.