[外電] Austin Reaves Draft Night Story

Reaves told the draft night story during an appearance on his summer league teammate Vic Law’s podcast, “94 & More”

The night before, the Lakers had called, and said if for some reason I go undrafted, that they wanted to be the first place that said ‘hey, we’ve got a tw
o-way for you.’ And so going into the draft we knew that I was gonna have a two-way contract in L.A., so we were in a good place with contract stuff and things like that.

-選秀夜前夕，湖人告訴我如果基於某些因素你落選了，我們希望這裡是你優先考量的地方，並說：「我們已經為你留了一個雙向位置」，所以在選秀進行時我已經知道至少有了湖人的雙向合約。

“So going into the draft we didn’t really press. I think Detroit called at l
ike 41 or 42 (Editor’s Note: The Pistons had the 42nd pick), whichever pick they had, and were like ‘we’ll take him on a two-way,’ and it was really jus
t more a situation where I wanted to be where we saw the best fit.”

Reaves and his agent clearly felt like that spot was Los Angeles (and not Detroit), which is why they told the Pistons not to draft him, and he promptly signed a two-way deal with the Lakers after the conclusion of the draft.

-因此選秀會時，我並沒有感受太多壓力，到了42順位時，活塞告訴我的團隊他們要選我，但可能給我的也是雙向合約，在評估適合程度後，我的經紀人告知活塞不要選我，隨後我們立即與湖人簽下雙向合約。

So far, their gamble is looking pretty smart, as Reaves impressed enough overthe totality of summer league and the offseason to earn a promotion from a two-way deal to the team’s 14th guaranteed contract. By virtue of that two-year
contract, he will — much like Alex Caruso did with the Lakers before him — h
ave a chance to hit free agency and cash in earlier in his NBA lifecycle thana drafted player who played well would.

-目前為止，這場賭注看起來非常聰明，從夏季聯賽開始Reaves 就相當令人驚艷，並且為自己爭取到從雙向合約被拔擢成為大名單第14人的正式合約、一筆兩年合約，這個操作，就有些像之前湖人對於Caruso的操盤一樣，而Reaves 未來也有機會在生涯初期就能於自由市場爭取更多薪資、甚至比被選到的球員還要好。

Reaves and his representation clearly believed he could show enough to make up for any financial risk they took by going undrafted, and so far that faith has been rewarded with one guaranteed contract already. If Reaves can continue to impress as his career continues, their choice will look better and better in retrospect.

Reaves 與經紀團隊相信他的實力足以打出成績，以彌補刻意落選這個冒險所可能導致的損失，目前為止這樣的自信確實得到報酬，他贏得了正式合約，如果Reaves 能持續在生涯中打出亮眼表現，這個刻意落選的決定將會看起來更加明智、且成為未來能夠加以回顧的案例。

補充一些今日賽後訪問：

LeBron James on Austin Reaves: "The kid is pretty good and we're happy to have him here."

-這小子真的很讚，很開心我們能擁有他。

Frank Vogel on Austin Reaves: "He's done enough to earn my trust."

-還不確定是否讓Reaves 進輪換，但他確實贏得我的信任了。

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簡單翻譯一下，有誤歡迎指正或補充。

球探慧眼、佩總給合約也毫不猶豫，選前就出手AR，雖然菜鳥開季應該很難在輪替，但單就實力覺得AR是有資格進二陣的，能投能控防守判斷佳、小卡禿既視感，期待未來身體進化後Reaves的成長～～

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