{"id":18853,"date":"2023-04-28T17:16:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T17:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/lebron-james-on-austin-reaves-i-like-high-basketball-iq-guys\/"},"modified":"2023-04-28T17:16:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T17:16:43","slug":"lebron-james-on-austin-reaves-i-like-high-basketball-iq-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/lebron-james-on-austin-reaves-i-like-high-basketball-iq-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James on Austin Reaves: &#8220;I like high basketball IQ guys&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"870\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/ar-696x870.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Austin Reaves\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lakers\/status\/1636018162121555973\/photo\/1\">Los Angeles Lakers\/Twitter<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lakers sophomore Austin Reaves not only has become a key player for the team, but also earned the respect of his superstar teammate.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old shooting guard who is a starter and one of the main contributors for the Purple and Gold in the playoffs. A large part of his success is his basketball IQ. That is what LeBron James likes in other players.<\/p>\n<p>Via Dave McMenamin of ESPN:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t give a f\u2014 about, like, athleticism; how great you can shoot the ball; how high you can jump; how fast you can run,\u201d James tells ESPN as he files out of the arena after Reaves. \u201cI like high basketball IQ guys. Obviously, you got to have that s\u2014 to win a championship. You got to have guys that can do extraordinary s\u2014. But like, I\u2019ve always had a liking to guys that just know how to play the f\u2014ing game of basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reaves is averaging 17.6 points, 5.2 rebounds and 4.4 assists in 37 minutes per game in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Los Angeles Lakers\/Twitter Lakers sophomore Austin Reaves not only has become a key player for the team, but also earned the respect of his superstar teammate. The 24-year-old shooting guard who is a starter and one of the main contributors for the Purple and Gold in the playoffs. A large part of his success<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[992,255,203,202,993],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18855,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18853\/revisions\/18855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}