There may be no clearer evidence a player has made it then when divisiveness begins to swirl around their name.
Fresh off his sophomore season and helping the Lakers reach the Western Conference Finals, Austin Reaves may be the proof to this theory, as he has already complied his fare share of fans and detractors around the basketball stratosphere.
After going undrafted, Reaves’ face is now plastered on billboards around Los Angeles, is a member of team USA, and inked a multi-million dollar contract this summer. In nearly every sense, Reaves has made it, and cemented himself as one of the league’s budding young stars in the process.