Popular American basketball player Austin Reaves has been playing for the Los Angeles Lakers for a while now. Reaves earlier joined the team as an undrafted free agent.
Austin re-signed with the Los Angeles Lakers earlier this year and is reportedly going to be in a four-year contract reportedly worth a whopping $ 56 million! Reaves has also been making headlines after being a part of the US National Team for the 2023 FIBA World Cup.
While Austin Reaves is displaying impressive sportsmanship qualities on the basketball court, the young athlete recently sparked some major dating rumors with one of the most popular singers of all time! These rumors have been fuelled by a shocking tweet by taking social media by storm! Who is the mystery woman? Let us find out who Austin Reaves is dating in 2023.
Who Is Austin Reaves Dating In 2023?
It has been reported that Austin Reaves is dating his high school sweetheart, Jenna Barber. While Reaves has been extremely tight-lipped about his personal life, it has been revealed that both Austin and Henna attended Cedar Ridge High School, where their paths first crossed, and then the two eventually developed a close bond that might have bloomed into a romantic connection.
Austin Reaves With Jenna Barber (Credits: TMSPN)
Despite being notoriously private about the rumored relationship, Jenna has earlier marked their first anniversary with an adorable collage of pictures of the pair and even tagged Austin. The two have been inseparable for a long while as they also survived a long-distance relationship when Austin played college basketball at Wichita State and later played at Oklahoma.
Not only that, but Jenna Barber has been spotted cheering for her beau on several games. Lakers guard Austin Reaves’ girlfriend was recently seen enjoying the team’s playoff run as well. Barber attended the series with Reaves’ mother, Nicole Wilkett, as Jenna was seen wearing a Lakers letterman jacket along with Jordan brand sneakers. Jenna Barber has turned heads during her appearance during the matches.
Is Austin Reaves Dating Taylor Swift?
Austin Reaves recently made headlines after his name was romantically linked with singing sensation Taylor Swift! There has been a recent rumor that involves the popular Los Angeles Lakers guard and Taylor Swift. These rumors were further fuelled after a media tabloid revealed that a Los Angeles Clippers employee initially made up the story in the first place.
This rumor later became a tweet that claimed that the two were spotted together at a bar! The tweet went viral in no time and garnered a whopping 4.4 million views! However, these dating rumours are not true after all which has further been confirmed by Reaves himself in an early podcast interview, where he stated that he has never met Taylor Swift and has neither ever talked to her.
Austin noted that the rumor was rather funny when he was asked about the ongoing dating rumors once again. The athlete explained that everyone who knows him knows that he doesn’t go out, and so the funniest part about the rumor was about him being at a bar.
LeBron James Praises Austin Reaves!
Iconic athlete LeBron James recently showered Austin Reaves with praises as he stated in a recently held post-game press conference that he is happy to be on the side with AR while calling him one of his favorite guys!
Austin Reaves And Le Bron James (Credits: Sports Illustrated)
Austin Reaves has recently opened up about Team USA’s loss to Lithuania in the FIBA World Cup, as he admitted that while going into the game, they knew that they were a confident club and were well aware that they were capable of beating them.
Head coach Steve Kerr has also stated that he hopes this loss becomes a wake-up call for the players as he further explained how if one eases into a game like they did and a team starts carving them up, that is where the team gets their confidence.
