If Austin Reaves was included in the Luka trade, would that have actually been a decent trade?

Austin Reaves has been having an incredible start to the season so far. I think dude is averaging like 29 ppg on 68% TS?

Hear me out:

In another universe, if Nico got Austin as well in the Luka trade, and we assume that this isn't some linsanity run by AR and that this is truly who he is, and we also assume that they still somehow in the lottery and still somehow got Cooper Flagg.

Would the Luka trade actually have had, dare I say, a decent return?

Kyrie, Austin Reaves, AD, Flagg, Klay, Washington, Gafford, Lively (if he's still alive in this universe), etc etc. Sure it's not the boat load of picks that everyone expected, but I don't think this is as bad of a return as people might think. Obviously this didn't happen, and Nico instead got a half-broken AD and lucked into the first overall pick, but it's still interesting to think about.

Posted Dec 7, 2025, 7:19 AM UTC

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