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Austin Rivers Rumors
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Position: G
Born: 08/01/92
Height: 6-4 / 1.93
Weight:199 lbs. / 90.7 kg.
Salary: $13,155,324
Born: 08/01/92
Height: 6-4 / 1.93
Weight:199 lbs. / 90.7 kg.
Salary: $13,155,324
It could get REALLY awkward at the Rivers family dinner table during the holidays … ’cause Austin and Doc are prepping to face off in the playoffs — and the NBAer is lookin’ to embarrass his dad!! If the NBA postseason started right now, Houston and L.A. would be set up to play in the first round. But, that possibility didn’t prevent the 2 from breaking bread together at Craig’s on Wednesday. TMZ Sports spoke with the Rivers boys about the possible matchup … and Doc jokes he hopes Austin will take it easy on the Clips … but he ain’t holding his breath.
So, we had to ask Austin if the Rockets would let up on the Clips a little bit, given it’s his papa on the other side … and uh, nope. “Absolutely not. Bragging rights for the household, man. He’s done enough in his career … it’s my turn to win something.” Of course, things could change between now and the playoffs … but PLEASE let this happen.
Jonathan Feigen: Expect Kenneth Faried and Austin Rivers to return to the Rockets rotation today vs. Pelicans after sitting out on Friday. D’Antoni said wants to keep everyone sharp, but also still determining his nine-man post-season rotation.
The verdict is in. Cleveland doesn’t rock. In fact, Cleveland sucks, according to Warriors guard Quinn Cook and Rockets guard Austin Rivers. Why? “My family is there, they’re calling me all the time, it’s muggy and it’s cold,” Cook told Warriors sideline reporter Kerith Burke and Rivers on The Uninterrupted Road Trippin’ podcast.
Why does Rivers hate Cleveland? “It’s just always freezing there,” Rivers said. “And if you’re there a day in between, which teams don’t even do anymore, like you guys are staying here [in Houston] right now so you guys don’t have to go to OKC for two days. There’s nothing to do. What do you do?”
College teammate Austin Rivers watched him in the G League, and so did LeBron James after a training camp together in Cleveland. “That doesn’t happen, and those guys kept my confidence [up],” Cook told Rivers and Warriors sideline reporter Kerith Burke on The Uninterrupted Road Trippin’ Podcast. “I knew the work I put in. And growing up, I always had confidence in myself. I was a McDonald’s All-American. I was All-American in college. I just had to take a different route, and I appreciated it.”
