With how weak the East right now, I will not be surprised if the Pistons will end up being at the 3rd seed or maybe the 2nd seed? I mean for me, the ceiling is high for this team especially their core players last season is still intact with the exception of Beasley being out for them, but they also have Robinson like you said which is a career 40% 3-pt shooter as well. Many are looking down at them for reasons I don't know, but Cunningham is becoming better and better every season, and with a good players surrounding him, the Pistons are back from playoff contention now.

Their first games ended up good, and I hope that they'll continue it. They already have the core players. They just need role players that will help them... or do they really need it at this moment? Maybe they just need some more experience I guess.

Reaves exploded for 51 points in a win against the Kings and that’s without LeBron and Luka. This young guy is the real deal, definitely not overrated, as long as the team keeps trusting him he’ll deliver. He’s always been consistent, even before, but he was stuck under the shadow of LeBron and Davis. Now, with Lebron and Luka (out), it’s great to see him step up again and lead the team to an important road win.

He’s very confident that the Lakers will give him a max contract, and it really shows in the way he’s been playing. So far, he’s one of the most consistent guys on the team, and he can perform well even if he is just a backup of from Luka and LeBron. There’s no reason for the Lakers not to keep him, since the team clearly improves with him on the floor.

LeBron will eventually retire, and when that time comes, it’ll be him and Luka carrying the team.
Who knows, this undrafted player might just end up building his own legacy in the NBA.

Either Lakers will keep him and let him a support for Luka as PG while Luka as forward or trade him with much better pieces needed by Lakers when Lebron retired.

But for now I think they will keep him since Bron is already on the retirement phase. I just don’t know about the max contract but surely he will get a good offer.

AR15 is good on regular season but somehow always becomes silent on the crucial games on playoffs.

It's no brainer, I think that they will keep Reaves for now, they've already traded D'Lo as their last PG. And it relegated Reaves to that position and it seems that he was a prefect keep as he drops 51 points and everyone was very happy for him.

And if ever they will trade him, it's going to be huge and probably it will also take another player.

So for now, I think he is safe as Rui is and just wait for either Lebron or Luka to come back.

I think LBJ has high chance to leave on Lakers rather than Reaves since for sure the Lake show would secure their future and its big gamble for them if they would think about trading Reaves to other team.

We have seen Reaves putting huge numbers to help Lakers to win against Kings today. Many of their fans said that they are fine even if Luka and LBJ is out since they have Reaves. I expect him to perform more better especially that he provably became the main man of their team now especially that Luka is possible to be out of their team for one week due to injury.

Exactly at 40 LeBron still sell tickets, and if they have to chose its still gonna LeBron, if i were reaves ill just play along, its just a matter of time until LeBron decides if he is going to stay or leave the lakers, if LeBron leaves Austin will be the second scorer of the team, and will be valuable, LeBron still garnering lots of haters and those haters are bringing views and tickets because those guys are badly want's LeBron to fail, also LeBron still are in top 10 in the league at 40, that's amazing.

Austin Reaves was on fire, scoring 51 points, grabbing 11 rebounds, and dishing out 9 assists. This statistic is likely a career high for him.
I've never seen or heard him score that many points before.
Doncic single-handedly kept the Los Angeles Lakers afloat in LeBron's absence.
Los Angeles earned its second win of the season with this victory.

As their third star, that’s exactly what he should do without Luka and LeBron. He wouldn’t score that much if Luka were playing. But damn, 41 out of 46 free throws for the Lakers, that’s a huge number. Sacramento had more threes, but the Lakers dominated in free throws and points in the paint. What do you guys think, does Reaves deserve a higher salary, like $20M+ a year? He may not be at a superstar level yet, but who knows, right? Even with AD and LeBron last year, he did well and managed to average 20.2 points. I think his average will be even higher this year.

I also think that the Kings should win this game against the Lakers because there are no Luka and Lebron. But Reaves turns into Luka scoring 51 huge big points. Maybe he had this one night that he was really unstoppable.

And his free throws, that's insane. And since we're still hot on the issue of gambling related in NBA. Just my thoughts that the referee might be into it and give Reaves that many fouls so that the Lakers will win, (this is not just speculation).