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Austin Reaves

LAL · G · #15

r/NBA's 24th most discussed player.

PPG
23.3
RPG
4.7
APG
5.5
GP
51
Height
6′5″
Weight
197 lb
Age
28
Born
May 29, 1998
Experience
4 yrs
From
Oklahoma

Verdict

40.3%Negative7,445 comments
35.5%Neutral6,561 comments
24.1%Positive4,458 comments
−16Net sentimentpositive minus negative

n=18,464 comments about Austin Reaves

  1. 28most hated
  2. 26most loved
  3. 24most discussed
  4. 29most argued about

Receipts

What the room said about Austin Reaves, verbatim: the highest-scoring comments in each class.

  1. Exhibit 01no flair
    AR interrupts a teammate’s interview, insults his lack of play, chucks an object at a fan, interrupts and shoves another teammate mid interview, all before running off.
    Post · [Highlight] Reaves to Luka: "I currently have more dunks than you". Luka dunks on his defense▲ 2,406Nov 29, 2025Source ↗
  2. Exhibit 02ATL flair
    I will end it all if we give AR $40 million a year
    Post · [Amick & Woike] The Utah Jazz and Atlanta Hawks are teams with “known interest” in signing Austin Reaves. Austin Reaves is expected to command $40 million annually.▲ 881May 12, 2026Source ↗
  3. Exhibit 03no flair
    Reaves is a traffic cone on defense and spent the majority of the game crying to the refs instead of being locked in
    Post-game thread · OKC 131 @ LAL 108 · R2 G3 · May 9▲ 229May 10, 2026Source ↗
Method
A receipt is a top-scoring comment about Austin Reaves that cleared the classifier's confidence bar and a second pass confirming it is about him. No usernames: the site judges players, not commenters.

Fans

Of what r/NBA says about Austin Reaves, his own Lakers fans are 27% negative, rival fans 47%, unflaired commenters 42%. Among the 13 fanbases with at least 200 comments, Suns fans are hardest on him at 56% negative and Lakers fans kindest at 34% positive.

27.5%Own fansLAL flair · 4,392 comments
46.5%Rival fansevery other flair · 6,384 comments
42.5%Unflairedno flair · 7,688 comments

Who hates him most

  1. 1PHX fans55.6%+17
  2. 2OKC fans54.5%+16
  3. 3GSW fans49.2%+10
  4. 4MIN fans49.1%+10
  5. 5BOS fans48.9%+10

Who defends him

  1. 1LAL fansown fans34.0%+9
  2. 2TOR fans25.7%0
  3. 3DEN fans24.0%-1
  4. 4GSW fans20.9%-5
  5. 5HOU fans20.8%-5
Method
A fanbase is the flair its commenters wear. Flairs with fewer than 200 comments about Austin Reaves are left out of the lists; the tick is his rate across every flaired comment, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.

Rooms

Austin Reaves was talked about most on the front page: 6,531 of his 18,464 comments, −4 net sentiment against −16 across his season. His harshest room was the game threads, −39 on 31% of his comments; his warmest highlights, −2 on 10% of his comments. The game threads ran 34 points harsher than the front page: his play was graded live.

Game threadsHarshest57.318.75,655
Post-game threads37.132.21,009
Front page31.927.76,531
HighlightsWarmest33.932.01,766
News31.820.33,253
Method
A room is the kind of post a comment sat under: a game thread, the front page, a highlight. A room is drawn when it holds at least 200 comments about Austin Reaves; left out here: Lowlights (79), Injury posts (77), Daily chat thread (34), Discussion posts (29). The bar is the room's share of his comments, its split the room's sentiment. Harshest and warmest are by net sentiment, positive minus negative, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.

Timeline

Over 4-week windows, the negative share of comments about Austin Reaves ran between 26% and 59%. His worst week was the week of May 4, 63% negative of 3,806 comments; his best the week of Oct 27, 46% positive.

Method
Lines are 4-week rolling rates from summed counts (Σ negative ÷ Σ comments), drawn only where the window holds at least 30 comments. Dots are single weeks, sized by n. Bands follow the season calendar.

Games

The room talked about Austin Reaves in 40 of his 61 games, at least 20 comments each. It was harsher after losses: net sentiment −52 in losses (65% negative, 12% positive) against +11 in wins (32% negative, 44% positive), on a season net sentiment of −16.

+11In wins32% neg · 44% pos · 1,539 comments
−52In losses65% neg · 12% pos · 4,374 comments
−16His season40% neg · 24% pos · 18,464 comments
DatePhaseOppResultMinPtsRebAstFG3PTOV+/−P/R/ACommentsVerdict
May 11R2 G4R2 G4vs OKCL 110–115L 110–1154327768-163-78-627/7/613,015
May 9R2 G3R2 G3vs OKCL 108–131L 108–1313917395-131-55-2417/3/913,634
May 7R2 G2R2 G2@ OKCL 107–125L 107–12538312610-163-65-2031/2/621,807
May 5R2 G1R2 G1@ OKCL 90–108L 90–108368563-160-54-108/5/611,399
May 1R1 G6R1 G6@ HOUW 98–78W 98–783115327-140-42+315/3/27,226
Apr 29R1 G5R1 G5vs HOUL 93–99L 93–993422464-162-83-522/4/66,820
Apr 2@ OKCL 96–139L 96–1392715415-92-34-2315/4/15,831
Mar 23@ DETL 110–113L 110–1134024257-152-63-524/2/51,514
Mar 21@ ORLW 105–104W 105–10440267510-202-83+826/7/51,586
Mar 19@ MIAW 134–126W 134–1264018545-122-72+1318/5/41,169

Bad nights get punished: across 40 games the room talked about, net sentiment rises with Austin Reaves's Game Score.

−100−75−50−250+25+50+75+100-1001020304050his season −16L vs GSW 109–119: Game Score 20.4, net sentiment −39 from 90 commentsW vs MIN 128–110: Game Score 26.5, net sentiment +3 from 39 commentsW @ SAC 127–120: Game Score 49.6, net sentiment +13 from 160 commentsL vs POR 108–122: Game Score 28.9, net sentiment −24 from 41 commentsW @ MIN 116–115: Game Score 24.9, net sentiment +39 from 211 commentsW @ MEM 117–112: Game Score 15.4, net sentiment +10 from 40 commentsL @ OKC 92–121: Game Score 4.2, net sentiment −68 from 60 commentsW vs UTA 140–126: Game Score 19.1, net sentiment −27 from 49 commentsW vs LAC 135–118: Game Score 31.0, net sentiment +26 from 72 commentsW vs DAL 129–119: Game Score 35.0, net sentiment +12 from 132 commentsW vs NOP 133–121: Game Score 29.1, net sentiment +22 from 40 commentsL vs PHX 108–125: Game Score 7.5, net sentiment −31 from 42 commentsW @ TOR 123–120: Game Score 36.0, net sentiment +15 from 131 commentsL @ BOS 105–126: Game Score 29.1, net sentiment −47 from 146 commentsW @ PHI 112–108: Game Score 4.3, net sentiment −30 from 54 commentsL vs SAS 119–132: Game Score 9.6, net sentiment −66 from 176 commentsL @ PHX 108–132: Game Score 8.7, net sentiment −45 from 20 commentsL vs HOU 96–119: Game Score 8.1, net sentiment −41 from 37 commentsW vs PHI 119–115: Game Score 26.1, net sentiment +49 from 74 commentsW vs GSW 105–99: Game Score 15.0, net sentiment −18 from 22 commentsL vs OKC 110–119: Game Score 8.9, net sentiment −25 from 63 commentsW vs LAC 125–122: Game Score 24.3, net sentiment −40 from 20 commentsL vs BOS 89–111: Game Score 14.0, net sentiment −32 from 25 commentsL @ PHX 110–113: Game Score 7.1, net sentiment −35 from 20 commentsL @ DEN 113–120: Game Score 19.7, net sentiment −27 from 22 commentsW vs NYK 110–97: Game Score 23.2, net sentiment +8 from 25 commentsW vs MIN 120–106: Game Score 26.9, net sentiment +6 from 31 commentsW vs DEN 127–125: Game Score 25.9, net sentiment +26 from 135 commentsW @ HOU 100–92: Game Score 12.5, net sentiment −14 from 57 commentsW @ HOU 124–116: Game Score 13.9, net sentiment −33 from 27 commentsW @ MIA 134–126: Game Score 11.9, net sentiment −92 from 24 commentsW @ ORL 105–104: Game Score 20.5, net sentiment −8 from 37 commentsL @ DET 110–113: Game Score 16.9, net sentiment −17 from 23 commentsL @ OKC 96–139: Game Score 8.2, net sentiment −51 from 103 commentsL vs HOU 93–99: Game Score 13.9, net sentiment −47 from 380 commentsW @ HOU 98–78: Game Score 9.2, net sentiment +4 from 159 commentsL @ OKC 90–108: Game Score -0.4, net sentiment −65 from 907 commentsL @ OKC 107–125: Game Score 20.8, net sentiment −44 from 790 commentsL vs OKC 108–131: Game Score 10.9, net sentiment −64 from 838 commentsL vs OKC 110–115: Game Score 16.7, net sentiment −41 from 591 comments
r = 0.64 · 40 games · win loss