Lakers News: Austin Reaves Reveals Whether He Pays Attention To West Standings

The 45-35 Los Angeles Lakers could finish in a variety of playoff seeds this postseason. LA could theoretically finish as high as the Western Conference's sixth seed if it wins its next two games (and a few other teams lose theirs), or as low as the tenth seed.

Starting shooting guard Austin Reaves, speaking to reporters following a disappointing 134-120 loss Tuesday night against the team immediately below the Lakers in the West standings, the tenth-seeded Golden State Warriors (44-35), conceded that he does indeed pay attention to the conference standings as his club angles to avoid the play-in tournament bracket entirely.

"For me, I do," Austin Reaves said of watching the standings. "Obviously, you want to go up in the standings and put yourself in a good position to go make a run at this like we did last year. Nothing's really any different now. You just have to show up and, like I said before, we have to handle our business first and whatever happens around the league happens. But good things don't happen if we don't win regardless."

"That's the main focus is to go play a good brand of basketball, high-level IQ basketball. We like when we do that and we feel like we can beat anybody," he continued. "That's the main thing and, yeah, I'll be watching other games just cause, honestly, I'm a fan of basketball."

Last night, Reaves finished with a strong 22 points on 8-of-15 shooting from the field (4-of-7 from deep), seven rebounds and six assists.