Growing up in a town so small that the pizza spot is called “The Pizza Place,” it was either going to be sports or farm work, Nicole Wilkett told her boys. Her son chose sports. DanWoikeSports on Austin Reaves' journey from the farm to L.A.
unearthed after last year’s NBA draft. But here, the country kid, who is as country as it gets, isn’t quite comfortable.
He was, his detractors thought, just a small-town kid who was too slow and small, his narrow shoulders not exactly built for the physicality of the game. In a league that looks for sure things, Reaves was far from one.Was it the money? The cars and the clothes? The women? The fame? This guy, though, approached Reaves with tattoos covering his arms. He held out a forearm, showed Reaves a blank patch of skin and asked him to sign there so he could get the signature tattooed to complete the sleeves.
Spencer is a Newark celebrity in his own right. He plays professionally in Germany, but that doesn’t carry the same weight like it used to.Growing up in a three-stop-sign town so small that the local pizza place is simply called “The Pizza Place,” it was either going to be sports or farm work, Wilkett told her boys.
“As an older brother, you always enjoy beating up your younger brother,” Spencer said. “He kept coming back for more even when he was just getting pummeled all the time. But he was always resilient.“He never shied away from competing in that sense even though I was beating the s— out of him.” “People were still proud of him,” Reaves’ father said. “But when people go … it’s nothing like when they’re here winning state championships.”“His scoring numbers stand out, because that’s what he needed to do in order for his high school team to be successful, but we think Austin is the complete package,” Marshall said upon Reaves’ signing.
“It was more about Austin working on his game then being the guy from Texas Tech this day and being the guy from Kansas,” Kruger said. “… This was more him just going and making plays. And he competed like crazy.”“In high school, I thought I was always going to be put to the side because of being from literally the middle of nowhere,” Reaves said. “But I remember Coach Krug … we got to talking and he was like, ‘I really think you could be like a first-rounder next year.
He could’ve come back for an extra year of eligibility because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but Reaves knew he was ready.It was Reaves’ redshirt year at Oklahoma, during one of the scrimmage periods where he was cooking the Sooners’ first-teamers, when he got the ball in transition and galloped down the court.He looked one way, faked and dropped the ball off in the other direction.
Following his senior season, when it became clear that Reaves was going to be picked in the second round, his agents sent a message to teams — if you draft him, be prepared to offer him a guaranteed deal.
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