Video: Austin Rivers Goes OFF for 42 Points

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• Allenp Posted: Dec.21 at 12:13 pm
  The pull up is ridiculous. As is the pull back.

• Donte Posted: Dec.21 at 12:15 pm
  smh……NBA ready game period they need to get rid of that rule this guy drops 40 on any giving day anytime i have seem him play, even when he was a freshman he couldnt be stoped IQ is of the charts he is also a really good passer

• Riggs Posted: Dec.21 at 12:32 pm
  it would be funny if the celtics draft him.

• Run'n'Gun219 Posted: Dec.21 at 12:38 pm
  HE LOVES THAT JAB STEP… AND NO THEY SHOULD NOT GET RID OF THE AGE LIMIT RULE. IT HELPS THE KIDS GAME AS WELL AS THE NBA PRODUCT. IF NOT WE WOULD HAVE ALL THESE YOUNSTER GETTING DRAFTED THEN NOT AMOUNTTING TO ANYTHING IN THE l. THIS WAY EVEN IF THEY DONT MAKE IT TO THE NBA THEY HAVE THERE SCHOLARSHIP FOR EDUCATION TO FALL BACK ON. DONT YOU THINK DORRELL WRITE, MONTA ELLIS, ANDREW BYNUM, MARTELL WEBSTER,ETC., WOULD HAVE WENT TO COLLEGE AND MATURED A LIL BITE BEFORE COMING TO THE LEAUGE

• SMK Posted: Dec.21 at 1:03 pm
  Ouch. Between the kid defending Rivers and Brett Favre, Monday was a bad night to be wearing #4.

• Coney Islander Posted: Dec.21 at 1:04 pm
  @ Riggs,He’s a lottery pick, so unless the Celtics crash and burn for the next year or so thats unlikely. Maybe a trade? lol
  @ Run’n'Gun219 That age limit is a crime, period. It falls under age discrimination. If these kids are good enough at 18 to go jump on grenades and kill people in the military who is the NBA to deny them a living? If they’re not good enough after their rookie contract is up bid them farewell. Some will make it, some won’t, so is life. This argument holds no water, the two best players in the NBA are from Lower Marion HIGHSCHOOL and St Vincent/ St Mary HIGHSCHOOL. What would Kobe and LeBron have done in college except get hurt?

• Arek Posted: Dec.21 at 1:09 pm
  Dude is ridiculous, he already has the city of palms mvp award wrapped up in a christmas gift basket

• twinparadox Posted: Dec.21 at 1:15 pm
  somebody forgot to not press caps lock… come on? degrees to fall back on? One-and-dones do not get a degree. If a kid thinks he is ready, and he needs the money he should jump. I have no stats to back this up…but i’m guessing there are as much busts as one-and-dones as high school draftees. And just take a look at some of the greatest players of this era, James, Kobe, Dwight, KG? Short summary…I just don’t want Rivers to go to Duke. LOL

• Run'n'Gun219 Posted: Dec.21 at 1:24 pm
  Coney Island- Those are 2 out of a hundread high school ballers. For every Kobe, Lebron, Amare,KG there are the Kwame Browns, Jonathan Benders, Sabastian Telfairs, Eddie Currys, Desagana Diops. i could go on and on. and the whole army thing is over blown. even if they sign upo to go to the army, they still have to go to basic training and all type of other training before they go to war, they just dont sign up and go fight. and college is the training ball players need before going to the nba. for the training and body and mind development. HS is not nba or even college ball, the game is different.Its not the same. And when Kobe came right to the leauge, he was on the bench behind Eddie Jones- he worked on his game and then he became the kobe we see today. and lebron was given the league never seen anything like it

• Run'n'Gun219 Posted: Dec.21 at 1:29 pm
  hey twinparadox- blow me.. And i said if they dont make it to the league. If you are a one and done thats all good. But what if you are one of these kids banking on getting drafted then u dont. what are u gonna due then. You cant go paly in college. I dont see whts the differece between 1 year of getting better, and being drafted out of high school and sitting on the bench not even playing in the nba that first year.

• PapaBearATL Posted: Dec.21 at 1:35 pm
  @Coney Islander: Lebron might have learned some post moves and maybe how to get past a zone defense? Kobe may have learned to become a team player earlier in his career? There are pro’s and con’s to each scenario, I doubt Doc’s kid is hurting for cash so a NCAA chip should be his next goal, give him a chance to put on some NBA size to go with his NBA game.

• rudy Posted: Dec.21 at 1:55 pm
  rivers is a straight monster.

• James Posted: Dec.21 at 2:06 pm
  Seen a bunch of his vids and the kid is sick but this is the first time i’ve ever seen him finish with his left hand

• The Philosopher Posted: Dec.21 at 2:09 pm
  He like… has no left hand.
  At all.
  But, that is nit picking.

• The Philosopher Posted: Dec.21 at 2:09 pm
  Damn, James^.
  You got me.

• Ryne Nelson Posted: Dec.21 at 2:46 pm
  Complete as they come in HS. That left will come around next season at Duke.

• The Philosopher Posted: Dec.21 at 2:47 pm
  ^I believe you.
  He is the truth…

• Allenp Posted: Dec.21 at 2:58 pm
  Actually, the number of successful pro players from high school far outnumbers the number of failures.
  By successful, I mean they continue to collect an NBA pay check, which after all is the point of players entering the draft. Sure, everybody wants to be a star, but only a few poeple make it. And I would wager that if you look at things historically, drafting a high schooler is far more likely to net you a superstar than drafting a four year player.
  Who wants to take that bet?

• nbk Posted: Dec.21 at 3:30 pm
  Allen if someone takes that bet, put as much money on it as you possibly can. Its not even close how much more successful HS to the Pros guys are over college guys. Even compared to he ones that stay in college just two years.
  ___________________________________________ My question is about Austin, can he run an offense without being the primary scorer?

• Russ M Posted: Dec.21 at 3:38 pm
  RunNgun219: You mention people like Telfair and Kwame Brown as if they’re some type of failures. These guys are MULTI-millionaires! They make more money per game then most people make a yr! In the game of life, these guys are big-time success stories.

• OneStep Posted: Dec.21 at 3:39 pm
  On a technical note he needs to put some work into pointing his shooting elbow more towards the basket. He’ll have some rough nights shooting as a result of where it’s at right now. Look at Kobe’s technique at a similar age and it becomes even more obvious. Then again he’s got more to work with than say Josh Childress or Shawn Marion.

• Cizzo Posted: Dec.21 at 3:43 pm
  Awesome Austin!!!!!!! and yall are right, he never goes left, but stop him if you can…..

• WangChung Posted: Dec.21 at 3:52 pm
  This is what’s supposed to happen when coaches have kids.

• drdunkenstein Posted: Dec.21 at 3:59 pm
  Can’t wait to see him wreck the ACC at Duke next year. Irving needs to stay next year too… feel sorry for the competition. Go Duke!

• rudy Posted: Dec.21 at 4:52 pm
  I think one of the reasons guys straight out of hs collect checks is because somebody is always holding out hope that maybe they can be the Kobe or Lebron they were originally hyped up as. Where as guys outta college have that stigma of “what you see is what you get”, especially with college Juniors and Seniors.

• nbk Posted: Dec.21 at 5:47 pm
  no its literally because guys out straight out of High School are generally much better prospects, and produce better numbers throughout their career then guys that went to college. For instance, from 2000-2010 you could say the best players over that 10 year span from the United States are, Tim Duncan, Kobe Bryant, Tracy McGrady, LeBron James, Dwight Howard, Kevin Garnett, Allen Iverson, Jason Kidd. Just a for example – 5 of those 7 came straight outta high school. And one of them could have been the number one pick 5 straight years (Tim Duncan) but promised his family he would graduate.

• Michael Posted: Dec.21 at 6:11 pm
  this kid is good but does anyone else think his shot is a bit ugly?

• Jukai Posted: Dec.21 at 6:26 pm
  Allen: I would not want to take that bet because your definition of success is wack. By your definition, Kwame Brown was successful.
  Unless you meant the bet was that, ‘historically’ guys who came out of high school are more likely to be stars than four year guys… and then I’d like to take that bet. You can have Kobe, Lebron, Ganett, Malone, Amare….
  I’ll take Kareem, Chamberlain, Russell, Robertson, West, Walton, Bird, Barry, Stockton, McHale, Archibald, Ewing, Robinson, Miller, and Tim Duncan.

• LAKERSLEGEND Posted: Dec.21 at 8:42 pm
  Ugliest shot since Shawn Marion but other than that hes ight and they shud definetly get rid of the age limit rule.

• T-Money Posted: Dec.21 at 11:36 pm
  Jukai: Would Kwame Brown be more successful if he had gone to UNC? Of course not. Actually, he would have lost money. And would still suck now.

• roybot Posted: Dec.21 at 11:47 pm
  wouldnt be surprised if Doc had let him scrimmage with the Celtics before

• ImaSOBER Posted: Dec.22 at 12:06 am
  You should of just partnered up with hoopmixtape. ballislife doesn’t go out farther than the westcoast and misses a lot of good players

• ENDSwing Posted: Dec.22 at 12:53 am
  Lets Not forget Winter Park High is in Orlando. Double O stand up…

• CP9 Posted: Dec.22 at 6:15 am
  The Kid has an insane ability for pullups and a natural with crossovers.
  No doubt gonna be an elite PG

• davidR Posted: Dec.22 at 8:31 am
  jukai, check again.
  allen defined successful as earning a check, and continuing to earn one.
  kwame brown is still in the league making money. so yea, he is successful

• rayray Posted: Dec.22 at 11:07 am
  He’s not NBA ready but he might be one day. Realisticly he’ll catch beat downs trying those moves in the NBA

• jdsmallz Posted: Dec.22 at 11:42 am
  kid is crazy.The age rule eitheir they have one or make go more than a year.hurts college programs recruit too good then they one year then out and its a waste of a scholarship.But i think it should be atleast 2 if your gonna have the rule to stop mistakes like telfair awsome in highschool jump to nba just not ready.college would of helped his game

• KennyD Posted: Dec.22 at 1:13 pm
  He would not make those in the NBA thats for sure. But it does show he has talent and is ready to be worked on. And it would be funny if Doc left and the Celtics drafted him.

• dfrance21 Posted: Dec.22 at 1:21 pm
  @Allenp Is that bet HS players vs. 4 year college players? Or HS players vs. just dudes that went to college? Also are we measuring superstars, or your definition of success? I’d be willing to wager that historically there have been more 4yr college players in the NBA continually collecting a check than there have been HS players. The HS vs. college debate is about as stupid as comparing players from different eras. Its 99% specualation and opinion.

• dfrance21 Posted: Dec.22 at 1:22 pm
  @Allenp Is that bet HS players vs. 4 year college players? Or HS players vs. just dudes that went to college? Also are we measuring superstars, or your definition of success? I’d be willing to wager that historically there have been more 4yr college players in the NBA continually collecting a check than there have been HS players. The HS vs. college debate is about as stupid as comparing players from different eras. Its 99% speculation and opinion.