Austin Reaves has a golf-themed YouTube channel and a sneaker named after his childhood admiration of Kobe Bryant. Since joining the Los Angeles Lakers, he’s become close to LeBron James.
Unless you understand Reaves’ love with golf, you may be startled to realize who is his personal sports GOAT.
At Lakers exit interviews, Austin Reaves accidentally put golf above family before quickly correcting himself, but said golf was a "close second."
As for basketball? "Love that too."
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“He’s probably my favorite athlete of all time, by the way,” Reaves stated. Spieth has been Reaves’ guy for a while. When I was covering the Lakers two years ago, he told me this in the Crypto.com Arena hallway. When I chatted with the Lakers wing in May, I was startled to discover that he hadn’t yet played golf with his hero.
When asked to forecast the Open Championship, LPGA icon Annika Sorenstam responded, “I would fancy to see Jordan win again, maybe,” during a joint press conference with Reaves before of the American Century Championship.
Since 2022, Spieth has not triumphed on the PGA Tour. The Open at Royal Troon starts on July 18. Reaves said, “I started to actually really play golf and enjoy it when he was really on his tear.” “He was triumphant in every endeavor.” That’s how his game developed on me. Prior to that, he kind of hit it a little bit of everywhere and would scramble to make par or birdie. However, his driving accuracy has been much greater lately than it ever was. And it was somewhat comparable to making poor shots; nonetheless, he outperformed everyone else on his follow-through shot. You might experience the sensation of “I could hit that ball, but I couldn’t do what he did after that.’ So that’s what I enjoyed about his game.”
