https://youtu.be/xRuKiYgq2Ww “Dear Diary, Today before the game Coach Malone said we have to be locked in and play hard. When he said locked in I got really scared that he would lock me in a closet since sometimes that’s what Daddy would do to me when I was being a bad boy. I tried really…
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Austin Rivers 25 Points Full Highlights (5/5/2021)
https://youtu.be/gyjtWadVQa8 “Dear Diary, Being an NBA player is hard and scary. Playing basketball is the easy part, but I don’t get why teams always trade me. I told Dad that teams shouldn’t trade me because I’m good at basketball, but he said Austin sometimes teams have to make trades to improve their cap situation. I…
Read MoreAustin Rivers Career High 41 Points Full Highlights (8/9/2020)
“Dear Diary, When I found out that we would all be playing basketball in Orlando for a long time, without ever having to leave, I was really really excited. Orlando is my favorite place in the whole world because of the theme parks and fun rides and the Disney characters walking around everywhere! When I…
Read MoreAustin Rivers 23 Points Full Highlights (2/26/2020)
The positions of “first banana” and “second banana” on offense for the Rockets are well accounted for. James Harden and Russell Westbrook might switch the titles between them depending on who’s feeling hot, but there’s no debating that those are the two main dudes when it comes to scoring the ball. But then the question…
Read MoreAustin Rivers 21 Points Full Highlights (1/27/2020)
“Dear Diary, Today before the game coach Mike came up to me and told me that I would have to be a “fokill point” of the team because James and Russ weren’t playing. I wanted to ask him what that meant but I didn’t want to look stupid, so I just nodded really serious and…
Read MoreAustin Rivers 19 Points Full Highlights (12/3/2019)
Austin Rivers scored all 19 of his points tonight before another Rockets bench player even scored one. Shout out to Tyson Chandler for getting a single bucket at the end of the third quarter. It turns out that from the rest of the bench, Chris Clemons can only score in garbage time, Gary Clark can’t…
Read MoreAustin Rivers 19 Points Full Highlights (11/16/2019)
“Dear Diary, Things have been different since the Rockets traded Chris for Russell. When I found out that stupid baby Chris was going to play somewhere else, I was real happy. Chris was never any fun and coach Mike always said he was the starter even when I told him that I wanted to be…
Read MoreAustin Rivers 25 Points Full Highlights (1/13/2019)
“Dear Diary, Today we got to play in Orlando where I grew up! When I was little I went to Disney World all the time with my babysitter. It was so much fun meeting all the Disney characters like Goofy and Cinderella and Mickey. The best part is they remembered me every time I went,…
Read MoreAustin Rivers 21 Points Full Highlights (1/5/2019)
“Dear Diary, Today after we lost to the Blazers, coach Mike was real angry with us. He said we need to “step up” because James can’t win the game all by himself. Then he said “Austin stepped up but nobody else did” and that made me happy even though he said it an angry way….
Read MoreAustin Rivers 18 Points Full Highlights (1/3/2019)
“Dear Diary, Trades are scary when Daddy’s not around to tell you that it will all be fine. When I got traded to Phoenix verybody was sending me text messages and it was too much so I went into the bathroom and cried even though there was a part of me that was happy because…
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