Austin Reaves playing wheelchair basketball

Charania The Lakers held a meeting with Austin Reaves playing his favorite country songs and made him Pillows with AR initials on them in their recruiting pitch

Charania I'm told over the last 24-48 hours the Lakers came to the understanding that Austin Reaves had multiple max contracts available to him in free agency The Detroit Pistons were coming aggressively for him So that's why today the Lakers stepped up to give him this deal

Windhorst 2 days ago the Lakers and Austin Reaves' camp were pretty far apart in their discussions about where his contract would land Then the Lakers yesterday pivoted increasing their offer somewhere in the neighbourhood of 50 per season

Zach Austin with the two-handed dunk over Duke Brennan with replays

Asa Newell with the impressive lefty finish off the spin move with a replay

Cody Williams with a nasty poster dunk on Asa Newell with replays