Lakers guard Austin Reaves has been fairly open about the truth that he wasn’t all the time LeBron James’ greatest fan and he revealed precisely when he stopped hating the Lakers nice.
Final yr, social media posts of Reaves hating on LeBron from 2012 got here to gentle, however now that he’s teammates with LeBron, he appears to have come full circle.
“I’ve requested LeBron plenty of questions,” Reaves stated on BustaJack Golf. “Greater than he in all probability desires me to, to be trustworthy. However if you’re enjoying with the best of all time, how do you not attempt to decide his mind? I’ve requested him what he thought his biggest yr was, not by way of championships however by way of peak athleticism, talent, and data. For me, I feel his finest yr was the yr they misplaced to KD (Kevin Durant) and Steph (Stephen Curry) within the Finals. That was the yr I lastly stopped hating him.”
In the identical episode, Reaves went on to defend LeBron’s most up-to-date title win from the 2020 bubble.
“It’s not a Mickey Mouse ring,” Reaves stated. “… All people had an equal enjoying area, I feel it’s the identical as each different yr. I simply suppose if Bron doesn’t win it, then no person says something. All people hates Bron. Truly, everyone loves LeBron, however he will get a lot hate.”
One other NBA participant, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope defended the Lakers’ title run not way back.
In July, he informed Draymond Inexperienced on The Draymond Inexperienced Present that, “It’s one of many hardest championships to win. You’re enjoying a season, then the season’s shut down. You don’t know should you’re even going to come back again and play basketball.”
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