Austin Reaves reveals what LeBron ‘ruined’ the day he left Lakers

Austin Reaves was somewhere in the middle of a golf round in Stateline, Nev., playing the American Century Championship, when the shape of the rest of his career changed. Word reached him that LeBron James had informed the Lakers he would not return for a 24th NBA season, closing a five-year partnership that has spanned nearly all of Reaves’ professional life. His first instinct was his phone. Reaves said he texted James to tell him he “was having a great day on the golf course until he ruined it,” speaking Wednesday with Edward Lewis of the California Post. It was…