Austin Reaves has been promoted to be…
Austin Reaves and the Los Angeles Lakers will hit the court against the Denver Nuggets at 10:00 PM ET on Monday in the 2024 NBA Playoffs. Let’s examine all of the prop bets available for Reaves in this contest, using stats and trends to help you make good predictions.
Reaves is averaging 15.9 points, 5.5
After beating the New Orleans Pelicans in the Play-In Tournament, the Los Angeles Lakers weren’t given any favors by the league as they were set to face the defending NBA champion Denver Nuggets in the first round of the NBA playoffs.
Every team in the Western Conference wanted to avoid playing the Nuggets, and for obvious reasons, with Nikola Jokic and company playing elite basketball right now and looking like the favorite to come out of the West.
But Reaves is throwing that 0-8 record against the Nuggets out of the window.
“I just want to win bad,” Reaves said. “They had our number.”
For Reaves, it’s a whole new different ballgame where the thin line between winning and losing will all boil down to execution, which the Nuggets have mastered since last season’s playoffs.You got to be really good the fourth quarter team because they execute so well in the fourth quarter,” Reaves said of the Nuggets. “They don’t make mistakes and anytime you make a mistake in the fourth quarter